The Helix magazine for ages 10+ brings you fascinating science news, feature stories, hands-on experiments and competitions every two months.
The Helix: a science magazine for ages 10+
The Helix magazine for ages 10+ is one of two magazines produced by CSIRO’s Double Helix Science Club. It is published every two months and is packed with science news, feature articles, hands-on experiments, comics, competitions and brain-bending puzzles.
The Helix is available by joining CSIRO’s Double Helix Science Club, or at selected newsagents Australia-wide.
The Helix is extremely popular with primary and high school students (ten years old and above), and is an excellent way to introduce kids to science. Younger kids may wish to read Scientriffic: a science magazine for ages 7+.
The Helix 130 - February 2010
The Helix magazine is packed with feature-length articles, competitions and hands-on experiments to excite and inspire.
Fact or fiction? In this issue of The Helix, it’s time to bust some urban myths. Does water flush different ways in different hemispheres? Are dogs’ mouths cleaner than humans’? And, can you see the Great Wall of China from the Moon?
Check out our hands-on activities: make a dinosaur egg piñata, exercise your brain and cook up some deep-fried ice-cream. Then, enter our competitions and you could win a science kit, an Einstein action figure or juggling balls.
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Get your copy of The Helix from selected newsagents or by puchasing a Double Helix membership.