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  • How to make ice levitate
    Article, Student Activity & Video & Film

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    How to make ice levitate

    Physical SciencesChemical SciencesSTEMTechnology

    Three-phase Leidenfrost effect opens new understanding of heat transfer. This resource is best suited to Year 8 and 10 Physics...

    Years 8 & 10
  • When the Mattress King met the Queen of Waste
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    When the Mattress King met the Queen of Waste

    Chemical SciencesEarth SciencesSTEM

    You’re likely to have spotted an old mattress slumbering by the roadside, and they’re an environmental nightmare. Here are two...

    Years 7 & 10
  • How was the asteroid belt formed?
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    How was the asteroid belt formed?

    Chemical SciencesPhysical SciencesSpace SciencesSTEM

    Travel back 4.6 billion years, to the beginning of the solar system, to learn how the asteroid belt was formed....

    Years 7-8 & 10
  • How does 3D printing work?
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    How does 3D printing work?

    TechnologyChemical SciencesSTEM

    Additive manufacturing has extended past manufacturing and into prototyping, fashion and even medicine. Learn about the different 3D printing devices...

    Years 8 & 10
  • COSMOS Magazine: Toothpaste Truths: the chemistry of toothpaste
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    COSMOS Magazine: Toothpaste Truths: the chemistry of toothpaste

    Chemical SciencesSTEM

    What goes into the pea-sized splotch of brush-additive paste with which (most of us) start and end each day? Ellen...

    Years 5 & 8-10
  • Exploring history through a 2000-year ice core
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    Exploring history through a 2000-year ice core

    Antarctic ScienceChemical SciencesEarth SciencesSTEM

    Antarctic scientists have analysed a 2000-year ice core record to find the link between Australian drought and greenhouse gases. Learn...

    Years 8 & 10
  • Why does cold air go down and hot air go up?
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    Why does cold air go down and hot air go up?

    Chemical SciencesEarth SciencesPhysical SciencesSTEM

    Does cold air go down because the earth’s core is made out of magma and does hot air go up...

    Years 5, 8 & 10-12
  • How to grow plants on Mars
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    How to grow plants on Mars

    Biological SciencesChemical SciencesSpace Sciences

    Researchers find innovative way to improve soils on Mars for the cultivation of future colonising Earthlings. Learn how scientist have...

    Years F, 4-5 & 7-8
  • COSMOS Magazine: What causes the oily film on black tea?
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    COSMOS Magazine: What causes the oily film on black tea?

    Chemical SciencesSTEM

    Researchers take a closer look at the physics and chemist-tea. Learn about the compound responsible for the oily film on...

    Years 8
  • Making Water in the Antarctic Desert
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    Making Water in the Antarctic Desert

    Chemical SciencesAntarctic ScienceEarth SciencesSTEM

    The Antarctic ice sheet holds about 90 percent of Earth’s fresh water in 30 million cubic kilometres of ice. But...

    Years 7 & 10
  • Explainer: Standard Model of Particle Physics
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    Explainer: Standard Model of Particle Physics

    Physical SciencesChemical SciencesSTEM

    The standard model helps scientists describe the universe, but it’s not perfect. Use this explainer with Physics and Chemistry students...

    Years 9 & 11-12
  • Phenomena – Episode 2: Matter
    SCINEMA, Student Activity & Video & Film

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    Phenomena - Episode 2: Matter

    Chemical SciencesPhysical SciencesSTEM

    Energy is at the foundation of all change in the universe. Chemical reactions reveal explosive and vivid patterns that visualise...

    Years 8

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