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AWESOME NEWS AND AMAZING FACTS

Dancing rats, Shaun the Sheep’s Moon mission and what makes poos float!

DRAMATIC STATIC

Investigate shocking science as you float a jellyfish, create lightning in your mouth and become a paper snake charmer!

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Discover the incredible ways that electric eels stun their prey and navigate – zzzap!

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Race around this thunderous game – just try to avoid the lightning!

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Turn the balloons used in this issue’s experiments into a set of juggling balls.

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Make a static-powered spinning umbrella and a floating boat, then solve some riddles.

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INTERVIEW WITH A SCIENCE HERO

Karen Kosiba is a scientist who chases electric storms as part of her job!

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HOW STUFF WORKS

Find out how LEDs help light up our homes.

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Electric animals! Discover the shocking truth about sharks, echidnas and more…

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Meet the Founding Father of America who also made some important scientific discoveries: Benjamin Franklin.

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Ask our robot, Y, your burning science questions and share all of your adventures in science with the club.

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DANCING RATS!

SINGING BATS!

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Researchers in Denmark have found that bats have a better vocal range than famous human singers. Most people can only cover three octaves (an octave is eight musical notes), while singers like Mariah Carey and Prince are famous for being able to cover five. Bats, however, have a vocal range of seven octaves! Some of the very low frequency sounds bats make when they’re annoyed with each other are only used by humans in some kinds of heavy metal music and Tuvan throat singing. By filming inside the bats’ voice boxes, the researchers discovered that, like humans, bats make these low sounds using special folds located above their vocal cords.

Dancing was once thought to be something only humans did, but new research has found that rats instinctively move in time to rhythmic music. Ten rats fitted with equipment to measure their head movements were played piano music at different speeds. The results showed that the rats synchronised their movements to the music – and they did this best when listening to music with a similar tempo to the classical music enjoyed by humans.

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BEES BUZZ WITH STATIC ELECTRICITY

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Honeybee swarms produce more electricity than a thundercloud. Researcher Ellard Hunting made the discovery by chance – he was out studying the weather when he noticed an increase in atmospheric electric charge on his monitors. There were no storm clouds around, but there was a swarm of honeybees from a nearby hive, out looking for a new home. Dr Hunting already knew that bees carry a positive electric charge – static electricity is what makes negatively charged pollen stick to them. But the voltage generated by a whole swarm of bees was a big surprise! We still don’t know if the swarms use this electric charge in some way or if it’s just the result of friction between the bees’ wings and the air.

During its journey, Orion broke the record for the furthest a human-carrying spacecraft had travelled from Earth – a whopping 434,500 miles!

FLOATERS AND SINKERS

The age-old mystery of why some poos float and other poos sink has been solved – by accident! In the past, it was thought that ‘floaters’ contained more fat than ‘sinkers’. Then, in the 1970s, a scientist experimenting on his own floating poo found that gas was responsible for its buoyancy, but he didn’t know where the gas came from. Fast forward to 2022, and scientists studying germ-free mice (that have no bacteria in their guts) noticed that the poos of these mice always sank, whereas in normal mice about half the poos floated. When they put normal gut bacteria into the stomachs of the germ-free mice, they started producing floating poos – proving that the gas that makes floaters float is produced by gut bacteria.

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NASA’s Orion spacecraft has completed its 26-day journey around the Moon – and sent back some amazing photos! Part of the Artemis Moon mission, the Orion capsule is designed to carry people, but this was an uncrewed test flight. Humans haven’t visited the Moon for 50 years, but NASA plans to send the next astronauts there in a few years’ time. On this voyage, the spacecraft’s only occupants were three ‘moonikins’ (fake astronaut mannequins designed to measure the environment of the capsule), NASA’s mascot Snoopy (a small stuffed toy whose job was to float around as an indicator of zero gravity) and CBBC’s Shaun the Sheep!

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Have you ever had an electric shock when you touched a shopping trolley or car door or taken off a woolly hat to find your hair standing on end?

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These things are all caused by

static electricity . So, what’s happening?

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It all starts with… ATOMS! Everything is made of teeny tiny atoms. Each atom is made of even smaller parts, or particles.

Protons have

a positive charge, written as

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have no charge.

WE’RE FREE!

Sometimes, electrons can break free from atoms. When electricity flows along a wire, that’s actually a flow of free electrons. We call it an electric current.

