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You might think you know your height, but this activity might change your mind. How tall are you, really?

Are you a magician? Or a mathematician! Guess someone’s number with this cool trick.

On 2 March this year, two long-term International Space Station residents returned to Earth. Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko both spent 342 days in space. Their year-long mission included space walks and Earth photography. But the most important experiment was on themselves. How does a person react to a year in space?

Learn about latitude, and find out where exactly on the Earth you are!

Grab some dominos and Blu-tack, then make a puzzling sliding block puzzle!

Feel like a biscuit? This recipe will make exactly one tasty piece of shortbread.

Turn an old copy of Guess Who into a game with a mathematical twist!

When you’re installing solar panels, it’s important to point them at the Sun. But the Sun isn’t always in the same place – it moves across the sky over the course of a day. If you can aim the panels towards the Sun as it moves, they can produce up to 40 per cent more power […]

Imagine this game: you and a stranger are sitting in front of a machine. The machine has two piles of lollies. There’s one pile for you and one for your partner. You have two handles. Pull the green handle and you both get lollies. Pull the red one and no one gets anything.

The Australian National Maritime Museum is home to our very own HMB Endeavour. This recreation of Captain Cook’s ship hosts thousands of visitors every year. But there are many more people who aren’t able to pay a visit. So a team from the CSIRO stepped in to help.