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From the beginning of the universe to your dinner plate, explore all sorts of science trivia in this quiz.

Here’s a fizzy treat for your mouth! But this sherbet recipe has a mathematical trick. You can use it to make as much or as little as you like. Keeping the ingredients in proportion in this way is known as scaling.

Difficulty: Tricky Dennis and Richard went on a tour of a chocolate factory. At the end of the tour, they went to the reject room, where the tour guide gave Dennis a strange block of chocolate.

Article updated 2 April 2020 In the fight against the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), it’s important to move fast. Some of the world’s best scientists are looking for a vaccine, a drug that teaches your body how to fight an infection before you even get it. However, making a new vaccine for coronavirus is a […]

This quiz explores one of our most enigmatic senses. Do have the answers you need to taste victory?

If you’re in the desert on a hot day, you might see things that aren’t really there. But that’s not the only way to see a mirage – you can also see them in a glass of sugary water!

Difficulty: Tricky Chloe is researching kiwifruit. Kiwi plants are unusual compared to many plants, as they’re either male or female. To make a kiwifruit, you need pollen from a male plant to fertilise a flower on a female plant.

Diamonds are amazing crystals. A repeating pattern of pure carbon atoms, they’re famous for being the hardest substance in the world. Yet, an Australian team of scientists have just managed to bend diamonds. So how did they do it?

People record numbers in lots of different ways. This method was used by the Inca people and many others who lived near the Andes Mountains of South America.

Difficulty: Taxing Darryl wants to ride his donkey from Alphaville to Betatown. The donkey is always hungry and will only walk if Daryl keeps feeding her apples.