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What a year of activity! In 2023, we posted 25 hands-on STEM activities. Here are 5 of the most popular posts.

Marsupials! Australia is famous for these incredible animals, and we believe you are fully koala-fied to have this quiz in the bag, er, pouch.

Scientists have been blown away by a recent detection of a gamma-ray burst (GRB), a type of strong cosmic explosion.

Bee-come a bee hero and create crucial habitat for your local native bees. Your garden will be all abuzz!

Here’s a fun paper toy that can help you pick a future job. Have a go with our STEM career chatterbox! There are no wrong answers, only positive role models.

Finding one meteorite usually requires researchers to walk at least a few million square metres. Seamus Anderson from Curtin University has a way to speed up his meteorite hunts.

Friends can help you out during difficult times. Plants can do the same for each other. In this activity, find out how growing different plants together can help defend against garden pests— chemical spray free!

We promise to tell no tall tales, but this science quiz will have you sitting up straighter. Can you reach the 5/5 mark?  

There are more than 28 million cattle in Australia that produce over 280 million cow poos a day. That’s a lot of poo to clean up! So CSIRO scientists asked nature’s best poo recyclers for help.

With Halloween around the corner and spooky season in full force, here are 5 ocean animals that are always ready to go trick-or-treating.