Electrons have

a negative charge, written as Positive and negative charges pull towards each other, which helps to hold atoms together.

flowing electrons

Static electricity

doesn’t do this. Instead of flowing, electrons build up in an object. copper wire

GETTING ZAPPED!

Here’s how you get a static shock from a door handle. As you move on a carpet, electrons rub off onto you. Now you have extra electrons, and a negative charge. Particles with opposite charges attract (pull together). Particles with the same charges repel (push apart). So, when you reach towards the door, your extra electrons push the electrons in the door away, leaving a positive charge nearest to you. This attracts your extra electrons, and they JUMP across the gap very fast. They go so fast, they heat up the air, creating a tiny spark.

Arrrgh! Ouch!

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So why does static electricity make your hair stick up?

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Opposite charges attract

Like charges repel

Water bending

Charge a blown-up balloon* or plastic ruler by rubbing it on some woolly fabric for 30 seconds. Hold it near a thin stream of water from a tap or showerhead, and the water should bend towards it.

When your hair rubs on a hat, it loses electrons and gets a positive charge. As all your hairs have the same kind of charge they repel each other – and that makes them stand on end!

What’s an electron’s favourite kind of music? Shock ’n’ roll!

The hat collects electrons, and gets a

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Let’s go!

*Instead of tying your balloon, hold it shut or secure with a food clip or elastic band. Then you can reuse it for the Eco Club activity!

Electrons have rubbed off onto the balloon, giving it a negative charge.

Make a dan cing snake

Cut out a circle of tissue paper, then cut it into a spiral to make a snake. Use a charged plastic ruler or balloon to make the snake dance!

negative charge. So if you hold it above your head, it will attract your hair, and pull it up!

The ro lling can Lie a clean, empty drink can on its side and hold a charged balloon near the can. It should pull it along!

Static electricity

happens when electrons build up in an object.

A cat helped a scientist to discover static electricity! Answer on page 34

THEY ’VE ESCAPED!

How many loose electrons like this can you find hiding on this page? Check your answer on page 34.

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Luckily, a static shock from a door handle is pretty small. But there are much bigger static shocks out there: lightning strikes! That’s right, lightning is a massive, incredibly powerful static electric spark.

In a thundercloud, strong winds blow ice crystals up and down They rub together and gather static charges

Negative charge collects at the bottom of the cloud Positive charges collect on the ground below the cloud The electrons jump across the gap as a giant spark – lightning!

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If you get caught in a thunderstorm, here’s how to stay safe:

STRUCK BY LIGHTNING!

The lightning jumps across the smallest possible gap, so it often hits tall objects like buildings or trees. The powerful electricity can crack them apart or set them on fire. Or, if it strikes a person or animal, it can be HORRIBLY dangerous – even deadly.

Shelter inside a building or vehicle as soon as you can. Avoid hilltops and flat, open areas. Don’t stand under a tree. Avoid water.

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CONDUCTOR TEST TO FLOW OR NOT TO FLOW?

Some materials, called conductors, let electricity flow through them easily. Others don’t – they’re called insulators. Metals are good conductors, whereas plastic, rubber and glass are insulators. Static electricity builds up when an insulator stops electricity from flowing easily. Instead of moving, the electrons are static (still).

What do you call London when the electricity stops working? Londoff!

A rubber balloon is an insulator, so static charge can build up.

Metals conduct electricity, so if you've built up a static charge you might get a small shock when you touch a car.

You can give a balloon or a plastic ruler a static charge by rubbing it, but does it work with everything? Try it and see…

Yo u will need

Small bits of tissue paper Woolly fabric (or use your hair!) A selection of small objects, such as • a plastic spoon • a metal spoon • a wooden ruler • a glass jar • a plastic pen • a cardboard tube

What you do

1. Rub each object on the woolly fabric for 30 seconds. 2. See if it has enough static charge to pick up bits of tissue paper. 3. Record which materials work best. Why do you think some don’t work?

M AK E LI GHTN IN G IN YO UR M OUTH ! All you need is an extra strong mint, a mirror and a dark room.

A shopping trolley has rubber wheels, which stop charge from flowing away.

