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      <image:caption>Curiosity Lab is a Dubai-based STEM center offering hands-on science classes, camps, parties and events. Here, children are treated as the scientists of tomorrow. They experiment. They experience. They explore. Their curiosity is sparked, nurtured and fueled. Children are guided by teachers who share their scientific curiosity and believe in the power of education, as they explore the world they inhabit through exciting experiments and ingenious demonstrations. At Curiosity Lab, science is taught with all its wonder intact.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Modules are the heart and soul of what Curiosity Lab has to offer. They are a structured program consisting of weekly classes, taught in a small group setting. They give context to learning, by tying important scientific concepts together into an exciting overarching story, told through hands-on science.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Does your future scientist want a REAL science party? Well, then look no further than the Curiosity Lab Birthday package. A private venue, catered food, and exciting entertainment curated from the best science classes on the planet - this party will have it all! While other parties use science to simply keep the guests busy, we make science the centerpiece! With the whole lab and our passionate teachers at your disposal, you are guaranteed the most jaw-dropping experiments imaginable. The potions will be magical. The reactions, exhilarating. And the explosions, mind-blowing.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Curiosity Lab - A SCIENCE-PACKED, WONDER-FILLED HOLIDAY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Holidays are the perfect time to flex your scientific muscles, and the Curiosity Lab science camp lets children do just that. But this isn't one of your average (some might say boring) educational camps. There are no worksheets, no tests, and no dry theory. We select the best hands-on activities and experiments from our science classes, and then make the most of the free time children finally have to take it all to the next level. Captivating challenges, engaging builds, fanciful concoctions and thrilling experiments await!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Curiosity Lab - EVENTS THAT INSPIRE</image:title>
      <image:caption>Backed by years of daily experience teaching the best science classes on the planet, we have created a repertoire of science shows, workshops and activations that can (and has!) engaged audience of every age. So whether your institution is a school about to have its Science Day, a space center inspiring the next generation of rocket scientists, or even a world expo hosting the “world’s greatest show”, Curiosity Lab is guaranteed to elevate your event with a burst of science and wonder.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 9 | Winter 2026 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 9 | Winter 2026 - COOKING UP SCIENCE</image:title>
      <image:caption>Of all the culinary arts, baking is the one that most resembles science. Through changes in ratios and technique, baking takes the same key ingredients and transforms them into all those tempting treats on display in bakeries. Last week, we explored the science in baking for ourselves by conducting the tastiest experiment ever: baking chocolate chip cookies! By changing the ratios of things like flour, eggs, sugar, butter and baking powder in our cookie dough, and then comparing it to some perfect control cookies, we discovered what each of these key ingredients brings to the table.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 9 | Winter 2026 - PLANET EARTH, ANIMATED</image:title>
      <image:caption>As far as we know, the universe is a vast, sterile desert in which our planet is the only oasis of life. And even a cursory exploration of the fossil record reveals just how vibrant this oasis has been throughout its history. After getting up close to our fossil collection, filled with specimens from dinosaurs, trilobites, ammonites and marine life, we searched for our very own pieces of the past. Once the dig site was carefully excavated, we assembled the fossils we unearthed and cast souvenirs to remind us of our place in the Earth’s long history.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 9 | Winter 2026 - RAMPANT REACTIONS</image:title>
      <image:caption>Last week, things got electric as we broke down chemicals by passing a current through them. So long as the chemical conducts electricity, we can use electrolysis to decompose it. After exploring charges, ions and electrodes, we discovered what exactly makes a material conduct before we split H20 into its H’s and O’s. After these combustible gases popped and settled, we decided to give steel a makeover. By choosing the right electrodes and electrolytes, we electroplated boring-looking objects with the lustrous shine of copper!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 9 | Winter 2026 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 8 | Winter 2026 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 8 | Winter 2026 - COOKING UP SCIENCE</image:title>
      <image:caption>For most of our past, the warmer months were times of plentiful harvests, and the colder months were times of scarcity. To spread the calories throughout the year, humans need to find ways to keep the decomposers at bay and extend the shelf life of foods.  This week, we will prepare our pantries for the winter by making a brine to pickle cucumbers. While its acidity and salt deter all microbes, fermentation is less strict. Here, we create the conditions for certain beneficial microbes to proliferate and protect our food for us. Like the yeast we will use to create the very inedible Elephant Toothpaste reaction!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 8 | Winter 2026 - PLANET EARTH, ANIMATED</image:title>
      <image:caption>Hidden deep within cells are the instructions that enable an organism to form and function. In simpler lifeforms, this genetic material is “written” in RNA, but we humans have DNA, its double-helical upgrade. This week, we will explore how DNA encodes for genes, copies itself, and passes that information from one generation to the next. And as we do this, we will break down the cells of a strawberry, extract its genetic material, and isolate its DNA for all to see.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Anyone who has noticed the fading of cherished photos knows that light can decompose. Ironically, this process made photography possible in the first place. By coating paper with a chemical particularly susceptible to light and then hiding it beneath a negative while the Sun’s UV light works its magic, our chemists will create their own old-timey photographs. Waiting for these to develop will give us plenty of time to explore UV’s glow with fluorescent potions, inks and more!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 8 | Winter 2026 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 7 | Winter 2026 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 7 | Winter 2026 - COOKING UP SCIENCE</image:title>
