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Are you passionate about the environment? We want to hear from you! What are you doing in your school or local community to make a difference? We’re looking for 5 young readers to be part of the Double Helix sustainability squad. You can inspire other young Australians by sharing your story in our magazine.

These bath bombs are crafted mini models of your favourite planets! We promise they’ll smell better than Uranus.

Stars, telescopes, action! Can you catch the shooting star and get a 5/5 on this space quiz?

Two tubes, both the same weight and the same size, and yet slightly different. Can you guess which one will win the rolling race? Safety: This activity uses a sharp scalpel or scissors to cut a cardboard tube. Ask an adult to help.

When we look at a very bright object and then look away from it, why do we still see the object’s outline?

We’re celebrating recycling in this quiz! Can you salvage a passing score, or will you end up in the garbage?

Difficulty: Tricky There are 4 houses that stand in a row. One family lives in each house. The O’Connells live next door to the Taos, but they don’t live next door to the Sosas. The Prasads don’t live next door to the Sosas. Who lives next door to the Prasads?

Back in the time of the dinosaurs, Australia was just one small part of a much bigger continent. Can you piece together the ancient supercontinent, Gondwana?

Have you heard of continental drift? The ground under your very feet is moving! Here in Australia, we’re moving about 7 centimetres north every year. In a few million years, we could run into Southeast Asia. But what about the far future, 300 million years away?

Difficulty: Extreme! Nguyệt keeps a bread dough in her fridge. She tends to it so that every day it doubles in size, and then every morning, she cuts off enough dough to make one loaf of bread for her breakfast.