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The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
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July 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Sci-fi hoverbike takes to the sky
A Polish company has produced a Star Wars-style hover bike.
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July 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
A BIG BIRTHDAY FOR SPNEB
The world's oldest known Humboldt penguin, Spneb, caused quite the splash at her 37th birthday party.
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July 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Penguin poo helps form clouds over Antarctica
Penguin poop may help clouds form in Antarctica, according to a new study.
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July 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
SCIENCE FACT OR SCIENCE FICTION?
Scientists serve up a robot cake
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July 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Hedy Lamarr
Peter Gallivan, author of The Hidden Heroes of Science, shines a spotlight on a star inventor.
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July 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
NATURE'S BAD GUYS
Ciaran Sneddon meets the greatest “villains” of the animal world.
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July 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Puppets fight for action
From 27 to 29 June, a herd of life-sized animal puppets will be trooping through the streets of London.
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July 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
MONKEYS: OUR PRIMATE FAMILY
In just a few days, an exciting exhibition about primates will open at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Primates are an order of mammals including apes, monkeys and humans.
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July 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Sharks inspire new tec
Aeroplanes coated in a material inspired by shark skin could stop airlines from burning billions of litres of fuel each year.
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July 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
A massive Moon mystery explained
Space scientists now understand why the Moon's faces look so different.
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July 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
3D-printed bike with no wheels
A British inventor has attracted a lot of attention for his newest creation: a bike that doesn't have any wheels.
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July 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
SECRETS OF THE SEAS
Take a deep dive beneath the waves as Melissa Hobson reveals the incredible animals that live in our seas.
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June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Controlling the weather
Is technology being used to change the weather, or is it science fiction?
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June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
NEXT STOP: THE FUTURE
All aboard as JD Savage takes the fast track through 200 years of train travel.
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June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
The race is on between robots and humans
Twenty-one robots competed against human runners in the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing, China in April.
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June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Growing baby corals
Meet the UK scientists giving breeding corals a helping hand.
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June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Could you dig all the way through the planet?
Learn the science behind digging a giant hole.
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June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Fabien Cousteau
Meet the ocean explorer who plans to build a futuristic base under the sea.
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June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Gladiators fought big cats for entertainment
Scientists have found the first physical evidence in Europe that Roman gladiators fought lions.
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June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
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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.
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June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Life on another planet?
Scientists have found molecules (groups of atoms) that could point to life on another planet.
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June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Sloth toothache cured by dentists
Dental experts have cured a two-toed sloth's toothache through a procedure called an apicectomy (say ap-ee-sek-toe-mee).
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June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
First UK baby born from transplanted womb
For the first time in the UK, a baby has been born from a transplanted uterus. When part of a person's body is not working properly, it can sometimes be replaced with the same part from another person.
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June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Al decodes animal chat
Computers are giving us the power to understand creature communication.
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June 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Daniel Olaiya
Meet the medical man with a thirst for adventure.
3 min |
May 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Shapeshifters
The ability to change shape at will sounds like magic — but what's the science behind it?
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May 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
First "stork village" in UK
Storks are beautiful birds with white feathers and bright red-orange beaks. However, you probably haven't spotted one in the wild in the UK as they went extinct here over 600 years ago.
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May 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
A back garden discovery
When you're not feeling well, a doctor might give you antibiotics to fight off the bacteria that is making you sick.
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May 2025
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
New moons spotted orbiting Saturn
Scientists discover more than 100 extra moons around the ringed planet.
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