      <image:caption>Dairy hasn’t been the only staple of the human diet. Bread has also graced tables around the world for millennia. But whereas most cultures made do with flatbreads, this week, we will be raising it up to the next level with leaveners. As our experiments will show, both baking soda and yeast produce enough gas to blow up balloons, but which of these is best at making a light and fluffy dough? After mixing and kneading our own dough, we will stretch it out, top it with tomato sauce and cheese, bake our pizzas, and put these leaveners to the ultimate taste test.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 7 | Winter 2026 - PLANET EARTH, ANIMATED</image:title>
      <image:caption>Since water is so good at dissolving the chemicals biochemistry depends on, life needed a way to stop the currents from washing these nutrients away. The cell kept these currents away and built up high enough concentrations of these nutrients within it to allow life to take hold. This week, microscopes will let us get a closer look at life’s building blocks. Using onion skin and our own cheek cells, we will explore the differences between plant and animal cells before we turn the microscope to our aquarium to reveal the microscopic universe of single-celled life hiding right under our noses.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 7 | Winter 2026 - RAMPANT REACTIONS</image:title>
      <image:caption>You don’t always have to mix a bunch of chemicals together to get a chemical reaction. Sometimes, all we need to do is add a little energy. With this kick, a single chemical can break down and produce a host of new ones. This week, that kick will come in the form of heat as we thermally decompose chemicals. After breaking down vibrantly turquoise copper carbonate into black copper oxide and carbon dioxide, we will set light to sugar and charm a pure carbon snake out of its flames.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 7 | Winter 2026 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Spring Camp 2026 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 6 | Winter 2026 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 6 | Winter 2026 - COOKING UP SCIENCE</image:title>
      <image:caption>Milk, our favourite culinary emulsion, is also great at demonstrating why the states of matter are so important in cooking. Blend cream, its richer byproduct, with sugar, your favourite flavours, and a generous dash of liquid nitrogen to speed things up, and you’ve got the creamy solid we love called ice cream. Add the same cream to molten chocolate, and turn it into a syrup that will stay liquid when drizzled onto our ice cream. Finally, trap loads of tiny bubbles of gas into the remaining cream, and top off your dessert with a light, airy whipped cream.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 6 | Winter 2026 - PLANET EARTH, ANIMATED</image:title>
      <image:caption>As far as we know, water is the real stuff of life. It is the one thing that all life on this planet needs, so much so that scientists believe that the best place to look for extraterrestrial life is on other worlds with water. But what is it about water that brings life to our planet? By exploring the solubility of various chemicals in water, we will discover why it is the “universal solvent”, and one that is particularly great at dissolving the chemicals we depend on. Then, once dissolved, we will see how water allows these chemicals to take part in the chemistry of life, just as it allows us to react up expanding balloons of gas and liquids that change colour at will!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 6 | Winter 2026 - RAMPANT REACTIONS</image:title>
      <image:caption>For a chemical to take away electrons, another one has to be willing to give them up. And to lose electrons, we need a chemical to accept them. So most reactions are really a mixture of reduction &amp; oxidation, and these redox reactions can be downright magical. By carefully adjusting the recipe for the Iodine Clock reaction to control the rate of redox, our chemists will concoct a clear potion that will turn pitch black on their command!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 5 | Winter 2026 - COOKING UP SCIENCE</image:title>
      <image:caption>There is no emulsion more important to our diets than milk. Unlike other mammals, most humans consume it far into their lives. It is such an important part of our diets that our dairy-farming ancestors even found ways to extend the short shelf life of this emulsion of water, fats, protein and sugars. This week, we will break down this emulsion just as they did to make a range of dairy products. We will use acid to make mouldable plastic that won’t be appetising to be considered cheese. By shaking all its fat together, we will churn our own butter. And by adding some helpful bacteria, we will get it to “spoil” in just the right way to make creamy yoghurt.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Life may never have been possible on Earth had it not been for our atmosphere. It contains the oxygen that large lifeforms need to release energy, just like the flames we will light and suffocate. It also has just the right amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, a gas we will use to extinguish any flames that get out of hand, which keeps our planet’s temperature just right. But most importantly, it pushes down on us with pressure. Once we use this atmospheric pressure to karate chop rulers and suck candles into flasks upon columns of water, we will use a vacuum chamber to show what life would be like without air. Cold boiling water and exploding marshmallows await!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>For all the thieving chemicals like oxygen that like to steal electrons, there are generous ones that love to give up their electrons. This Reduction can change chemicals in spectacular ways. We will make silver appear out of “water” to coat our test tubes before we make colour disappear altogether. With the help of glucose, a reducing sugar, we will turn a blue dye-filled bottle colourless right before our eyes. But it gets better! Shake the bottle, adding some oxidising oxygen back into the mix, and watch the dye materialise out of thin air.