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International Day of Women and Girls in Science is on 11 February. To celebrate our three lab activities this month are ...
08/02/2025

International Day of Women and Girls in Science is on 11 February. To celebrate our three lab activities this month are inspired by the work of three incredible women in science.

In 1953, Rosalind Franklin took X-ray photos of DNA molecules, which played a big part in working out DNA's shape. With this lab activity, children can create a DNA model – with sweets! Find the activity here: tinyurl.com/sn-84-lab1

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🌎 If you didn't manage to catch the Planet Parade last week then you're in luck, there's another chance to see one in Fe...
07/02/2025

🌎 If you didn't manage to catch the Planet Parade last week then you're in luck, there's another chance to see one in February. In the meantime, here's an activity to get your kids excited about stargazing. Discover the cosmic delights February has to offer with this stargazing guide and map. tinyurl.com/SN-FebStars

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is around the corner, and our free, expert-backed resource is packed with practical tips, advice, and conversation sta...
07/02/2025

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Tap the link below to download and help your child navigate the online world with confidence.
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"Kindness" was the Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) Word of the Year for 2024, voted by children.📸 © Getty Imag...
05/02/2025

"Kindness" was the Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) Word of the Year for 2024, voted by children.

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We talked to author and youth-engagement specialist The Hon. Stuart Lawrence for our feature on the power of kindness i...
03/02/2025

We talked to author and youth-engagement specialist The Hon. Stuart Lawrence for our feature on the power of kindness in our issue 45. He said, "I think being kind to others is the infrastructure for building the world into a nicer, better place. But it has to start from all of us taking an active part and not just being a part-time player."

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It's today, so why not check out our Wet 'N' Wild feature from issue 58, where we wade through the wild half-worlds th...
02/02/2025

It's today, so why not check out our Wet 'N' Wild feature from issue 58, where we wade through the wild half-worlds that exist between land and water. Read it here: tinyurl.com/sn58-wetlands

📸 © Getty Images The Convention on Wetlands

🗑 Gather your friends and family this weekend and organise a litter pick to help your local environment. Make it fun for...
31/01/2025

🗑 Gather your friends and family this weekend and organise a litter pick to help your local environment. Make it fun for your kids and see who can fill a bag of litter first. Find the activity here: tinyurl.com/SN-Litterpick

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31/01/2025

The newest issue of The Week Junior Science+Nature is out now. Children can read all about:

🐮🌍 The mind-blowing inventions that could fix our planet
🔭🧪 The best discoveries and inventions in the science world
🔎💻 What deepfakes are, and how to spot one

And much more!

Check out the competition's other brilliant winners ⬇️ The Tree Council
31/01/2025

Check out the competition's other brilliant winners ⬇️

The Tree Council

31/01/2025

Huge congratulations, Clara!

We were thrilled to be involved and support this year's competition. Thank you to The Tree Council and every young writer who participated. 💚

Wishing everyone a Happy . This year, we celebrate the . 🐍🎉The snake in this picture is a Mangshan pit viper, among th...
29/01/2025

Wishing everyone a Happy . This year, we celebrate the . 🐍🎉

The snake in this picture is a Mangshan pit viper, among the rarest and most venomous in the world. They attract their prey by wiggling their tails and then they swiftly attack with their deadly fangs. Discovered in 1990, only about 500 specimens are estimated to remain in the wild.

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Morocco's tree-climbing goats are among the many hilarious animals you can read about in the latest issue of The Week Ju...
27/01/2025

Morocco's tree-climbing goats are among the many hilarious animals you can read about in the latest issue of The Week Junior Science+Nature as Claire Karwowski tracks down the wackiest wildlife that's cracking up the animal kingdom.

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Get into the spirit of and dive into to our very first podcast episode - the Loch Ness Monster. Your kids will get d...
25/01/2025

Get into the spirit of and dive into to our very first podcast episode - the Loch Ness Monster. Your kids will get delicious shivers as the Science+Nature team investigate the world's BIGGEST monster mystery. Listen at omny.fm/shows/the-week-junior-show/loch-ness-monster

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🌮 Give your family a vitamin boost this January with a recipe that even the most reluctant chefs can master – Veggie Tac...
24/01/2025

🌮 Give your family a vitamin boost this January with a recipe that even the most reluctant chefs can master – Veggie Tacos. Ask your child to be as creative as they like as they pack their tacos full of healthy vegetables. Find the activity here: tinyurl.com/SN-VegTacos

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Did you know that, just like our planet, the Sun has weather? Our star blasts out lots of tiny particles, known as a sol...
23/01/2025

Did you know that, just like our planet, the Sun has weather? Our star blasts out lots of tiny particles, known as a solar wind, during events called coronal mass ejections. When these hit the Earth's atmosphere, they can cause colourful shows in the night sky known as auroras. This picture shows a coronal mass ejection that happened in 2012. ☀️🔭

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🦉 Some animal behaviour might seem like the start of a really good joke, but silly stories are part of everyday life in ...
21/01/2025

🦉 Some animal behaviour might seem like the start of a really good joke, but silly stories are part of everyday life in the natural world. 🐋💨

🙈 Children can find out about these and more hilarious animals in the feature from our latest issue, written by Claire Karwowski.

