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We can build rockets that visit other planets and make robots like the one on page 18 that might be part of your family by the time you have kids.. Behind the Scenes of the New Movie Oz

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Earth really is a special planet It has water and an atmosphere that shelters us, the plants and animals from the worst of the sun’s rays We are part of a huge system called a biosphere In 1991 eight people were sealed into

a glass building that was completely closed off from the outside world The idea was to work out “the recipe” for the eco-systems that keep us alive They had a mini-ocean, rainforest, savannah area as well as farmland where they kept animals and grew fruit and vegetables The project was called Biosphere 2 and was successful, apart from problems controlling the levels of carbon dioxide and an explosion of the cockroach population!

The people spent two years inside, with a few bursts of extra oxygen, and showed that with some tweaks it might

be possible to build a module for humans to live on another planet There are millions of planets and so far we haven’t found a squeak of life anywhere else, but scientists are working out whether it might be possible for humans to live away from Earth As far as we know we have the only planet with life – and very intelligent life at that We can build rockets that visit other planets and make robots like the one on page

18 that might be part of your family by the time you have kids

But if we are so smart, why have we messed things up so badly? There is no simple answer to that Luckily we have lots

of clever ideas for making the planet a better place to live for future generations and the intelligence to realise that it’s up

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DEPARTMENTS

6 Pet Friends Forever 29 Calendar 49 Spot The Difference

23 Poster 43 Fun Stuff 50 Just Joking

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30 Cool Things Made from Recycled Materials

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Get Ready For Robots

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Logan International Airport near the city

at the airport border, he turns his head upside down to clean his downy coat

His white feathers are tipped with brown all white

He hears something, spins his head to look behind him and launches Like a stealth until his keen eyes find a target at the water’s edge He manoeuvres gracefully, stretches out his talons and snatches an him he killed it on impact Dinner is served.

T he winter wind blows across the open landscape Short grasses and bushes struggle to stay upright, but a snowy owl hovers effortlessly

in mid-air His powerful wings, with a total span of 1,5 metres, defies the wind and allows him to hang nearly motionless with his eyes fixed on a small rodent The owl whoosh! Aeroplane engines blast overhead, breaking the bird’s concentration and scaring the rat back underground

The young male owl began life in the Arctic about five months ago This winter

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Raptors on the Move

Snowy owls are nomads that migrate to each spring and autumn in a quest for food The airport is a popular winter destination in the northeast of America

short grass and rolling hills,” says Norman Smith, a raptor biologist and director of the Blue Hills Trailside Museum “There are lots of rodents and the airport is surrounded by water, so there are ducks and other waterfowl.”

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open

car and boat

The Humdinga is a vehicle that knows how to make a splash This truck can turn into a speedboat Unlike similar vehicles, the Humdinga can lift its wheels completely out of the water, allowing it

to speed through the waves Going

from street to surf is easy – just drive it down a ramp or beach until the wheels are submerged, then press

a button to fold up the wheels Now it’s a boat

The Humdinga is designed for disaster relief, such as bringing supplies to flood zones, but it also can be used for fun Picture yourself driving along the streets of Cape Town and straight into Table Bay for a lap around Robben Island Now that’s the way to go sightseeing

Simply pull down on the front to open the tub, fill it with water, and slip in under the suds A wireless touch screen panel lets you control underwater jets to massage your sorest muscles What a way

in use You can see right through the TV’s two clear screens When the TV

is turned on, the screen in the back turns black, providing a background for the picture that appears on the front screen Shut off the Invisio, and both screens

turn clear again Just remember you can’t really hide the Invisio if you get caught watching

TV before finishing your homework

Daniel Lisa

Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda

Rwema and Dukore, two young mountain gorillas, were lounging in their

rainforest home when they spotted something in the nearby bushes It was

a snare to catch animals with rope A hunter had left it there

Thinking quickly, the apes dashed over and pulled apart the rope trap

Noticing another snare a short distance away, the gorillas

destroyed it as well

Hunters set snares to catch game such as antelope But other

animals, including small apes, also get caught in these traps “Though

it’s possible they were just playing, we think they understood the snares

were dangerous, so they did something about it,” says Veronica Vecellio of

the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund Its team members witnessed the feat

To Veronica’s knowledge, no one has ever seen a young gorilla

dismantle a trap in the wild “These creatures are smart,” she says “Rwema

and Dukore showed what incredible things apes will do to protect their

families.” – John Micklos, Jr.

“I’ve seen felines play like this, but not rabbits,” says keeper Jessica Hamza “It was funny to watch her behave like a cat.”

As the animals grew up, the leopard moved in with his species and Lisa joined two monkeys “Now she acts like the monkeys,”

Jessica says “They climb together and groom one

another.” This little friend knows how to blend in! – Elisabeth Deffner

nothing gets past me!

