David Darling travels through space and time to find the largest, smallest, stickiest, loudest, quietest, fastest, slowest, heaviest and brightest? What?s the brightest light on Earth? The coldest corner of the universe? The blackest material ever made? The most poisonous substance in nature? ?You will learn something new in every chapter, on every page and probably in every paragraph. Hugely entertaining.? Kit Yates, author of The Maths of Life and Death Ka-boom! probes extremes of size and speed, depth and density, and reveals the stickiest, sweetest, smelliest and nastiest substances known to science.