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Have you been reading about useful explosions in Whizz Pop Bang’s Explosive Science edition?

Watch explosives being used to demolish the cooling towers of an old power station here:

It’s the Didcot demolition in action!

Find out more in Whizz Pop Bang: Explosive Science, on sale now!

This month’s Whizz Pop Bang magazine is all about explosions so to celebrate, we’re giving away some arty kits that allow children to create explosions of colour!

Create wild and surprising effects and watch as swirls of rainbow colour magically appear as you draw with this Crayola Colour Explosion set! The unique colour-reveal markers work with the special Colour Explosion paper to reveal hidden swirls of rainbow colours and amazing designs. Each set includes lots of multicoloured pages, two colour-reveal marker pens and a stencil.

We’ve got ten sets to give away to ten lucky Whizz Pop Bang fans! Just answer this question in the comments to be in with a chance of winning:

Which of these words can be used to describe a horse with irregular patches of two colours on its coat?

1. Pie face
2. Pie crust
3. Piebald

This competition closes at midnight on 2nd December 2019. For full terms and conditions visit whizzpopbang.com/terms

Have you been reading about explosions in space in Whizz Pop Bang: Explosive Science? Watch scientists use powerful lasers to recreate a tiny version of a supernova on earth!

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Have you been reading the interview with Kate Biberdorf in Whizz Pop Bang’s KABOOM: EXPLOSIVE SCIENCE issue where she tells us how to make oobleck? Or perhaps you just want to watch an oobleck slime video? Here’s the non-Newtonian, gloopy, sticky, drippy stuff in action!

The Slow Mo Guys made some oobleck (check out our recipe below), coloured it red, put it on a speaker, turned on some music and filmed the gloopy fluid dancing. It looks unreal!

Wondering: what is oobleck? Kate Biberdorf says:

“If you mix water and cornflour in a bowl, you can make this freaky non-Newtonian fluid. It’s one of the craziest things to hold because the oobleck will drip through your fingers even though the solid feels like a solid.”

Here is the Whizz Pop Bang recipe for oobleck:

Mix 225 g of cornflour with around 230 ml of water (and a few drops of food colouring, if you like). This will create a goo that feels liquid when you handle it gently, but solid if you hit it with a spoon.

Watch the whole video here:

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Do you know a mini entomologist who would like to show off their love of minibeasts? These books feature beautiful, accurately illustrated tattoos of real insects (that can be cut out, stuck on to skin and washed off) alongside stacks of brilliant bug facts! 

Five lucky Whizz Pop Bang fans will win CREEPY, CRAWLY TATTOO BUGS and FLUTTERY, FRIENDLY TATTOO BUTTERFLIES AND OTHER INSECTS – that’s two books, or 141 tattoos, for each winner!  

Answer this question in the comments to be in with a chance of winning:

Which one is a type of insect?

1. Praying mantis
2. Spraying mantis
3. Neighing mantis

This competition closes at midnight on 31st October 2019. For full terms and conditions visit whizzpopbang.com/terms

Did you know it’s World Space Week?

 🌎🌖 World Space Week runs from the 4th-10th October, and is an international celebration of all things space. It focuses on science and technology and its role in the past, present and future of mankind, a way of not only promoting the work that countries do together to explore space, but also how important space technology is to life on Earth. This year’s theme is “The Moon: Gateway to the Stars.”

To help you celebrate, try our FREE air-powered rocket activity – keeping scrolling to find a download containing all you need to print and cut your own rocket!

Have you been reading 10 Awesomely Amazing Explosions in the Wild in Whizz Pop Bang: Explosive Science? Or are you intrigued by bombardier beetles and curious about squirting cucumbers? Then scroll on, because we have got some incredible videos for you!

From spreading their seeds to escaping from predators, there are all sorts of reasons for wildlife to burst, boom and blast. See some of these incredible exploding creatures and plants in action here! 

When under threat, Bombardier beetles mix two chemicals together in its abdomen, causing an explosive reaction that fires out jets of boiling toxic liquid. This makes a predator vomit the beetle out to safety!

This video shows the poisonous squirting cucumber detaching from its stem and firing seeds explosively at the touch of a finger:

The dung-dwelling pilobolus fungus uses a ‘squirt gun’ mechanism to fire its spores far and wide. The spores that land on plants are eaten by cows and then pooed out, and the cycle begins again!

The dynamite tree has toxic, pumpkin-shaped pods that explode with a loud ‘boom’, shooting out seeds at speeds of over 200 km/h!

Read more about exploding ants and termites, pistol shrimp, Himalayan Balsam, hairy bittercress exploding beached whales and more in 10 Awesomely Amazing Explosions in the Wild in Whizz Pop Bang: Explosive Science, on sale now!