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Getting water and oil to mix is impossible. Since water is polar and oil is nonpolar, the two most frequently used liquids in our kitchens refuse to play nice. But there are chemicals out there, like soap, that bridge the divide and bring these two closer together to create an emulsion. Now, no one wants their food to taste like soap, so this week, we will test out far more appetising emulsifiers like starch, egg, mustard, and honey. Then, using these, we will whip salad dressings and pasta sauce into stable emulsions full of flavour.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>We live on a thin crust of solid rock floating on a vast ocean of magma, heated by the incredibly high temperatures of our iron-rich core. The energy welling up from these depths is what drives the changing surface of our planet. This week, we will discover how fossils showed us that the continents drift on their tectonic plates, and, with the help of chocolate powder, crackers, and icing, how the movement of these plates causes earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, as well as creates mountains and new land. Before we head for the surface, using electricity and iron, we will explore how the planet’s roiling centre gives rise to a lifesaving planetary magnetic field.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>All of chemistry comes down to the humble electron. This subatomic particle - tinier than even the infinitesimal atom - drives chemical change. Some chemicals even go so far as to steal them from others in search of stability, and one chemical has such a bad rap for doing this that we name this subatomic theft after it. Oxidation will set our lab ablaze this week as we get fuels in close contact with oxygen. With a little kick of energy to set things off, we will make iron dazzle with rust, flasks whoosh with fire, and ignite a sprinkle of seeds into dazzling flames.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Heat is such an integral part of cooking that you’d be hard-pressed to think of a culinary example where there was no heat involved. Not only does it make food easier to digest, but it also opens up a whole new world of flavours, aromas, colours, and textures. This week, we will turn up the heat as we transform sugar into caramel and then use the Maillard Reaction and a few amino acids to toast up the perfect grilled cheese sandwich. Finally, we will use heat and other chemicals to denature proteins and “poach” some eggs to go with it.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>As lava cooled, these new lands shook under the barrage of asteroid impacts that plagued our young planet. Nowadays, the Earth mostly shudders for another reason (a reason we will explore next week), and it is these more modern earthquakes that have allowed scientists to peer right down to the core of our planet. However, before we delve any deeper, we should ensure our homes can withstand the next seismic shift. Using nothing but sticks and marshmallows, our would-be engineers will have to construct a tower that reaches for the sky while we shake the ground beneath it with our drill-powered earthquake simulator!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Now that we can tell our acids and bases apart, it’s time to neutralise them. Mixing one with the other produces a salt, water, and a more neutral solution - handy if you have a spot of heartburn and even handier if you need to measure the concentration of an acid or base. After running a few tests to select the right indicator, our chemists will turn detective! They will perform a titration - a carefully carried out neutralisation with an acid of known strength - and find out the strengths of some mystery bases.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kitchens may not be the first place that comes to mind when looking for crystals, but our cupboards are full of them! Sugar, salt, and even ice are crystals hiding in plain sight, and the first of these is perfect for serving up a mouthwatering treat. After examining what makes a crystal a crystal by comparing these household ones to their geological counterparts, we will explore solubility to concoct a supersaturated syrup from which we will grow our own rock candy - a tooth-decayingly big, single crystal of sugar on a stick.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Earth was far from idyllic in its younger days. The heat from all those collisions that amassed our planet was so immense that our world wasn’t much more than a molten ball of rock. Even if a little patch of it managed to cool into solid ground, the next volcanic eruption wasn’t too far behind to melt it back into a liquid. So this week, we will explore the volcanoes that once dotted our land using chemistry. With the help of vinegar, baking soda, and peroxide, we will cause eruptions that are far safer yet no less spectacular!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Now that we know a chemical reaction when we see one, it’s time to get reacting! Acids and bases are notorious chemicals, and neutralisation is a surefire way of blunting their danger. But what exactly are they, and how can we tell them apart? This week, our chemists embark on a journey across the pH scale, learning about proton donors and acceptors.  Using red cabbage to dye kitchen towels, we will create our own pH paper and compare it to store-bought stuff as we test the acidity (or alkalinity!) of household chemicals.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 1 | Winter 2026 - COOKING UP SCIENCE</image:title>
      <image:caption>Before we don our chef hats and cook up a storm, it would be good to know what food even is in the first place. Are they calories - those pesky things all the most tempting foods seem to be full of? And what about those so-called nutrients? How do we get more of those? Last week, we broke down foods and discovered the chemicals that make them up. By rolling up our sleeves and getting chemical, we added reagents and watched the colours change to reveal the sugars, starches, proteins and fats that build up our bodies and sustain them.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Our time-travelling adventure through Earth’s long history started at the very start - not with the formation of our planet, but with the beginning of the universe as we know it. While our Big Bang was a liquid nitrogen-fuelled explosion of fog rather than the colossal expansion of space that began 13.8 billion years ago, it nevertheless gave us the momentum to explore how gravity spent the next 9 billion years sculpting matter into generation after generation of stars and planets. Then, with the help of our giant trampoline, weights, magnet balls, and marbles, we put in orbit our very own planets around a sun and set in motion our brand new Solar System.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Chemical reactions can build up chemicals, break them down, and transform them in jaw-dropping ways, so you’d think we would recognise them when we see them. No one will mistake something as mundane as ice melting as a chemical reaction, but what if it’s dry ice? Surely, all those clouds of fog are giveaways of some chemical magic! Or what about the fountains of fizz when Mentos and cola meet? Last week, our chemists investigated whether these glorious reactions made any new chemicals or were they simply physical reactions in cunning disguise?</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 13 | Autumn 2025 - SCIENCE BEHIND THE WAND</image:title>
