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How to add value to Bluey coins

How to add value to Bluey coins

Australia Post has released a new set of $2 Bluey coins, potentially inspiring a new generation of collectors who may one day make a ‘Dollarbuck’ if the hobby bounces back – find out what’s valuable

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Willy Wonka, eat your heart out

Willy Wonka, eat your heart out

Roald Dahl’s ‘pure imagination’ finds a spiritual home in Australia as Cadbury’s massive $150 million project to build the ultimate chocolate experience is unanimously approved by council

Is this ‘flying dolphin’ real or fake?

Is this ‘flying dolphin’ real or fake?

From flying dolphins to seagulls not being real, these fascinating wildlife facts will have you questioning everything you thought you knew about the wonderful world of animals

VIDEOScience and Technology

Robot runner trips over start line

Robot runner trips over start line

A half-marathon in China saw more than 300 robots race – including one that smashed the human world record – but the rehearsal that didn’t go to plan for one clumsy bot in this epic fail

Megaship five times size of Titanic

Megaship five times size of Titanic

The world’s largest cruise ship has opened for bookings, dwarfing the Titanic and aiming to make history once it begins sailing the high seas – see the size comparison and sneak a peek

50 years after Abbey Road, there’s a new Fab Four

50 years after Abbey Road, there’s a new Fab Four

In our weekly series, award-winning cartoonist Mark Knight celebrates the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ famous Abbey Road album cover, but his tribute has a twist with a new Fab Four

Xbox inventor gets a taste of ancient toast

Xbox inventor gets a taste of ancient toast

In an incredible, just-for-fun science experiment, the man who invented Xbox baked a loaf of bread using microscopic yeast spores brought back to life from a 4500-year-old Egyptian pot

Meet the minibeasts crawling all over Earth

Meet the minibeasts crawling all over Earth

Microscopic tardigrades made the news for crash-landing on the Moon. Earth is teeming with other tiny creatures just as fascinating. Here are a few you won’t be able to stop looking at

Blocking Simmons at Crown was a big gamble

Blocking Simmons at Crown was a big gamble

In our weekly series, award-winning cartoonist Mark Knight finds the funny side of NBA star basketballer Ben Simmons being denied entry to Crown casino on a trip home to Australia

Meet Tallow, Australia’s cutest koala joey

Meet Tallow, Australia’s cutest koala joey

A tiny, wide-eyed koala has been named Australia’s cutest koala joey. And now she’s out of her mother’s pouch, her important work as an ambassador for her species’ conservation really begins

Let’s go into the garden for stamp collecting month

Let’s go into the garden for stamp collecting month

Worms, bees, birds, flowers and veggies are the stars of Australia’s stamp collecting month, when sustainable gardening and stamp collecting get together to grow something great

Why Barnaby Joyce crying poor was a bit rich

Why Barnaby Joyce crying poor was a bit rich

In our weekly series, award-winning cartoonist Mark Knight looks at why Barnaby Joyce crying poor over having to support two families was a bit rich and a cartoonist’s dream

Is your brain playing tricks on you?

Is your brain playing tricks on you?

This mind-boggling, spinning optical illusion is actually completely still and completely flat but our brains don’t see it that way. Scientists are studying whether that’s a weakness or a strength

Reimagining the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Reimagining the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Incredible new images reveal what Sydney would look like today had some of the alternative harbour bridge designs been given the green light instead of the now-famous coathanger

Teen Fortnite world champ now a millionaire

Teen Fortnite world champ now a millionaire

A teenager has collected more than $4.3 million in prizemoney after becoming world champion of the computer game Fortnite, beating 40 million gamers who applied to compete

Great photos of animals interrupting humans’ sports

Great photos of animals interrupting humans’ sports

There are 7.7 billion humans on Earth but many, many more animals of other species, so it’s no wonder animals sometimes interrupt humans’ sports matches. And that can make for a great photo

Why Mack’s small gesture had a giant impact

Why Mack’s small gesture had a giant impact

In our new weekly series, award-winning cartoonist Mark Knight explains the message he was giving readers when drawing Aussie swimmer Mack Horton refusing to stand on the winners’ podium

Photos of the world at work in 2019

Photos of the world at work in 2019

We look at some of the best contributions to an international photography competition about how we work now and wonder which of these jobs will still be done by humans in 2100

Flying man with jetpack wows Sydney crowds

Flying man with jetpack wows Sydney crowds

Personal flying devices look closer to becoming a reality after a man wearing a jetpack flew around Sydney Harbour and another man zoomed over Paris on a high-speed hoverboard

What the moon landing and Trump have in common

What the moon landing and Trump have in common

In the first of a new weekly series, award-winning cartoonist Mark Knight explains to Kids News what inspired him to draw a cartoon comparing the moon landing and US President Donald Trump

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