During Wysing Arts Centre’s Year of the Improbable, 2010, artist Julie Myers gathered a large number of improbable questions from local children, such as where does the sky end and space begin? to why does a boomerang come back? As part of this year’s Cambridge Science Festival, Julie will be asking these questions, and gathering others, to be answered by leading scientists from the University of Cambridge.

Questions and answers will initially be made public on a project web site: www.improbablethinking.org and it is hoped that a book of children’s ‘improbable questions’ will also be created.