      <image:caption>Even in winter, Glacius, the freezing spell, would be really handy in Dubai, but plain old refrigeration has already worked wonders in cooling the desert. While spraying compressed air cans that cooled in our hands, we learnt how pressured refrigerants are used to chill everything from rooms to food. But it was the freezing air that came out the other end that let us cheat the laws of thermodynamics and make things really cold! By rapidly expanding pressurised gas, we made clouds in bottles and even froze carbon dioxide. At -80 degrees, this dry ice was perfect for creating enough billowing, magical fog to celebrate our graduation from the wizarding world of science.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>With so many myths and so little time, we end the term with a bunch of myths you don’t need a lab to debunk. Can you fold paper in half more than seven times? You sure can! Just ask Britney Gallivan, the high-schooler who not only worked out the formula for this but also holds the world record for most paper folds. Does air moving around a wing really want to reach the end at the same time? Nope. And, as our paper planes showed, there’s a lot more to flight than just Bernoulli’s principle. Does water drain clockwise in the Northern hemisphere? While there may be a tendency for this, you can easily overcome the Coriolis Effect and make water drain whichever way you like, as we did in our tornado bottles. Is the Earth round? Yes!!! Just ask Eratosthenes, who used nothing but a shadow to prove this more than 2000 years ago!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Unlike most of the elements we have met this term, the larger, heavier ones at the tail end of the Periodic Table are ones you wouldn’t want to see up close. At least not without a few inches of lead in the way. With such large nuclei, their atoms are prone to radioactive decay, breaking down into smaller elements and a whole bunch of DNA-damaging energy and particles. Since even Googling where we could find some of these elements would put us on some watchlist somewhere, we recreated their toxic glow by shining UV light on our fluorescein potions, before breaking down luminol with some bleach to end the term basking in its ethereal light.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 12 | Autumn 2025 - SCIENCE BEHIND THE WAND</image:title>
      <image:caption>While the wizarding world need only utter “Ventus” to blow great, big gusts, we muggles need to rely on ungainly fans to push air around. But Bernoulli’s principle gives a way to get so much more out of our fans. After using the power of pressure differentials to defy gravity and stop an upturned cup of water from pouring onto the floor, we will explore the relationship between air’s speed and pressure. Using fast-moving air to reduce pressure, we will get the surrounding atmosphere to give us a helping hand. Balls will be sucked right out of cups and will float midair. Water (and the toilet paper to soak it up) will be sent flying across the lab. And giant bags and entire rooms will be filled up with just a single puff of air!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Does lightning never strike the same place twice? To find out, we will go deep into the world of static electricity. Using simple friction, we will dislodge electrons from everyday objects and induce charges that will make balloons attract and repel, and paper rise up and dance. But is the static behind these simple experiments also responsible for one of nature’s most magnificent sights? Our Van de Graaff generator will answer that by supercharging the charges involved, allowing us to rain down tiny lightning bolts without a storm cloud in sight. Our plasma ball will let us get up close and personal and see what happens to the air in a strike, but it’s the fierce arcs of the Wimshurst machine that will finally settle this myth!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The post-transition metals are definitely metals, but to a lesser extent. Not only are they softer and more brittle than your typical transition metal, but they also melt at much lower temperatures, making them easier to work with. Using a blowtorch, we will melt aluminium. Using a soldering iron, we will melt tin. And using nothing but our body heat, we will melt gallium! Then, it’s time to turn up the power. By passing a current through a solution of tin salt, we will crystallise a delicate metal snowflake right out of the liquid!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 11 | Autumn 2025 - SCIENCE BEHIND THE WAND</image:title>
      <image:caption>On a blue planet like ours, Aguamenti, the spell to create water, hardly seems needed. That is, until you discover how little of that is accessible fresh water. So in places like the desert we live in, humans have had to be more resourceful. By soaking potato strips in distilled and salt water, we will explore the process of osmosis, the movement of water across a partially permeable membrane, and its counterpart, reverse osmosis, which is how we desalinate the seas to quench our thirst. But if we really want to make water rather than filter it, we need to break it down into its components using electricity. Then, by reacting oxygen with the hydrogen in a balloon, we will create water out of thin air and a whole lot of fire!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Is custard explosive? The question may seem silly, but custard factories have been known to explode! Using flint and steel to spark up a fire, we will explore the fire triangle and determine whether custard has what it takes to combust. As we roast marshmallows over our mini campfires and charm a carbon “snake” out from the sugary ashes, it will become all too clear that custard has the energy to ignite. However, for an explosion to occur, things need to get much finer. By grinding this dessert into a powder and dispersing it into our oxygen-rich atmosphere, we will blow the lids off paint cans and send sweet, fiery whooshes into the air.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 11 | Autumn 2025 - PERIODIC PIONEERS</image:title>