Nearly 6 000 species of frogs hop, burrow, climb, swim and even soar in exotic

ecosystems around the world – and your own neighbourhood Some do startling things to

adapt and they are incredibly good at surviving “There’s such marvelous

diversity in frogs,” says National Geographic Emerging Explorer Lucy Cooke, who has

been a frog fan since she was a kid “You never get bored with them.” Here are ten frogs

whose freakish good looks and bizarre lifestyles will turn you into a frog fan.

FroG-ziLLa!

Tipping the scales at 3 kilograms and with a sitting length of 31,7 centimetres, the goliath frog from Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea is bigger than a chihuahua

It’s the world’s largest frog and can leap ten times its body length, or about three metres in one hop Its body and legs can stretch to

75 centimetres, a little longer than

a tennis racket

A group

of frogs is called an

army.

BiGGEST SmaLLEST DiSCovErY

In 2009, on the rainforest floor in Papua New Guinea, scientists discovered the planet’s smallest frog species, known only as

paedophryne amauensis It’s also the world’s

smallest vertebrate – animals with a backbone A couple of them could sit on a ten cent coin and still have room!

army.

by RuTh A MusGRAvE

Just before they hatch, he gobbles them up

The tadpoles grow and change into frogs safely inside his throat pouch “The pregnant male’s throat is a mass of wriggling tadpole tails,” Lucy says

“It’s incredible to see.” After 50 to 60 days inside this unusual nursery, the big day arrives and daddy burps

up more than a dozen baby frogs

Warning LaBeL

From the top, the Oriental fire-bellied toad from Korea, China and southeastern Russia appears to be a mild-mannered frog If threatened, though, it flashes its brightly coloured belly to warn predators they can look but shouldn’t touch Not only is it toxic, it’s covered with sharp warts

© stephen dalton / nature picture library

(big picture); © mark moffet / minden pictures

(golden poison frog); © pete oxford / nature

picture library (glass frog); © thomas marent /

minden pictures (horned frog); © d parer & e

parer-cook / auscape / minden pictures

(water-holding frog); thomas kitchin & victoria hurst /

leesonphoto all rights reserved (wood frog)

Clearly See-through

“Glass frogs are beautiful and delicate,” Lucy says

“They really seem to be made of glass.” These frogs from Central and South America are translucent (almost see-through, like fogged glass) Their camouflage makes the animals nearly invisible or look like a bump on a leaf Some even have green bones to really sell the invisibility act to predators

“If you flip one over, you can see its heart beating through its skin,” Lucy says

KiSS Me and CroaK

A golden poison frog has enough poison on its skin to kill several

men “It’s only about two centimetres long,” Lucy says “But it’s the

most poisonous vertebrate on the planet.” The tiny toxic frog from

Colombia doesn’t make its own poison It absorbs toxins from the

beetles, ants, flies, termites and crickets that it eats Unlike most

frogs, it boldly rests out in the open for everyone to see Its colour

warns enemies to stay away Being armed with enough poison to drop

half a soccer team means there’s no need to hide

Big gulp

Go ahead and yell, “Hey, big mouth!” The Amazonian horned frog won’t be offended Its mouth is 1,6 times wider than its entire body length It eats anything it can fit inside that mega mouth, including rodents, snakes, lizards and even frogs It swallows the prey whole Sometimes its eyes are bigger than its stomach Some Amazonian horned frogs have tried

to eat prey that was larger than themselves

Flying Frog

Why hop when you can fly? To escape predators or search for food, Wallace’s flying frogs glide from tree to tree These amphibians live high up in the rainforest canopy in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand Rather than climbing down one tree and up another, they fly “It’s like the superhero of the rainforest,” Lucy says With its webbed feet and side flaps of skin, this 10-centimetre-long frog can glide up to

15 metres

Waiting For Water

“Water-holding frog” is more than a name – it’s a lifestyle To survive between rains in the scorching Australian desert, this frog stores its own water

in its bladder and special sacs

It also burrows deep into the ground, where it creates

a waterproof cocoon out of layers of shed skin to hold

in its body’s water It waits weeks, months, even years for rain Then it digs out to eat and breed before returning underground to wait for the next rain Australia’s native people sometimes use the water-holding frog to quench their thirst They give it a gentle squeeze for a drink, then release it unharmed

Frog-sicle

During the winter, wood frogs hide beneath leaves throughout Alaska, Canada and parts of the northeastern United States They survive the winter by freezing and thawing with everything else When the final spring thaw arrives, the wood frog thaws as well and goes back to hopping and hunting

