Questacon acknowledges First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians and first scientists, makers and innovators of this land and their continuing connection to Country. We pay our respect to the Elders past, and present.
Some animals can ‘see’ Earth’s magnetic field! Migrating birds and sea turtles use the Earth’s magnetic field to find their way to distant nesting sites.
Human ears cannot hear all sounds. For a human to hear something, the object making the sound needs to vibrate between 20 and 20,000 times each second!