      <image:caption>Not all Transition Metals are created equal. Some resist change so irresolutely that we covet them. We make our jewellery from them. The alchemists of the past spent their lives trying to magic them up from lesser ingredients (a task we succeed at by turning a flask pure silver!). The precious metals may be prized, but the others have a trick up their sleeves. They readily produce salts, salts which do more than flavour our food. By sprinkling a dash of these more exotic salts into a flame, we will make it burn with every colour of the rainbow.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.curiositylab.ae/blog/christmas-science-kit</loc>
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      <image:caption>Unleash an eruption of foam as you carry out YouTube’s most popular chemical reaction from the comfort of your home.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mutate your Christmas tree into a stretchy polymer that looks (and smells!) like the real deal.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Brighten up your Christmas Tree with ornaments crafted and crystallised by your own hand.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.curiositylab.ae/blog/the-comet-issue-10-autumn-2025</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-11-16</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 10 | Autumn 2025 - SCIENCE BEHIND THE WAND</image:title>
      <image:caption>While a simple “Sonorus” is enough to ensure you’re heard over even the most exciting game of Quidditch, we Muggles have to resort to microphones, speakers, and electrical amplification. But there are far more low-tech ways to make our voices heard. Using slinkies, we will visualise sound waves to better understand what amplification means, before we add a megaphone of sorts to it and amplify its rattle to a symphony of sci-fi sound effects. Then, using the power of resonance, we will get rice to dance and glasses to sing before we turn a simple PVC pipe into a flute whose tune could fill a concert hall with nothing but the air escaping our lungs.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 10 | Autumn 2025 - MYTH BUSTERS</image:title>
      <image:caption>In the wild, the difference between life and death could be a simple fire. It should come as no surprise, then,  that people have come up with many resourceful ways to start a fire. Rubbing sticks. Bag of water. Polished ice. A battery and a stick of gum. So this week, we will try to turn up the heat as we explore the science behind these possible myths and then test them. Bow drills will be employed to see if wood alone has enough friction to start a fire. The refractive power of water and glass will be focused to magnify objects and burn balloons. And batteries will be short-circuited to ignite foil-covered wrappers and steel wool.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 10 | Autumn 2025 - PERIODIC PIONEERS</image:title>
      <image:caption>Get ready to rock, because it’s all heavy metal from here on out. Since the metallic elements account for about 80% of the Periodic Table, it’d be good to know what makes a metal so “metal”. Is it the colour? The strength? The hardness? Its malleability? Its ductility? Or maybe it’s another property altogether? We will scour the lab for its metals and put them to the test. A barrage of tests, actually. Which of them conducts electricity? Which of them is magnetic? Only the best will help us build simple circuits and turn slime magnetic.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.curiositylab.ae/blog/winter-camp-2025</loc>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Winter Camp 2025 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.curiositylab.ae/blog/the-comet-issue-9-autumn-2025</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-11-03</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 9 | Autumn 2025 - SCIENCE BEHIND THE WAND</image:title>
      <image:caption>While in the Wizarding World, a simple “Evanesco” or an invisibility cloak is enough to disappear from view, in the real world, invisibility requires a mastery of light. Using refraction, the bending of light as it travels from one medium into another, we will make test tubes and rods actually disappear and reappear right before your eyes. Sure, it will only do so in slippery oil rather than thin air, and it only works with clear glass. So, to make the opaque vanish, we will have to get tricky. Using the clean reflections of mirrors, we will build a Room of Requirement in which we can hide things from plain view.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 9 | Autumn 2025 - MYTH BUSTERS</image:title>
      <image:caption>Is it really impossible to pull apart two interleaved phone books? After explaining what phone books are to children who can’t fathom a time before the internet, we will explore friction - the only force keeping these heavy tomes together. By getting objects with different surfaces and shapes to slide, we will discover what role smoothness and (more importantly for our myth) surface area play in this resistance to motion before using nothing but friction to lift up whole bottles of rice with a simple pencil. Then, by interleaving notebooks and measuring the effort required to separate them, we will hopefully build up enough courage for a phone book-tug-of-war.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 9 | Autumn 2025 - PERIODIC PIONEERS</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Halogens of Group 7 are great at making salts. Take a little chlorine and add a dash of sodium, and voila, a salt no dish will ever go without. But on their own, the halogens are toxic as they are vibrant. In large doses, they can wreak havoc - ask anyone who has swum in an over-chlorinated pool - but in small amounts, though, they make effective disinfectants. But rather than rubbing iodine tincture on our open wounds, we will be brewing it with starch, vitamin C, and peroxide to concoct a potion that will go from clear to black in a flash!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.curiositylab.ae/blog/the-comet-issue-8-autumn-2025</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-28</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 8 | Autumn 2025 - SCIENCE BEHIND THE WAND</image:title>
      <image:caption>You may think of all the spells, Lumos would be the easiest for science to recreate, but illumination isn’t as straightforward as it seems. Until the advent of LEDs, light required making something, like the gases above burning fuel or the filament in an incandescent bulb, so incredibly hot that they glowed bright. But there was another, more “magical” way. Using chemiluminescence, the process that powers everything from fireflies to glow sticks, we will concoct potions of luminol, a chemical that breaks down to produce cool light, to bathe the lab in the ethereal glow of many colours.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 8 | Autumn 2025 - MYTH BUSTERS</image:title>
