Academic print magazine with augmented reality features. Brainspace challenges young minds to think beyond the bricks and mortar of the classroom. Interactive with tablets and phones, digital content is triggered from the images on the print pages of each issue. 36+ pages of content.
Brainspace
Rock POWER! VS CLIMATE CHANGE • Our planet is heating up because of increasing levels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Human activity has caused the increase. Burning fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas, and coal to run our furnaces, cars, and machinery produces carbon emissions. And when we cut down forests, we lose the trees that trap CO2 and release oxygen. We need to drastically lower our carbon emissions, so that life on our planet can continue to thrive. We also need to get rid of some of the CO2 that’s already in our atmosphere.
SAND BATTERIES • HOW COULD A BATTERY BE MADE OF SAND?
LITHIUM • THE METAL THAT POWERS THE WORLD
SPOTTED ZEBRAS?! • Why animals can have strange colours and markings
THE WATER CYCLE • IT KEEPS OUR PLANET AND LIFE FORMS HEALTHY BY GABRIELLE MIDDLETON
THE ADVENTURES of Tallulah
STRANGE BUT TRUE: NATURE'S WEIRDEST ANIMALS • NATURE IS FULL OF ANIMALS THAT ARE JUST PLAIN WEIRD! MEET THREE OF THE STRANGEST CREATURES ON EARTH: BUBBLE-BLASTING SHRIMP, SUPER-STINKY BIRDS AND ONE PUNKROCK REPTILE WITH GREEN ALGAE HAIR AND A VERY UNUSUAL WAY TO BREATHE.
BFF! ANIMAL PARTNERSHIPS IN THE WILD • When two very different animal species help each other survive and thrive, scientists call this teamwork mutualism. Read on to decide which partnership you think is the most clever: Team Pom-Pom? Team Clean? Team Acrobat?
Following the stars • Bogong moths use Earth’s magnetic field to find their way
Don't Fall For Deepfakes!
Truly Real, Super Strange, Wondrous Marvels Watch out! Or Not! You can’t trust everything you see. • They sound too weird to be true: fairies in England, a giant in New York, a mermaid in Fiji. But thousands of people have been caught up in crazes and believed in beings like this. After all, they saw them themselves. Or did they?
The Science of SPOOKY
Extremophiles
DEEP SEA BIZARRE • THERMAL VENTS ARE SO FAR BELOW THE SURFACE OF THE OCEAN THAT MICRO- ORGANISMS MUST CONVERT CHEMICALS (CHEMOSYNTHESIS) INTO ENERGY.
Cooking and the course of human evolution
Why Do Apples Turn BROWN? • LET’S INVESTIGATE THE SCIENCE OF ENZYMATIC BROWNING
WHAT’S BEHIND THE MASK?