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How do our senses work?

An orange in your lunch box, a barking dog and an annoying wrinkle in your sock… how does your brain make sense of them all?

This week on Squiz Kids Science Shorts, Christie investigates an excellent question from Miranda from Griffith: How do our senses work?

Discover how eyes detect light, ears turn vibrations into messages, and noses and tongues team up to deliver delicious flavours. Plus, meet the extra sense that helps you find your nose with your eyes shut, explore some remarkable animal senses, and find out why your experience of “right now” is already a tiny bit in the past!

Got a science question that’s tickling your brain? Send it to squizkids@squiz.com.au so Christie can investigate!

Got a question for author Aaron Blabey?

Send it in to squizkids@thesquiz.com.au and we'll pick the best ones to ask Aaron as he takes the Q&A Hot Seat

A fun kids vs adults news quiz to test who’s been paying the most attention to the week in news.

For the full episode transcript, click here.

Got a question for author Aaron Blabey? Send it in to squizkids@thesquiz.com.au and we'll pick the best ones to ask him in the Q+A Hot seat.

Your daily kids news podcast.

Bravery medal for WA teen; France’s school kids take to the streets; Fake health advice online; and the alligator who thinks he’s Elvis.

Austin Applebee was just 13 when he raised the alarm that saved his stranded family. Now he and his mum have received bravery awards.

Hundreds of French schools have closed as students join protests over education funding.

A sunbaking bird, an ambushing squirrel and an alligator apparently channelling Elvis. Welcome to the Comedy Wildlife Awards.

AI-generated “doctors” are appearing online promoting bogus health treatments and trying to grab people’s money and credit-card details.

For the full episode transcript, click here.

Researched and hosted by Bryce Corbett

Your daily kids news podcast.

Brisbane let the bird out of the bag; birthday buddies turn 227; 57 new sea creatures; and a teen artist takes a title!

Oops! Brisbane 2032 accidentally spoiled its own surprise when the finished Olympic and Paralympic designs appeared online early.

As the Nobel Prizes are announced, three scientists have scored one of science’s biggest honours for extraordinary brain research using light.

The deep ocean has delivered another monster surprise: 57 species previously unknown to science and a seacucumber nicknamed Loki.

At just 17, Jazz Lancaster Merton has been crowned Australia’s Portrait Artist of the Year!

Squiz Kids Shortcut to the Nobel Prizes

For the full episode transcript, click here.

Researched and hosted by Christie Kijurina

It has a Spanish name that means “the little boy”... scientists can spot it forming from space... and it can affect everything from anchovies to Australian bushfire weather.

In this Squiz Kids Shortcut, Christie and Bryce dive into the giant Pacific Ocean climate pattern known as El Niño.

With a little help from Bryce’s highly scientific bathtub experiment, we’ll find out what El Niño actually is, why warm water sloshing around the Pacific can change where rain falls, and how scientists use satellites, ocean buoys and weather models to watch it unfold.

We’ll also discover why El Niño can mean drier conditions for parts of Australia, heavier rain in other parts of the world, and big changes for fish, food and farming.

Listen carefully. There’s a S’Quiz at the end!

For the full episode transcript, click here.

Researched by Christie Kijurina

Hosted by Bryce Corbett and Christie Kijurina