      <image:caption>Despite being the most familiar of forces, gravity is ripe with possible myth. Do heavy objects really fall faster than lighter ones? Would a fired bullet really hit the ground at the same time as a dropped bullet? Could a coin dropped from the top of a skyscraper really be lethal? And is there really no gravity in space? The greatest scientific minds earned their names by answering questions like these, and we will do the same as we drop various objects through different media and discover the nuances of gravity, air resistance, and terminal velocity, ultimately building a parachute that can even save a falling egg from a messy end.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 8 | Autumn 2025 - PERIODIC PIONEERS</image:title>
      <image:caption>We move across to oxygen, everyone’s favourite element, and with good reason. Without it, it would be a challenge to release all the energy locked away inside chemicals. From the glow of candles to the calories hidden in food, without oxygen, our lives would be cold, dark, and weary. But there are living things that have learnt to do without, and it is one of these that we turn to this week. Using yeast, we will unleash the oxygen trapped within hydrogen peroxide and create the foamy, bubbly mess that is the ever-popular Elephant Toothpaste experiment.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.curiositylab.ae/blog/the-comet-issue-7-autumn-2025</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-21</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 7 | Autumn 2025 - SCIENCE BEHIND THE WAND</image:title>
      <image:caption>Since even Aparecium wasn’t enough for Hermione to unlock the secrets of Tom Riddle’s diary, we will be turning to science to make and reveal a whole palette of invisible inks. Acids, such as lemon juice, have long been the go-to choice for a quick, DIY invisible ink; however, the heat needed to reveal them poses a significant fire hazard. So we turn to base instead. By writing our secret messages in a baking soda solution, we can use turmeric’s ability to detect pH by changing its colour to reveal them with just a spray. But for total secrecy, we need to turn to ultraviolet light. By shining this invisible light onto messages written in bleach and UV-reactive ink, even Professor Snape won’t be able to reveal our secrets. Mischief managed!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 7 | Autumn 2025 - MYTH BUSTERS</image:title>
      <image:caption>Imagine you’re sailing the high seas with pirates in hot pursuit. With their faster ship, it’s only a matter of time before they catch up, so you need to find some extra speed. In your desperation, you and your crew take big gulps of air and start blowing into your sail. Would that work? Can you really blow your own sail? By building mini rafts, hoisting sails upon them, and using fans to blow at them, the myth will soon be put to rest. But by doing some further testing with fan cars on dry land, while getting to grips with Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion, we may find a better way to leave those pirates in our wake.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 7 | Autumn 2025 - PERIODIC PIONEERS</image:title>
      <image:caption>It’s on to another vital element for life! Without nitrogen, proteins, the building blocks of life, would not be possible. Despite nitrogen gas making up most of our atmosphere, bioavailable forms of nitrogen were so scarce that nitrogen-rich biological matter, like the “stuff” we all leave behind in toilets, was at times more valuable than gold. Just as chemistry eventually found a way to split the strongly-bonded N2 gas molecule and feed the world, we will work on super-cooling that gas to -196 degrees C (as cold as Uranus and Neptune!) so that it stops being a gas altogether. With this liquid nitrogen in (well-protected) hands, we will freeze roses and marshmallows and smash them to smithereens, cook up dragon-breath popcorn &amp; unleash a massive explosion of fog!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.curiositylab.ae/blog/the-comet-issue-6-autumn-2025</loc>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 6 | Autumn 2025 - SCIENCE BEHIND THE WAND</image:title>
      <image:caption>Impedimenta. Arresto Momentum. Petrificus Totalis. Even Stupefy. The wizarding world has many spells to slow and even stop motion altogether, but for us mere Muggles, we just need to master Newton’s Laws of Motion. Despite being the foundation on which much of modern science was built, these rules are so simple that we can rediscover them for ourselves using a few blocks and rubber bands. By racing and crashing these blocks, we will gain an intuitive understanding of heady concepts like inertia, force, and momentum. Then, with that same momentum on our side, we will use launchers and cannons to fire tennis balls at ever greater speeds to bring dauntingly big foes to a screeching halt.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Things get microbial this week as we investigate some germy myths. Are chopping boards more germ-ridden than a toilet? What about door handles? Or, heaven forbid, our devices?! And is the 5 Second Rule really a rule? Answering the last of these will be easy. By dusting the floor with a special fluorescent powder that simulates germs, we can shine a light on how long it takes different types of dropped food to be contaminated. But to answer the rest, we will need to get farming! By cooking up and plating a nutrient jelly that microbes won’t be able to resist, we will provide the perfect home for some single-celled pets. Then, we will swab these supposed havens for germs, incubate them, and watch our colonies grow.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>We should be grateful for carbon’s ubiquity, as this element forms the chemical backbone of all life on this planet. The complicated molecules that allow something as complex as life to thrive, everything from the proteins and fats that build and regulate our bodies to the DNA that encodes its information, wouldn’t be possible without strings of carbon atoms and their ability to bond with up to four atoms at a time. Even sugars, the universal fuel for metabolism, are nothing without their carbon chains. And it is from these sugars that we will demonstrate carbon’s chemical prowess. With a little help from fire, we will witness carbon rise like a charmed serpent from a pile of sugar before we use glucose to create a chemical traffic light that changes colour with just a shake.