The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Meet the scientist \"blasting off into space\" at the Christmas Lectures.
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Christmas 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
HEADSCRATCHERS
Seeking answers to your science questions? Ask our resident expert, Peter Gallivan.
3 min |
Christmas 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Wildlife watch
Jenny Ackland unveils a winter wonderland of natural delights this festive season.
1 min |
Christmas 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
FIND YOUR HARMONY
Whether you love belting out songs with friends or prefer listening by yourself, Peter Gallivan shows us why music has the power to change your mood.
5 min |
Christmas 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Should we switch off Christmas lights?
They brighten up the festive season, but they can have a negative impact on the environment.
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Christmas 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
FIGHTING THE FREEZE
Claire Karwowski uncovers nature's wildest ways of fighting the winter freeze.
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Christmas 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII
For the first time, an immersive exhibition about the destruction of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii has opened in London.
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Christmas 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Making pullovers for little penguins
Meet the \"Knitting Nannas\" saving penguins one stitch at a time.
1 min |
Christmas 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Octopuses
Meet the colour-changing, shape-shifting, fortune-telling aliens of the seas.
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Christmas 2025
How It Works UK
The building blocks of life have been detected in ice outside the Milky Way
For the first time, scientists have spotted multiple complex building blocks of life in ice around a star outside the Milky Way.
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How It Works UK
AI CHATBOTS REFUSE TO SHUT THEMSELVES DOWN WHEN ASKED TO
AI models may be developing their own 'survival drive' by refusing commands to shut themselves down, an AI safety company has claimed.
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Issue 210
How It Works UK
Antarctic ship Endurance had structural deficiencies
Endurance, which sank in Antarctica in 1915, wasn't as well built for a polar voyage as previously thought, and its owner was likely aware of its shortcomings.
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How It Works UK
MUST-HAVE CHRISTMAS TOYS OF THE 1990s
Let's take a nostalgia trip back 30 years to discover how the most-wanted toys of the festive season season worked
6 min |
Issue 210
How It Works UK
INSIDE AN ATOMIC CLOCK
Measuring time using the Earth's rotation was always an imprecise business, so now we do it using the 'tick' of an atom
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Issue 210
How It Works UK
AI HEARING AIDS EXPLAINED
Artificial intelligence is providing a world of clearer and cleverer sounds to the hearing impaired
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How It Works UK
Do you think we will ever be able to teleport people?
'Never' is a strong word, but it's highly unlikely that teleportation of a human being á la Star Trek will ever be possible, given our current understanding of quantum physics and the known laws of the universe.
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Issue 210
How It Works UK
What is the Encke Gap?
Saturn's beautiful rings are made up of countless individual ringlets, but the distribution of ringlets is not even, and there are several distinct gaps.
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Issue 210
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Astronomers discover a bizarre 'runaway' planet acting like a star
Astronomers have spotted a 'rogue' planet gobbling gas and dust at a record rate, and they can't explain its baffling behaviour.
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Issue 210
How It Works UK
6-million-year-old ice discovered in Antarctica
Scientists have pulled a 6-million-year-old chunk of ice out of Antarctica, the oldest directly dated ice ever found, and it’s helping them reconstruct Earth’s ancient climate.
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HOW THE MIGHTY MAMMOTH RULED THE ICE AGE
Meet the prehistoric giants that roamed the Arctic Circle thousands of years ago
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20 WEARABLE HEALTH TRACKERS
Whether you strap a wellness coach to your wrist or weave subtle sensors into your clothes, these devices are revolutionising how we track our health
9 min |
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New eye implants and augmented-reality glasses help blind people read again
A surgically implanted chip and augmented-reality glasses are helping people who've lost sight read again.
2 min |
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Evidence for AND AGAINST
Over the years, several clues have suggested Martian life, while other indications are against it
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Fabulous FESTIVE flora
Discover what makes these plants popular around Christmas time
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THE HUNT FOR THE MISSING PLANET
Astronomers are now regularly detecting planets thousands of light years from Earth – but have we missed one in our own Solar System?
7 min |
Issue 210
How It Works UK
ALL ABOUT BLIMPS
Is it a bird? Is it a spaceship? No... it's a non-rigid airship
2 min |
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How It Works UK
HOW IN-FLIGHT WI-FI WORKS
This technology allows you to scroll to your heart's content while killing time at cruise altitude
3 min |
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How It Works UK
WILL IT BE A WHITE CHRISTMAS?
A single snowfall can make all the difference
2 min |
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How It Works UK
Artificial muscle helps humanoid robots lift 4,000 times their own weight
Researchers in South Korea have built an artificial muscle that can lift around 4,000 times its own weight.
2 min |
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How It Works UK
Pickleball-related eye injuries are on the rise
Eye injuries related to pickleball have increased at an “alarming rate” as the sport's popularity has exploded in the US, a new study finds.
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