📸 © Fred Amico / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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The newest issue of The Week Junior Science+Nature is out now. Children can read all about: 🐮🌍 The mind-blowing inventions that could fix our planet 🔭🧪 The best discoveries and inventions in the science world 🔎💻 What deepfakes are, and how to spot one And much more! #sciencemagazine #kidsmagazine #SaferInternetDay #WorldWetlandsDay

Happy New Year! In the latest issue of Science+Nature, children can: ⚡️ Find out about the mysterious energy that electrifies our world 🙈 Read about the silly side of the animal kingdom 🦈 Meet Megan McCubbin, who is changing the way people view certain animals. And much more! Out now. #sciencemagazine #childrensmagazine #BSMEcoverofthemonth Raspberry Pi Foundation Royal Institution of Great Britain

Readers' questions - Dr Chris van Tulleken
Readers' questions - Dr Chris van Tulleken

Catch Dr Chris van Tulleken dishing out "The truth about food" on BBC iPlayer. Science+Nature readers got a one-off opportunity to meet Dr Chris and ask him their own questions. See what happened here. Royal Institution of Great Britain #ChristmasLectures #XmasLectures

Readers' questions - Dr Chris Van Tulleken
Readers' questions - Dr Chris Van Tulleken

See what happened when Science+Nature readers got to interview Dr Chris van Tulleken. 📺 You can catch all the Royal Institution of Great Britain's #ChristmasLectures on the BBC iPlayer . #XmasLectures

Readers' science questions - Dr Chris van Tulleken
Readers' science questions - Dr Chris van Tulleken

The first of this year's Royal Institution of Great Britain #ChristmasLectures is on at 9pm tonight. We'll be watching Dr Chris talk about the science of eating. See what happened when we asked him questions sent in by Science+Nature readers. #XmasLectures

⭐️ Check out what happened when our readers met #OperationOuch's Dr Chris Van Tulleken. We were hosted by the amazing Royal Institution of Great Britain, where Dr Chris was presenting the annual Christmas Lectures. #XmasLectures #digestion #food #upf #poo

Science+Nature - Issue 82
Science+Nature - Issue 82

The latest issue of Science+Nature is here! Children can: 🐧 Read all about emperor penguins, the coolest animals in Antarctica. 🎲 Discover the science behind a board game evening. 🍎 Find Dr Chris Van Tulleken's answers to their digestive system #Headscratcher questions. And much, much more! #sciencemagazine #childrensmagazine #BSMEcoverofthemonth Royal Institution of Great Britain

The Week Junior Science+Nature - Issue 81
The Week Junior Science+Nature - Issue 81

Just in time for #NationalSTEMDay, issue 81 of Science+Nature is now out. Children can: 🐺 Read all about the animals helping preserve our planet's ecosystems. ⚙️ Unleash kids' engineering skills with two construction lab activities. 🚀 Explore sci-fi's wildest dreams – what did they get right? And much, much more. #sciencemagazine #childrensmagazine #BSMEcoverofthemonth The Tree Council Imperial War Museum Duxford Raspberry Pi Foundation Raspberry Pi

The Week Junior Science+Nature - Issue 80
The Week Junior Science+Nature - Issue 80

This year's #spooky special of The Week Junior Science+Nature is out, and readers can: 🦇 Meet the night-crawling monsters of the wild 📺 Go behind the scenes of nature documentaries 🧑‍💻 Learn how to code a scary #Halloween game And much more! #kidsmagazine #sciencemagazine #halloweenspecial

The new issue of The Week Junior Science+Nature is here! Inside, find: 📸 The winning pictures of the #ScavengerHuntPhotoContest. 🥼 Gladys West, the hidden figure behind navigation systems. 🎮 #FororAgainst: is gaming good for you? And much more. Out now!

🌿Just TWO days left to enter the #ScavengerHunt Photo Contest! Listen to Chris Packham reveal the joy a nature find can bring. 🪶 📸 Submit your child's pictures through sciencenature.theweekjunior.co.uk/scavenger-hunt

📸🌿 We asked Chris Packham to give his advice for children on nature scavenger hunts, and he told us this remarkable story! Find out how your kids can join in our #ScavengerHunt Photo Contest this summer at sciencenature.theweekjunior.co.uk/scavenger-hunt

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Science+Nature is a brand new magazine packed with all the incredible information, amazing images and must-know facts that you would expect from the team behind The Week Junior — with extra wonder and marvels!

Edited by the award-winning writer Dan Green (author of the best-selling Basher Science books), each issue of this 60-page monthly magazine is designed to ignite curiosity, inspire exploration and stimulate a passion for knowledge in 8- to 15-year-olds. Every issue is jam-packed with wonder; taking readers on a voyage of discovery, from the depths of the oceans to the outer reaches of the cosmos, and from the days of the dinosaurs to our high-tech future. The eight-page The Lab section features hands-on experiments and step-by-step activities, as well as a monthly guide to the night sky for young stargazers.

And, if that isn’t enough already... every issue comes with a GIANT double-sided poster to pull out and stick up.