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ascendio is the perfect spell to get you out of any undesired situation. Ascendio, and you launch out of the water before your gills seal up. Ascendio, and you leap up and reach the top shelf. Ascendio, and you leave that awkward conversation down in your dust. Simple elasticity, like the type used to power our pogo sticks and cup launchers, could get us some of the way there, but for some much-needed oomph, we need to turn to proper propulsion. By pressurising gas and using it to force water into jets, we will launch rockets up to the ceiling and beyond! Then, using nothing but the force of hot gases, we will propel matchstick rockets and water bottles ahead of their fiery trails!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Can you walk across a pool of oobleck? Before we break out the cornflour and water and make this thick ooze, let’s finally settle what separates liquids from solids. While Newton thought this was straightforward enough to warrant a law, the discovery of non-Newtonian fluids proved he was a bit hasty. Some, like mayonnaise and toothpaste, act solid until a force is applied. While others, like ketchup and paint, become more runny when you do the same to them. But oobleck is where things get really weird. Gently mix it, and you have a liquid on your hands (as we quite literally will!). But strike it and watch as it turns resolutely solid under your might. After releasing all of our stress on the stuff, we will fill up a pool and run, hop, and skip our way across the surface of a liquid like no other!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Some elements are so vital that they need an entire session. But carbon is going to need two! We start by exploring carbon in its many forms. It can be as brittle and lacklustre as pencil lead and as hard and dazzling as diamonds. But we are most familiar with it as carbon dioxide. Previously, we used it to make fountains of fizz, but this week, we will go subzero! Usually, when a gas is cooled enough, it will condense into a liquid. However, when CO2 is cooled to just about -80°C (colder even than Antarctica!), it skips being a liquid and freezes solid. And as it melts, the released gas rapidly cools the surrounding water vapour and condenses into fine droplets of liquid water. Our chemists will do just this as they turn the lab into a real-life potions class filled with eerie fog and bubbly mess.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Arguably, the most famous spell is Wingardium Leviosa (that’s leviosa, not leviosaaa!), and it’s one that science has well and truly covered. Electricity and magnetism have been making objects levitate long before Dumbledore grew the first hair on his chin. After swapping Hermione’s feather for our own flying teabags, we will use the power of electrons to levitate plastic at the behest of our static wands. But just as like charges repel, like poles do too, and magnetic levitation can be orders of magnitude more powerful, lifting whole trains off their tracks. So, we will summon up this force to hover magnets and bolts, pencils and brooms in nothing but thin air!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Would we really sink in quicksand? And if yes, is it actually dangerous? What even is quicksand?! When water-saturated sand is agitated, once solid ground can quickly turn surprisingly liquid. By making it for ourselves, we will witness the dangers of liquefaction as it sinks objects and settles the first of our myths. But to answer the second, we will need to get dense! By pouring and floating different liquids atop one another, we will explore density and buoyancy until we are confident that quicksand won’t pull us down to the bottom any time soon (just don’t panic!). While some would love the chance to test this with real-life quicksand, the higher insurance premiums would hardly be worth it. So, we will pump air rather than water through fine sand to give you the next best thing - fluid sand!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Categories help us make sense of the world, but nature doesn’t always play ball. Solids, liquids, and gases may seem like useful ways to describe materials until you meet materials that don’t fit neatly into either group. And elements can be just as rebellious! Chemists would like to divide them into metals and non-metals, but then came the metalloids, which were a little bit of both. This week, we will use boron, the lightest of these metalloids, to make a material that blurs the line between solid and liquid. Using the boron in household Borax powder, we will link PVA glue’s long-chain molecules together to turn it into slime. But what strength of borax solution makes the stretchiest of slimes? That’s a question our chemists will answer for themselves after the slimiest of experiments!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Issue 3 | Autumn 2025 - SCIENCE BEHIND THE WAND</image:title>
      <image:caption>Nothing is ever too far out of reach for a good wizard. Clear your mind, focus only on the object, cast the spell - “Accio *insert object name*”, and watch it fly into your waiting hand. And while science may not be able to summon your flying broom from the other side of Hogwarts, magnets can exert magical attractive forces from a distance, as seen by our DIY magnetic toys. Sure, the other object needs to either be a magnet or have some amount of magnetic material in it, but that’s where static comes to the rescue. It has no such limitation. Balloons, cans, water, bubbles, they will all be summoned to our electric wills!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>While there are many good reasons to avoid unhealthy treats, can certain combinations cause our stomachs to explode? Pop Rocks and Coke? Or perhaps, Mentos and Coke? Now, we can’t risk our gastric (and overall) health by testing these the easy way, so it’s time to break out the labware. A whole lot of fizz later, we will be down at the microscopic level, looking at the sweet surfaces of candy with all its nucleation sites - places responsible for the formation of everything from soda bubbles to clouds in the sky. Using these sites to our advantage, it will then be time to paint our ceiling with fountains of fizz!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Two classes in and still on element 2 of 118 - it’s time to get a move on! Elements with the same number of electrons in their outer “orbit” belong to the same Group and have properties so similar that we can examine them as a whole. For example, the Group I &amp; II metals behave like no metal we have ever encountered  before. They are soft, dull, and highly reactive. So reactive, in fact, that the pure sodium we will drop into water will explode, and the magnesium we will burn will burst into brilliant white flames. And using their ability to form bases, we will concoct some milk of magnesia and use it to neutralise vinegar and make a chemical rainbow.