Lightning never strikes the same place twice Answer on page 34

First, stand in complete darkness for five minutes to let your eyes adjust. Then, facing the mirror and keeping your mouth open, CRUNCH a mint between your teeth. You should see a brief glow! This is a kind of energy called triboluminescence (say try-bow-loom-in-ESS-unce). Crushing the sugar creates small electric charges, which make sparks, just like tiny lightning!

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Printers use static electricity to arrange toner (powdered ink) in the shape of whatever you’re printing.

Static electricity can cause problems, but sometimes it’s super useful. When you peel clingfilm from the roll, it picks up a static charge, and that’s what makes it cling to things!

It works on plastic and glass, as they’re insulators. But not on metal, as the charge flows away.

Static electricity is what makes clingfilm cling!

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You DON’T want sparks to fly when there’s lots of flammable fuel around, like when a passenger jet is being refuelled. So airport staff use special cables to connect all their equipment to the ground so that any static charges flow away.

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What do you call deadly lightning in the sea? A great white spark!

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FLYING JELLYFISH

A SPARK OF LIFE In Mary Shelley’s famous story, Dr Frankenstein uses a lightning strike to bring the monster he has created to life.

Use static electricity to ma ke a jellyfish fly through the air !

This isn’t really possible, but our bodies DO use electricity to carry signals, like the signals that zoom along our brain cells when we think.

Yo u will need

A blown-up balloon A very thin plastic bag (e.g. a veg bag from a greengrocer) Woolly fabric (or use your hair!) Scissors Marker pen (optional)

FOUL FACT Italian scientists Luigi Galvani and Lucia Galeazzi Galvani were fascinated by this ‘animal electricity’. In 1780, they discovered that the muscles in a dead frog’s leg twitched when electricity flowed through it. Their nephew Giovanni Aldini went even further and tried (unsuccessfully) to bring a hanged prisoner back to life! These experiments gave Mary Shelley the idea for Frankenstein.

W h a t y o u do

1. Cut a strip about 3 cm wide down the side of the bag.

Scientists think that long, long ago, lightning strikes could have helped to start life on Earth, by hitting rocks and releasing chemicals that were needed to make the first living cells.

2. Hold the closed end, and carefully cut the strip into tentacles, stopping before the end. 3. If you like, draw on some eyes! 4. Now charge up your balloon with static by rubbing it on the woolly fabric for 30 seconds.

What’s going on in the monster’s brain? Find a path for the electric signals, from one side to the other. Check your answer on page 34.

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5. Ask someone to hold the balloon while you charge up the jellyfish in the same way. 6. Now throw the jellyfish in the air, hold the balloon underneath, and see if you can make your jellyfish fly!

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Both the balloon and the jellyfish have a negative charge, so they should repel each other.

I'M ALIVE!

I didn’t know I could fly!

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Wearing thick rubber boots and gloves, our vet Joe Inglis is nervously exploring the rivers of South America to find out more about these awesome natural electric batteries.

Fishy families Electric eels are not actually eels at all (even though they are long and thin like true eels). They are a type of freshwater fish called a knifefish and are from a large family that includes catfish and piranha fish. There are three species of electric eels, and they all live in the muddy rivers and swamps of northern South America.

Tail-tastic Reaching up to 2.5 metres long and over 20 kg in weight, electric eels’ bodies are mainly made up of their tails, which account for 80% of their length. A long fin running along the underside of their bodies is used to power them along in the water.

Air time Although electric eels are fish, they breathe air, taking large mouthfuls every few minutes and absorbing the oxygen into their blood through the insides of their mouths. As they don’t need water to breathe like most fish, electric eels can survive on land for several hours, provided their skins are kept moist.

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Battery power Running along the sides of their tails are electric organs which the eels use to generate powerful electric currents. The main organ is made up of long chains of specialised cells called electrocytes. These are like tiny battery cells, and they are joined together one after another, which is just like connecting lots of little batteries together in series.


What a shock! When an eel locates a prey fish, its brain triggers the opening of tiny channels into each electrocyte. This allows the stored energy to flow out through its skin and into the prey, stunning or even killing it. Electric eels are the most powerful of all electric fish, and their shocks have even been known to kill people, although this is very rare.

600 volts The maximum charge produced by electric eels. That’s more than twice the 240 volts we use in domestic electricity supplies!

Sixth sense Electric eels can leap out of the water to deliver electric shocks. Answer on page 34

As well as using electricity to stun their prey, electric eels also use it to find their way around. A smaller electrical organ produces around 10 volts of electricity, which the eels use to locate objects and animals close to them by sensing how they distort the electrical field.

