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From April to October, school students (up to Year 8) have the opportunity to have our experts answer their questions on a range of topics from space/astronomy to globalisation, with the topic changing each month.

Is mercury a liquid or a metal and why?

MATERIAL WORLD: Arla Bennett, aged 8 from Oakura School, ...
  • MATERIAL WORLD: Arla Bennett, aged 8 from Oakura School, Taranaki asked this question

Why does bread get bigger when it is cooking?

MATERIAL WORLD: Room 1, Hampton Hill School, Tawa asked this question
  • MATERIAL WORLD: Room 1, Hampton Hill School, Tawa asked this question

How do birds stay in the sky?

PHYSICAL WORLD: Students from South Wellington Intermediate asked this question
  • PHYSICAL WORLD: Students from South Wellington Intermediate asked this question

Why do your ears pop in planes?

PHYSICAL WORLD: Students from South Wellington Intermediate asked this question
  • PHYSICAL WORLD: Students from South Wellington Intermediate asked this question

What is gravity?

PHYSICAL WORLD: Students from Ross Intermediate asked this question
  • PHYSICAL WORLD: Students from Ross Intermediate asked this question

Where does the wind come from?

PHYSICAL WORLD: Students from Paekakariki School asked this question
  • PHYSICAL WORLD: Students from Paekakariki School asked this question

Why can ships float?

PHYSICAL WORLD: Students from Aquinas College asked this question
  • PHYSICAL WORLD: Students from Aquinas College asked this question

Why do meteors fly fast?

SPACE/ASTRONOMY: Students from room 4 at Willowbank School, Auckland asked this question.
  • SPACE/ASTRONOMY: Students from room 4 at Willowbank School, Auckland asked this question.

How do planets and stars form?

SPACE/ASTRONOMY: Students from Willowbank School asked this question.
  • SPACE/ASTRONOMY: Students from Willowbank School asked this question.

How many moons are there?

SPACE/ASTRONOMY: Students from Willowbank School asked this question.
  • SPACE/ASTRONOMY: Students from Willowbank School asked this question.

How are bones made?

LIVING WORLD: Liam Monaghan, who is aged 10 and a student at Waikanae School,...
  • LIVING WORLD: Liam Monaghan, who is aged 10 and a student at Waikanae School, asked this question.

Why can monarch butterflies eat toxic swan plants?

LIVING WORLD: Ruby Smith aged 8 from Balclutha...
  • LIVING WORLD: Ruby Smith aged 8 from Balclutha Primary School asked "Why do monarch butterflies only eat swan plants because we thought that swan plants were toxic - s...

What were computers originally made for and what difference did it make to society when people started to use them at home?

  • TECHNOLOGY: Rueben Brudeikin, aged 10 from Churchill Park School, asked this question.

How does a BBQ thermometer work?

TECHNOLOGY: Max Bamford Campbell from Churchill Park School asked this question.
  • TECHNOLOGY: Max Bamford Campbell from Churchill Park School asked this question.

How does a light bulb make light?

TECHNOLOGY: Room 5 from Churchill Park School asked this question.
  • TECHNOLOGY: Room 5 from Churchill Park School asked this question.

How does cement stick bricks together?

TECHNOLOGY: Room 5 from Churchill Park School submitted this question.
  • TECHNOLOGY: Room 5 from Churchill Park School submitted this question.

How come when you spray fly spray by the smoke alarm it goes off?

TECHNOLOGY: Pretorius, aged 8 fr...
  • TECHNOLOGY: Pretorius, aged 8 from Hampton Hill School, Tawa, Wellington asked this question.

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