What on Earth! Magazine

What on Earth! Magazine is an award-winning factual magazine for ages 7 to 14 that helps curious kids fall in love with reading and learning. Covering all their favourite topics – from animals, space and nature, to history, art, science and sport – each issue is bursting with amazing facts, photos, quizzes, puzzles, jokes and more!

SNAP IT! • Astonishing photos from around the world

MAP IT

THE PALACE FACTS • Prepare to enter the Palace of Facts, where fascinating facts await you in every room!

Eureka! • The latest astonishing discoveries, inventions and scientific breakthroughs.

EYE DON'T BELIEVE IT! • Amazing optical illusions that trick your brain…

PUZZLES & GAMES! • Inside this 14-page activity section, you will find quizzes to do, puzzles to solve and fun activities to try. And don't worry if you get stuck – all the answers are on page 30.

ANSWERS

NOBODY KNOWS! • Since the 1980s, a mysterious whale call of 52 hertz has been recorded in the Pacific Ocean. Its location suggests a blue or fin whale, but both call at lower frequencies. As for what kind of whale is making the call and who it is calling to…

OVER THE MOON! • Blast off to the Moon and discover everything from how it formed to whether humans could ever live there…

THE FIRST HUMANS ON THE MOON 20 JULY 1969: APOLLO 11 • NEIL ARMSTRONG AND EDWIN ‘BUZZ’ ALDRIN TAKE ONE GIANT LEAP

HOW TO… Guess the number of jelly beans in a jar • Trying to win a guessing contest? Wow your friends with ‘guestimating’ tips from the brilliant new book How to Do (Almost) Everything, by Becky Baines.

THE BIG PICTURE!

THE SISTINE CHAPEL

THE BIG QUESTIONS?

Meet dinosaurs, robots and a universe of wonders! • We joined thousands of curious young minds for this year's New Scientist Live.

What on Earth! Magazine

Jokes & Riddles • Send your name, age and favourite joke to our jokes editor May at jokes@whatonearthmag.com If your joke is featured in a future issue of the magazine, you will WIN a copy of Secret FACTopia!