How many eels are there in the picture? Check your answer on page 34.

Fantastic fibres Studying how electric eels generate and control their power has led scientists to come up with ideas for electrical fibres that could be woven into clothes and power devices, such as watches or LED lights (but hopefully not for shocking your friends!). © Kseniia Mnasina / Shutterstock.com

What’s an electric eel’s favourite treat? Shock-a-lot!

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Power your way to the finish in this thunderous board game, but watch out for the thunderstorm headed your way…

FINISH

Yikes, you’ve been struck by lightning! You’re zapped back to the start.

You’re under a tree, which could attract lightning. Move back two spaces to safety.

Look out – there’s a THUNDERstorm coming!

START

You get an energy boost from the Sun, like an oriental hornet! Buzz forwards two spaces.

You’ve been shocked by an electric eel! Jump back one space.


You will need

What you do

At least two players A coin The player counters on page 19

1. Cut out the player counters on page 19. Each player should choose one and then place it at the start.

2. The youngest player goes first and play moves clockwise. 3. When it’s your turn, toss the coin. If it lands on heads, move one space and if it lands on tails, move two spaces. 4. Follow any instructions on the spaces you land on.

Lightning loves water and you’re next to a lake! Move back two spaces to safety.

5. The first person to the finish is the winner!

If lightning strikes the ground, it can send an electric current up to 30 metres away, so it’s not a good idea to have your chest and head in contact with the ground. Whoops, you’re lying flat on the ground in a storm, which is risky! Go back one space.

You move to lower ground, away from open spaces. Move on two spaces.

You’re safe in a building that has a lightning conductor. Whizz on two spaces!

When thunder roars, go indoors! You’re wearing woolly socks and get a shock from a doorknob! Go back one space.

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BALLOON JUGGLING BALLS

Turn the balloons you used in this issue’s experiments into an epic set of juggling balls!

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A piece of scrap paper Scissors Sticky tape Balloons (two for each ball) A clean, dry bottle Filling for your ball (see purple box) A ½ cup measure A pin

Turn the bottle upside down so the filling goes into the balloon. Adjust the amount of filling in the balloon if you’d prefer it to be larger or smaller. Make a note of the final amount of filling used so that you can make more balls the same size.

Squeeze all of the air out of the balloon, then ask an adult to tie a knot in it, as close to the filling as possible. Cut the rolled end off the balloon.

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Putting the ‘knot’ end in first, stretch the second balloon over the ball.

Tip

Cut the neck off another balloon in a curved shape.

If there is any air trapped in your ball, make a tiny hole with a pin and squeeze it out.

I’d love to see your juggling balls! Take a photo and ask an adult to tag us on social media @whizzpopbangmag and email it to Y@whizzpopbang.com

Give juggl ing a go by follow ing this tutor ial: bit.ly /3TtT qRb

Learning to juggle is a great way to improve your coordination.

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Even biodegradable balloons can take a long time to break down, so it’s important that they aren’t left anywhere where they could impact the environment. Never release balloons filled with helium into the sky, as animals may try to eat them when they land.

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Repeat these steps twice more to make a full set of juggling balls!

It’s up to us to save the planet. Lots of small actions can make a BIG difference! Balloons can also be used to keep pots of slime or paint from drying out. Cut off the neck and stretch the balloon over the rim of a cup or small dish to make a lid.

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STATIC-POWERED BOAT!

Make a floating boat and then move it around on the water using a static charge.

Yo u will need

3The boat template 3Scissors 3 A large tray of water (or a filled bath) 3 A balloon or plastic ruler 3A woolly jumper 3Margarine or butter

See a video of the boat being folded here: bit.ly/3XP0gnt

4. Fold the corners into the centre.

5. Fold flaps up on both sides.

What yo u do

1. Cut out the boat template.

2. Fold in half along 3. Fold in half

6. Put thumbs

inside and open. Flatten into a square.

line A. Open flat.

along line B.

7. Tuck corner of

8. Fold up on both sides.

flaps under the other side.

13. Cover the bottom

of your boat with butter or margarine and then float it in a large tray of water or in the bath.

9. Put thumbs inside and open up.

10. Take hold of the

two sides near the top and pull outwards.

11. Press flat.

12. Open out

to complete your boat.