Filling up your car with liquid from animals and plants that lived millions of years ago is just so last century Petrol may well have had its day Instead of polluting the air with nasty chemicals and puffing out greenhouse gases, why not move along in an air-powered car? It won’t pollute the atmosphere and you can’t run out

of air “fuel”

How does it worK? The air has to

be compressed and stored in a tank like you might use for scuba diving When the compressed air is released, it can drive the pistons that power the engine

will it Happen? A French car manufacturer has made a hybrid car, which means it runs on a mixture of energy sources Its petrol engine will only kick in when you get close to 70 kilometres per hour This would save you a lot on petrol money and produce less harmful gases

To make a tree house, you saw planks and nail them down together to make a platform Then you start on the walls What

if you could make a tree house out of the tree instead? You wouldn’t have to come down at night either, because you’ll live there It would be your tree home

How does it work? People have been bending branches to form walls and fences for centuries Grafting is also an ancient trick It means tying tissue from one plant

to another Feed both and the new plant attaches itself to the host It becomes part of the same plant By bending branches and grafting you could grow a living tree house!

will it Happen? American architect Mitchell Joachim has designed buildings that are alive and others that have live parts He says you could grow villages, but it might take up to ten years before people can move in

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More than half of the population of South Africa live in cities Experts say within 18 years 300 million Chinese will move to their country’s cities Imagine all of them driving

to work or school in cars every day! That’s why town planners are thinking vertical is the way to go

How does it work? Take all the things that make a cool city to live in and place them in connected areas in a tall building It may be a good thing for the planet, because some studies show city people have smaller carbon footprints than their country cousins In cities of the future there will be small farms among the areas for living, working and relaxing That means food won’t have to be transported from far away, saving time and energy

will it Happen? Nearly a century ago the French architect Le Corbusier imagined sky cities: skyscrapers with 60 storeys, joined

by walkways, with glass walls and with an airport on the roof Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is getting the first skyscraper with an entire city inside it On its 133 storeys there will be luxury flats, malls, the world’s largest aquarium, a clinic, fancy hotels, restaurants and more When it opens in

2015, it will be the second-tallest building

in the world

It’s not just about finishing what’s on your plate or getting rid of the rubbish bin, it’s about removing waste all along the way

Restaurants often throw out piles of packaging and mounds of leftover food But there are simple things restaurant managers can do to reduce the waste

How does it work? Collecting paper, glass, cans and plastic for recycling is good, but some restaurants are cutting down on this, too One restaurant in Durban returns empty

juice bottles to the supplier, so they can be reused Some restaurants are growing food – one restaurant in the centre of Cape Town has

a veggie garden on its roof

will it Happen? Getting to zero is quite

a challenge America has a star system for how green a restaurant is This year’s greenest restaurant award went to Uncommon Ground

in Chicago It beat the competition by scoring well on about a hundred things like using salvaged furniture and non-bleached napkins

Taking the solar panel on your calculator

or your roof to a new level, engineers are looking at gathering solar power from space and beaming it back to Earth

How does it work? Curved mirrors direct sunlight onto solar cells The collected energy is beamed down to anywhere in the world using lasers or microwaves Sounds simple! It beats solar power on Earth as it could work

24 hours per day and it beats fossil fuel

as it doesn’t pollute The only problem is the huge cost of sending the dish into space

will it Happen? A plan was drawn up

in the 1970s by NASA but the cost would have been a trillion dollars, so nothing was done Now engineers at a Scottish university think they may have found a way to build it for less – a lot less

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You know you love pizza The ancient Greeks probably did,

too! More than 2 000 years ago the Greeks were making round, flat breads covered with oil, herbs, and spices In

1830, chefs in Naples, Italy, baked their crust in an oven

lined with rocks from a nearby volcano Some say that could have been the first pizzeria – and the restaurant is still open today Gobble up these other tasty titbits.

MUSHROOMS

are some seriously

freaky fungi They’ve

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and buried in dung and

some even glow in

made with the milk of a

cow, goat or sheep The

traditional way to make

mozzarella is with water

mAke your own PIZZA

The Margherita pizza was

created in Naples and has

the colours of the Italian

flag: red tomatoes, green

basil and white cheese Ask a

parent to help you make one

Bake pizza dough at

190 degrees Celsius for about 5 minutes

Brush the crust lightly with 1 teaspoon of olive oil

1 Top dough with four to five thin tomato slices,

a pinch each of dried oregano, salt and pepper

Sprinkle 1 cup of shredded mozzarella over dough

2 Bake until golden at 220 degrees for

10 to 12 minutes Sprinkle half a cup

of chopped basil over the top

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TOMATOES

can be red, orange, yellow, green, purple, and even striped

The RECORd for the world’s largest round pizza held by a supermarket in Norwood for 22 years was broken in December 2012 in Rome A team of five Italian chefs made a pizza that was

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