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An adventurous snail decides to climb up a wall to the roof of a school. The snail can climb up 3 metres in a day but slides back down 2 metres at night! If the school is 12 metres tall, how many days will it take the snail to reach the roof?

Cosmos Magazine has partnered with Double Helix to publish a free eBook that takes kids aged 8 to 12 on a dive into the science of our oceans. The eBook includes stories about turtles, wonky holes and undersea cables, as well as experiments to do at home.

Archaeologists from John Hopkins University have recently discovered what may be the world’s oldest alphabet in Syria, offering new insights into the origins of written language.

What’s all this buzz about quantum? Maybe you’ve heard it in science class or maybe in a sci-fi movie! No matter where you’ve come across it, you probably know it’s a bit strange, maybe confusing but also possibly an important part of the future. And all these things are true!

Impress your friends and family with this floating image – a modern take on an old-timey magic trick.

CSIRO scientists have found a species of fish to add to Australian aquaculture and, hopefully, Aussie diets. Trachinotus anak, known as the pompano, oyster pompano, giant oystercracker or dart, is a white-flesh fish endemic to northern Australia, and CSIRO’s top choice for farming.

The 1980 Mount St Helens eruption in the USA led to a surprising discovery. The eruption killed 57 people and destroyed 350 km2 of forest. In an effort to restore the ecosystem of the plains, in 1983, scientists captured 2 wild gophers, placing each into a small, fenced off area on the volcanic plain. The gophers dug for twenty-four hours before the scientists removed them. A new study published in 2024 shows the long-lasting effects the gophers had on the ecosystem.

This Valentine’s Day, we’re giving you our heartiest quiz yet! Can you beat these five questions or will the pressure be too much?

Sam arrives first to her after school Maths Club meeting. She discovers that her teacher has left a basket of Valentine’s Day chocolates. It comes with the instructions to share the chocolate evenly among the six students in the club… but Sam eats a few chocolates before anyone notices!

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, its… a drone named SUPER! Engineers from Hong Kong have just designed a drone that can zoom through forests at night without hitting any trees or branches. This owl-like ability is quite the feat! How did the engineers do it?