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>If the fires of last week weren't enough to ignite excitement for the term ahead, then this week's spell - Confringo - will surely get us going with a bang! Building on last week's knowledge of the fire triangle, we will take great fuels, like rubbing alcohol and lycopodium, an energetic powder made from the spores of a moss, and thoroughly mix them with oxygen to create explosive fuel-air mixtures. Flames will rise, fires will whoosh out of flasks, and dragon breath will be unleashed. However, by trapping all these hot gases and building enough pressure, we will create mini-explosions that will send ping pong balls flying through the air.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>As we make our way back from the Sun, we will slow down this week to answer a few myths about Space. More specifically, myths about Space's supposed hostility to life. What actually happens to human bodies in the vacuum of Space? Would they explode? Could they shout for help? Before we answer these pressing questions, we will investigate the nature of sound and how it travels through solids, liquids and gases, as well as experiment with the air pressure within us and around us to gravity-defying results. Then, it's time to fire up the vacuum chamber to recreate a tiny bit of Space within the lab and sort fact from fiction.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Hydrogen, being the simplest of the elements, makes up 90% of all the atoms in the Universe. It is so prevalent that much of chemistry is a dance where hydrogen atoms switch partners. We get hands-on with one such dance this week as we use the pH scale to admire hydrogen's moves and identify acids and bases. At the extremes of pH, these chemicals can be deadly, but moderate ones are found all around us. By squeezing the juice out of some red cabbage, we will extract an indicator that will use colour to sort household chemicals by their pH. Then, using colour as their guide again, can we find the right mix to neutralise these acids and bases?</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>With the long journey from Platform 9 3/4 complete and the Sorting Hat placing us in the house we knew we always belonged, it’s time for our first spell - Incendio - perfect for warming up the chill around Hogwarts. Now, starting fires is something we humans are very good at. The right fuel, our oxygen-rich atmosphere, a kick of heat, and... incendio! Fire! But rather than going primitive and rubbing sticks or banging rocks, last week, we got electric. Using piezoelectric crystals that turned our blows, smacks, and even our voices into electricity, we generated the sparks of heat we needed to ignite nitrocellulose - a super flammable type of paper - and shoot it out of our wands in a fireball!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>With so many possible misconceptions to choose from, knowing where to begin would have been tough. But a Dubai summer that shows no signs of letting up made the decision easy - Sun myths, it is! Is it yellow? Is it better to wear lighter colours to stay cool? Can you really cook an egg on the pavement or the hood of a car? Last week’s lesson was an exploration of all things solar as we shone light through milk to explain the many colours of the Sun and sky, tried to pop different coloured balloons using magnifying glasses and high-powered lasers, and built solar ovens that were more effective (and safer!) at cooking eggs than hot, sun-baked cars!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Periodic Table may look daunting,  but it has to be! This dense collection of squares and symbols is a list of all the elements - the different types of atoms - that can and do exist in our universe. Or simply put, it is the complete list of ingredients our universe has to work with to cook up all the material things in it. And very little separates one element from another. Take the simplest elements - hydrogen and helium; a single proton is the difference between a squeaky voice and a fiery explosion. Armed with this knowledge, we began by exploring familiar chemical reactions as not just chemicals being mixed, but as atoms of elements teaming up to form molecules that then swap and switch teammates to create new chemicals. A whole lot of fizz later, our journey has begun!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>SCIENCE BEHIND THE WAND Focus the power of science through the wand to leave the muggle world behind.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>MYTH BUSTERS Join the mission to debunk commonly held beliefs and sort out fact from fiction.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>PERIODIC PIONEERS Travel across the Periodic Table and experiment with the elements that truly matter.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>COOKING UP SCIENCE Transform the lab into a kitchen and experiment up some mouth-watering treats.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>RAMPANT REACTIONS Witness how the smallest particles cause the biggest reactions.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>CHEMISTRY IN PLAIN SIGHT Discover the chemistry hiding under our noses makes our lives safer, cleaner and brighter.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>WEATHERING THE STORM Witness how weather's simple principles are unleashed into breathtaking storms.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>STONE AGE TO SPACE AGE Explore how human ingenuity has taken us from open savannahs to distant worlds.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>PERIODIC PIONEERS Journey across the Periodic Table of Elements by experimenting with ingredients that truly matter.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>HISTORY OF SCIENCE Step into the shoes of great scientists and relive humanity’s giant leaps in scientific understanding.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>THE ELECTROMAGNETIC KID Leave the comic books behind and see how electricity and magnetism can give you actual superpowers</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>RAMPANT REACTIONS Delve deeper into the chemical world and witness how the smallest particles cause the biggest reactions.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>GLOBAL SCIENCE EXPLORER Set off on a worldwide expedition to explore the science behind our planet’s most extreme wonders.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>CHEMISTRY IN PLAIN SIGHT Discover the chemistry hiding under our noses, and explore how it makes our lives safer, cleaner and brighter.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>STONE AGE TO SPACE AGE Explore how human ingenuity has taken us from the savannahs to distant worlds.</image:caption>
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