14. Rub a balloon or

plastic ruler on a woolly jumper. Now hold it near the boat and watch it glide across the water!

Colour in the white boats so there is one of each of these four boats in every row, column and block of four squares.

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PULL OUT pages 17-20 and get making! SPINNING UMBRELLA! Yo u will need 3 The template 3 Scissors 3 Glue 3 A pencil

3 Sticky tack or modelling clay 3 A balloon or plastic ruler 3 Woolly fabric, or your hair!

What yo u do

1. Cut out the picture of Emmi and the umbrella, snipping into the centre along the navy blue line. 2. Fold and unfold each of the lines on the umbrella. 3. Add glue to the panel marked ‘GLUE’ and stick the red panel on top of it. 4. Place a lump of sticky tack or modelling clay onto a flat surface and press the pencil into it so it stands up with the point at the top. 5. Stick Emmi onto the pencil with a bit more sticky tack. 6. Place the umbrella canopy on top of the pencil. 7. Rub the balloon or ruler on the fabric or your hair for 30 seconds. 8. Hold the balloon or ruler next to the paper and move it around the umbrella. Try stopping and moving back in the opposite direction.

Riddles

Use the power of static electricity to make a brilliant brolly!

Yo u should find

Your paper umbrella spins around! When the balloon or ruler is rubbed on the woolly fabric or hair, it picks up negative electrons and becomes negatively charged. When you bring the balloon or ruler near the paper, its negative charge pushes away the electrons in the paper. That side of the paper becomes positively charged and is attracted to the balloon or ruler, so it moves towards it. Find a printable version of the pullout here: bit.ly/3XOJ8hN

1. I can be forked but I’m not a tongue, I’m bright but I’m not the Sun, I’m electric but not in a wire, If I touch a tree, you might see fire! What am I? 2. What five-letter word has six left when you take two away? 3. I only appear where there’s light, but if the light shines on me, I’ll disappear. What am I?

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Interview with a SCIENCE HERO

In my job I get to... chase electric storms! Karen uses physics to study severe weather. If you have any questions of your own for Karen, you can email her on

Supercells are my favourite type of storm. I am amazed by their power!

They have a persistent, rotating updraft and usually produce severe weather, like es. strong winds, large hailstones and tornado ds Some people say that their rotating clou look like a spaceship or a corkscrew!

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I used to watch lightning with my dad at night.

I was fascinated and a bit afraid of severe weather when I was younger. Once, my neighbour’s chimney was struck by lightning and I was amazed that it could do damage. When I was about 12, a strong tornado hit a nearby town and my interest in them grew.

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I ride around in a truck with a radar on the back, scanning storms!

DOWs are loaded with equipment, inside and out.

The vehicle is called a DOW (doppler on wheels) and means you can drive into storms. It’s better than waiting for the weather to come to you! My team and I look at weather forecasts to work out where a storm could form, then we head for that spot in a DOW.

This giant aerial is used for radio communications.

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Collecting data in hurricanes is nerve-wracking – we actually go inside them!

It is very windy, but the risk of flooding and storm surges is more dangerous. I sit in a DOW for 12 hours, or as long as the hurricane lasts, and hope that we chose the right spot!

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Radars allow us to see what is happening inside storms.

We use the data collected to make time and space maps of the wind, rain and hail. We combine this with other measurements of wind, temperature, pressure and moisture to build a more complete picture of how supercells make tornadoes.

Karen collecting data inside a DOW

Studying storms can help us predict when a tornado will form.

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LED lights Look at a light in your house, your school or even your TV screen – it may well be produced by a light-emitting diode (LED). These high-tech light sources are smaller, longer-lived and much more energy efficient than traditional light bulbs, making them ideal for all sorts of applications, from streetlights to phone screens. Here’s how they work…

Inside the anvil is a

semiconductor die. This

is a wafer-like chip made from materials that allow electricity to flow through, but only in one direction.

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The top of the cathode is called the anvil.

When the power is turned on, electrons flow into the LED from the negative electrode, called the cathode.

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LED lights can be lots of different colours. Semiconductors made of different materials produce different wavelengths of light, which we see as different colours.

Starting from the loose ends, work out which string of lights will light up when you flip the switch. Write the colour here. In the middle of the semiconductor is a junction between two different layers. When electrons in one layer gain enough energy to cross this junction and drop into ‘holes’ in the other layer, light energy is released. This is called electroluminescence (say electro-loom-in-ESS-unce).

