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On 11 July, Australian scientists made a super-fast connection with a satellite. This feat of engineering required the team to aim a laser up in space at a receiver built into the back of a ute.

Blue plus yellow equals green, right? Not always! In this experiment, you can pull off a colourful magic trick made possible by water density and temperature.

These grid-based logic problems require Sherlock-like deduction! We’ll take you through the basics of solving these tricky word puzzles.

Lavonne is a security guard who has to walk around the outside of an L-shaped building. She knows the length of the longest sides, 200 metres and 140 metres. She also knows the shape of the building and that each of the angles are 90 degrees. What is the building’s perimeter?

Thanks to archaeology, we’re traveling back in time! Do you know your Egypt arti-facts or will you end up neck deep in de-Nile?

Do you ever get a stiff neck from doing assignments? Do your thumbs ever get sore after playing lots of video games? Sitting in the same position or doing the same task over and over can cause injuries and even change your bones! And we just found out that this has been going on for a very, very long time.

One day, Rumi’s chess club coach asks her, “how many squares are on a chess board?” Rumi replies, “That’s easy, the board is 8 by 8, so there are 64 squares!” Her coach smiles, “What about the larger squares made up of smaller squares? The board is an 8 by 8 square after all!” How many squares are on a chess board?

Mamutjitji Story is a new free app that links science with local knowledges belonging to the Ngalia Western Desert Aboriginal People. The story features an unusual insect called an antlion in English and Mamutjitji in Ngalia.

Highlighters are so bright that you’d think their ink lasts forever. Make it disappear with a simple citrus fruit!

Scientists are going all out to measure both the miniscule and the immense! This quiz is inspired by the massive scientific equipment built around the globe. Go BIG or go home!