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A Weevil Riddle - back by popular demand!
Administrator

There are five vehicles in the car park. 1. The airship leaves at six and carries a crate of chickenosauruses.
2. The vehicle in the middle is driven by a slime mould.
3. The transforming motorbike leaves at nine.
4. The horse-powered car driven by a c [ ... ]


Stepping Out in Style This Winter?
Chien Hau Lim, Illustrated by Chien Hau Lim
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Physics Prize: Awarded to Lianne Parkin, Sheila Williams, and Patricia Priest of the University of Otago, New Zealand, for demonstrating that, on icy footpaths in wintertime, people slip and fall less often if they wear socks on the outside of their  [ ... ]


The Weevil Song
Andy Blackburn, Illustrated by Mia Balashova
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To be sung to the tune of "A Modern Major General" or, alternatively, Tom Lehrer's Elements Song.

This is the very model of a Weevil science article,
We look at funny naming of a subatomic particle
The quark and its six "flavours"? Why, the very not [ ... ]


Airships: Back Without a Bang?
Joshua Nazareth

The development of the Zeppelin LZ1 by Count Zeppelin marked the golden age for airships in the early 20th century. After a gradual decline in their use due to the invention of fixed-wing aircraft and the infamous Hindenburg disaster, many thought th [ ... ]


Solo: the Pedal-Powered Car
David Ennever

Back in the summer of 2008, a small manufacturing company in Hungary announced a new car. A small, three-seater, city kind of car. They showed off a prototype to the world's press, announced their intention to begin mass production in 2012, and gave  [ ... ]


Is YOUR Chin Secretly a Colony of Death?
David Ennever, Illustrated by Mia Balashova
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Public Health Prize: Awarded to Manuel Barbeito, Charles Mathews, and Larry Taylor of the Industrial Health and Safety Office, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA, for determining by experiment that microbes cling to beardedscientists. I want you to imagine [ ... ]


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