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A reflective cavity behind the semiconductor die reflects the emitted light so it shines out of the LED. Before LEDs were invented, electrical lighting used filament bulbs. This is how the earliest versions of these light bulbs worked:

A hard case made from epoxy resin protects the delicate electrical components inside and makes LED bulbs much less likely to break than traditional glass light bulbs.

Electricity flowed through a thin wire or filament, making it glow Clear glass bulb

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The electrical circuit is completed when the current flows into the positive electrode, called the anode.

The bulb had a special gas or a vacuum inside to stop the filament from burning away

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Guiana dolphins live

in murky waters where it’s hard to spot prey. However, they have electroreceptors in pits on their snouts that can sense electrical signals from fish, helping them to hunt.

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Geckos’ clever toes allow them to

climb up (and even upside down) on all sorts of surfaces. Scientists think that this is partly due to electrostatic forces, where the difference in charge between the geckos’ feet and the surface helps them cling on!

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When bumblebees gather pollen, their wings move so quickly that they create an electric field! This can alter the static electricity around a flower for a short time, letting other bees know that the pollen has already been collected.

Many skates and rays have electric organs in their tails, but about 60 species of electric rays have two electric organs on the sides of their heads. Some of them use this shock power to stun large prey, which they then swallow whole!

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The only known land mammal to sense the electricity produced by its prey is the echidna, which has receptors in its snout.


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Ampullae of Lorenzini are electric sense organs found in many types of electric fish. Sharks have about 1,000 of them, mainly around their heads, which are used to detect prey.

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Did you know that some spiders can fly? On sensing atmospheric electricity, they release many strands of silk which repel each other (in the same way that static makes your hair stand on end), creating a balloon-shaped sail which rises and floats on the breeze.

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The platypus’ beak is packed with 40,000 electroreceptors! It swoops this super sensitive detector through the water as it swims, hunting for crayfish and worms.

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Peter’s elephant nose fish

have trunk-like organs covered in electroreceptors. They detect nearby prey by using their tails to generate their own electric field, then detecting movement within it.

Ancient Egyptians are said to have used the shock from electric catfish to treat arthritis (painful joints)!

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Sensational Scientists

By Joanna Tubbs

Benjamin Franklin wasn’t just a sensational scientist, he was also a successful printer, politician and inventor – as well as one of the Founding Fathers of America!

At the age of 12 , Benjamin bega n work ing w ith h is brother James , who was a printer. He learned about all sorts of th ings from read ing the books he h elped to print. W hen James fou nded a wee kly newspaper, Ben jamin secretly w rote fu n ny letters to it, pr etending to be a middleaged woman called Silence Dogood. W hen James discovered wh o was w riting them, he wasn’t happy, and Benjamin ran away.

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When Benjamin went to a lecture about electricity he became fascinated by it. He began conducting experiments of his own, including the famous (and dangerous!) kite experiment. To test his theory that lightning was a kind of electricity, Benjamin is said to have gone out during a storm and flown a kite with a metal wire attached to the top and a key hanging down from its string. An electrical charge from the air travelled down the wet string to the key, which gave Benjamin a small shock when he touched it. No one knows for sure if Benjamin actually performed this experiment, but we do know that if the kite had been struck by lightning, he would have been killed!

Benjamin used his understanding of electricity to invent the lightning rod – a pointed rod of iron placed high on buildings at risk of being struck by lightning. In electrical storms, the lightning rod is struck and the electricity travels down a wire to the ground, protecting the building.

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How much can you remember from this issue? Test your knowledge with our super-duper quiz. Just tick the answers you think are correct, mark them using the answers on page 34 and then add up your score. If you need some help, check out the hints at the bottom of the page.

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What did Luigi Galvani and Lucia Galeazzi Galvani test with electric sparks?

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What did the woolly hat say to the scarf ? You hang around and I’ll go on ahead!

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What is a plasma? a) A ‘sea’ of charged particles b) A biodegradable plastic c) Green ghost slime

Need a hint? Find the answers by reading these pages… 1) Page 27 2) Page 5 3) Page 28 4) Page 23 5) Page 11 6) Page 13 7) Page 14 8) Page 35

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JOKES

First atom: “O h

no, I think I los t an electron.” Second atom: “Are you sure ?” First atom: “Y es, I’m positiv e!”

