Brainspace

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

ACIDS & BASES • You've probably learned about acids and bases in school, but here's a refresher! Acids and bases are two groups of chemical compounds. Almost all liquids are an acid or a base. What's the difference? Acids have a lot of positively-charged hydrogen ions, and bases have a lot of negatively-charged hydroxide ions.

WHAT IS OSMOSIS?

RUBBER EGG EXPERIMENT

6 KINGDOMS OF LIFE

SPACE INVADERS

JEDI RATS IMAGINATION'T JUST FOR HUMANS

Imagination • Imagination. It's powerful. Sometimes it plays tricks on you and makes you see things that aren't there. In fact, it will even fill in lttrs in wrds.

Rewilding • SOMETIMES NATURE NEEDS A HELPING HAND TO RETURN A DAMAGED ECOSYSTEM TO HEALTH

RETURN OF THE BISON • HOW WILD BISON WERE RE-ESTABLISHED AT BANFF NATIONAL PARK

WHAT IS ETHICAL AI? • As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes part of our everyday lives, experts are working hard to set guidelines and rules to protect the people who use it. Being “ethical” means doing what is right and fair, and treating all people with respect. But what does it mean when people talk about making sure that AI-powered computers, robots and devices are ethical?

FLOWERS BOTH BEAUTIFUL AND FUNCTIONAL • When we think of flowers, we often think of them as beautiful, delicate and sweet smelling. It's easy to forget that flowers have an important job to do! Their main mission is to make seeds so that the plant can reproduce. In order to fulfil this task, each of the three main parts of the flower has a role to play. The triad includes the stamen, the ovary and the pistil.

HELPING CORAL REEFS SURVIVE

protecting our skin and the planet • We all know that applying sunscreen to our skin will help protect us from the sun's harmful rays, but did you know that your choice of sunscreen may actually help the planet? Scientists now recognize that certain chemicals found in popular sunscreens are causing damage to one of the most remarkable natural environments on earth, the coral reefs.

ANIMALS COUNT • A DOG CALCULATING ANGLES SOUNDS LIKE A CRAZY DREAM BUT IT'S TRUE: ANIMAL MATH IS A GROWING SCIENCE.

ROMAN NUMERALS • Numbers are just symbols and learning them in a different system – such as Roman numerals – they can be a fun challenge. Roman numerals are still used today on clocks so it's useful to know them. Study the chart to decode numbers and then learn to build numbers. It requires a bit of extra thinking, but it's simple once you get the hang of it. You might even try to create more Roman numeral operations for yourself.

COULD YOU HAVE OUTRUN A TYRANNOSAUR? • ACCORDING TO PALEONTOLOGISTS, A T. REX COULDN'T REACH HIGH SPEEDS BECAUSE ITS BONES WOULD HAVE SHATTERED UNDER ITS WEIGHT

RAPTORS • MODERN AVIAN RAPTORS, ALSO KNOWN AS BIRDS OF PREY, AND PREHISTORIC NON-AVIAN RAPTORS, SUCH AS VELOCIRAPTORS, SHARE SIMILARITIES BUT HAVE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES DUE TO EVOLUTION AND THE ENVIRONMENTS IN WHICH THEY LIVED. LET'S INVESTIGATE!

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