Science
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Make square bubbles
Build a frame to capture straight-edged bubbles.
1 min |
December 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Smart scientists win big
The Nobel Prize rewards some of the world's brightest minds in science - as well as literature, economics and peace for their discoveries.
1 min |
December 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Build a memory game
Test the power of your mind with this colour-changing brain game.
2 min |
December 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Celebrating a hero
Remembering Dr Jane Goodall, who devoted her life to the study and conservation of chimps.
2 min |
December 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Wildlife watch
Jenny Ackland discovers the wonders of nature you can spot this month.
2 min |
December 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Make mini cottage pies
Cook up a winter warmer that will feed your whole family.
1 min |
December 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
HOLY ROLLER
The Kiruna Church was once voted Sweden's most beautiful pre-1950 building.
1 min |
December 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
BIONIC BEINGS
Patrick Kane welcomes you to a future of superhumans, where people and robots combine.
4 min |
December 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
The world goes green
Renewable energy produced more electricity worldwide than coal in the first half of 2025, according to a report from research group Ember.
1 min |
December 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
STORM IN HEAVEN
This photograph shows an enormous thunderstorm cloud glowing pink against a deepening blue sky. Called Eruption in the Sky, it was the winner in the young category of the Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year Competition 2025, run by the Royal Meteorological Society.
1 min |
December 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Do animals have bogies?
From salty sneezes to bird bogies, discover why snot is so important.
3 min |
December 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Colin Furze
Meet the record-breaking inventor who likes building wacky things.
3 min |
December 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Reptiles - Colour changing... wall running...sun basking... long living...
They're slithery, scaly and super-cool. Peter Fenech meets the animals with real-life superpowers.
5 min |
December 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Making sport accessible
New tech can help sports fans who cannot see properly watch matches live.
1 min |
December 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Footprints are part of dinosaur superhighway
Researchers have uncovered hundreds of dinosaur footprints in a quarry in Oxfordshire, England.
1 min |
December 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Protecting jaguar homes
Meet the incredible people saving big cats in rainforests.
1 min |
December 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Flashy dinos
How do we know that dinosaurs weren't bright pink or rainbow-coloured?
2 min |
December 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Conservation efforts helping UK animals
Some endangered animals are bouncing back in England, thanks to conservation groups.
1 min |
December 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
HEADSCRATCHERS
Launching on November 17, The Rest Is Science podcast explores the forces, patterns and questions that define the world around us. From cutting-edge discoveries to age-old mysteries, it invites us to think deeper – to notice what we've overlooked, and to see the familiar through fresh eyes.
3 min |
December 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Can robots and humans be friends?
Some people don't think human relationships can be replaced by machines.
1 min |
December 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
NEW SCIENTIST LIVE 2025
Head to New Scientist Live 2025, from 18 to 20 October, for loads of mind-blowing science, technology and interesting ideas.
1 min |
November 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
THE MAGIC OF MUSHROOMS
Ciaran Sneddon takes you to a weird and wonderful world filled with superpowered lifeforms.
6 min |
November 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Thinking machines
With the rise of artificial intelligence, could computers ever get smarter than humans?
2 min |
November 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Wildlife watch
Something wicked this way comes... join Jenny Ackland to spot some nasty nature.
1 min |
November 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Trailblazing treatment for deadly disease
One of the world’s most deadly diseases has been successfully treated for the first time. Huntington’s disease is a sickness that attacks the brain, and affects people's movement, ability to think and their emotions.
1 min |
November 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Should schools stop setting homework?
It can boost your school performance, but would children be better off doing other things?
1 min |
November 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Digging dens for wombats
Meet the relocation experts helping wombats find a new home.
1 min |
November 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
HEADSCRATCHERS
Hi, I'm Pete and I love science and the natural world. I work with the Royal Institution (Ri) in London, where you can find exciting, hands-on science events for young people. We've teamed up with The Week Junior Science+Nature to answer your burning science questions.
2 min |
November 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Ben Lamm
Meet the tech expert who wants to bring back woolly mammoths and reawaken Earth's lost wilds.
3 min |
November 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Life is "spotted" on Mars
A piece of spotted rock on Mars may prove that there was once life on the Red Planet.
1 min |