What did the proton tell the electron? Don’t be so negative!

What kind of plant generates the most electricity? A power plant!

My new jumper kept giving me electric shocks. So, I returned it to the shop and they gave me another one free of charge!

What was lightning ca lle 150 million d years ago? A Jurassic spark!

Page 7 – True/Untrue

Page 11 – Brain puzzle

TRUE: Ancient Greek scientist Thales gave a piece of amber a static charge by rubbing it on cat fur. Page 7 – Electrons puzzle

Page 18 – Boats puzzle

There are 18 electrons, not including the example one. ZZZAPPP! Ouch!

Have you ever had an electric shock when you touched a shopping trolley or car door or taken off a woolly hat to find your hair standing on end?

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It all starts with… ATOMS! Everything is made of teeny tiny atoms. Each atom is made of even smaller parts, or particles.

Protons have

a positive charge, written as

Neutrons

have no charge.

Sometimes, electrons can break free from atoms. When electricity flows along a wire, that’s actually a flow of free electrons. We call it an electric current.

Opposite charges attract

Like charges repel

So, what’s happening?

WE’RE FREE!

HAIR IN THE AIR! So why does static electricity make your hair stick up?

These things are all caused by

Positive and negative charges pull towards each other, which helps to hold atoms together. The hat collects electrons, and gets a

Static electricity

doesn’t do this. Instead of flowing, electrons build up in an object. copper wire

Here’s how you get a static shock from a door handle.

What’s an electron’s favourite kind of music? Shock ’n’ roll!

Arrrgh! Ouch!

ZAP!

As you move on a carpet, electrons rub off onto you. Now you have extra electrons, and a negative charge. Particles with opposite charges attract (pull together). Particles with the same charges repel (push apart). So, when you reach towards the door, your extra electrons push the electrons in the door away, leaving a positive charge nearest to you. This attracts your extra electrons, and they JUMP across the gap very fast. They go so fast, they heat up the air, creating a tiny spark.

*Instead of tying your balloon, hold it shut or secure with a food clip or elastic band. Then you can reuse it for the Eco Club activity!

Electrons have rubbed off onto the balloon, giving it a negative charge.

Make a dancing snake

Page 13 – True/Untrue

Cut out a circle of tissue paper, then cut it into a spiral to make a snake. Use a charged plastic ruler or balloon to make the snake dance!

negative charge. So if you hold it above your head, it will attract your hair, and pull it up!

The rolling can Lie a clean, empty drink can on its side and hold a charged balloon near the can. It should pull it along!

Static electricity

happens when electrons build up in an object.

A cat helped a scientist to discover static electricity! Answer on page 34

Page 25 – Lights puzzle

in action?

Let’s go!

Charge a blown-up balloon* or plastic ruler by rubbing it on some woolly fabric for 30 seconds. Hold it near a thin stream of water from a tap or showerhead, and the water should bend towards it.

When your hair rubs on a hat, it loses electrons and gets a positive charge. As all your hairs have the same kind of charge they repel each other – and that makes them stand on end!

a negative charge, written as

flowing electrons

GETTING ZAPPED!

SEE FOR YOURSELF! Want to see static electricity

Water bending

Electrons have

Answers

THEY ’VE ESCAPED!

How many loose electrons like this can you find hiding on this page? Check your answer on page 34.

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TRUE!: Electric eels have been observed leaping out of the water and shocking large animals such as horses that they see as a potential threat. Page 13 – Eels puzzle

Page 9 – True/Untrue

There are 17 eels in the picture.

UNTRUE: This is a popular saying, but it’s not true. Some tall buildings, like New York’s Empire State Building, get struck many times a year.

Page 17 – Riddles 1) Lightning 2) Sixty 3) A shadow

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Plasma ball A plasma ball is a round glass container that fills with streams of colourful light that look a bit like lightning bolts. The ball contains a mixture of gases and an electrode in the centre. A high voltage is passed through the electrode, which heats the surrounding gases, creating streaks of plasma inside the ball. Plasma is superheated matter that contains a ‘sea’ of free-moving charged particles that can conduct electricity. Electrons are conducted along streaks of plasma from the centre of the globe to its edge, towards EARTH. Your body conducts electricity and provides an easy path to Earth, so when you touch the globe, the plasma is drawn towards your fingers!

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