OYLA Magazine

OYLA Magazine is a science and technology publication for readers aged 12 and up. It features engaging articles, interactive content, and stunning visuals designed to inspire curiosity and a love for learning. Ideal for young minds eager to explore and understand the world around them.

OYLA Magazine

The Monty Hall Problem: When Is Changing Your Mind Profitable? • Despite having a math problem named after him, Monty Hall wasn't a mathematician. Hall was a producer and showcan who created one of the most successful televison shows in history, Let's Make a Deal. The show earned him millions of dollars and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame– and led hundreds of people to argue over its paradox.

CHAT LIKE SPIES: THE ATBASH CIPHER • It’s never a good feeling when someone snoops on your private correspondence or personal diary! But don’t worry—you’re not alone. Even Julius Caesar, medieval spies, and 20th-century military forces had to deal with the same issue. Let’s take your note-keeping to the next level, sharpen your cryptography skills, and while we’re at it, learn some fascinating historical tidbits.

USEFUL EARTHQUAKES • How do we know what the internal structure of Earth is like? Could our knowledge be based on the results of deep excavations? But humans have only been able to dig a little over 12 km deep (the Kola superdeep well), while the radius of our planet is 6371 km! So how did scientists determine what lies beneath the surface with such precision?

ANALYTICAL HIGH-TECH • Not long ago, a burette, bulb, and scales were the classic set of any analytical chemist, enabling them to uncover the secrets of the composition of matter. But in the past few decades, instruments with incredibly sensitive technology have shaken up the field. These tools have made scientists’ “vision” so precise that no compound can escape detection.

Twin Sun Worlds • Earth and other planets in the solar system revolve around the Sun. But can a planet revolve around two stars at once? It certainly happens in the movies, with the desert planet Tatooine from Star Wars having two suns. But this situation is actually possible in reality!

SUPERVOLCANOES • Seventy-three thousand years ago, when mammoths still roamed Earth, a catastrophic event occurred on the Indonesian island of Sumatra that changed the course of life on our planet. For six whole years afterward, sulfuric acid rained down on the continents, dust clouds blocked the Sun, plants and animals perished from the cold, and no more than 10,000 of our ancestors survived. Humanity’s history took an entirely different path from that point. And all of this was caused by a single volcano—though not just any regular volcano, but the Toba supervolcano.

SALT OF THE EARTH

SPREAD BY THE WIND • Red spots, itching, fever, and weakness— before widespread vaccination, most kids experienced these symptoms of chickenpox. This month, let’s dive into the history and biology of this once-common childhood disease.

SAVE OUR SOILS! • For the foreseeable future, most food will continue to be grown in fields. Unfortunately, the soils needed for growing crops often degrade over time. What exactly does this mean, why does it happen, and how do we deal with it?

THE MOST IMPORTANT CHILDREN'S DRINK • Milk is the defining feature of an entire group of animals: mammals. All of them, from the peculiar platypus to deer that can walk just moments after birth, drink milk when they’re young. However, to this day nobody knows exactly where this substance came from and what its original purpose might have been.

PAPER WORLDS • On the pages of non-fiction books and maps, you may encounter people, animals, entire cities, and other entities that don’t actually exist. These aren’t included by mistake—they are deliberate traps that protect intellectual property from fraud....