The Week Junior - Science + Nature

How to think yourself happy

Have you ever been told to “look on the bright side”? Or that “every cloud has a silver lining”? Perhaps, one time when you were feeling down, someone instructed you to “cheer up”. These are all common ways of telling you to embrace the positive, but...

Cool moves

When a chilly winter morning strikes, do you put on some flu y socks? Or are you stocking up on hot chocolate? Perhaps you like the warmer weather and dream of escaping to a tropical beach? Whether snowfall makes you smile, or the thought of dark days...

An inventing adventure with Colin Furze

Colin Furze is a British inventor who is committed to building wacky and wonderful things. His magnificent creations have included a hoverbike, a heated umbrella, and an electric bed that ejects the person in it to get them up. His current project – a...

Unearth the magical realm of fungi

What do you think of when you hear the word “mushroom”? Is it a frying pan of sizzling veg, a fairytale scene with a pixie sitting on top of a toadstool, an autumn scene of rotten logs, or even a Halloween witch’s cauldron bubbling with a deadly...

WHAT A CATCH!

Golden Hour by Anwen, age 16 “During my visit to Skomer Island, I was lucky enough to experience a beautiful sunset. I had been dreaming of a photo of a pu€n during golden hour ever since I started wildlife photography, and this evening I was able to...

CHAOS RULES

Imagine a wave crashing on a shore. WHOOSH! It’s a wild and uncontrollable force of nature. As it smashes down on the rocks, water sprays everywhere. Do you think you could predict how it is going to break? How high will the wave splash; how far will...

FOCUS ON NATURE

This summer, we’re challenging you to immerse yourself in nature. Our Scavenger Hunt Photo Contest involves you heading outside, tracking down 10 hidden treasures and getting creative with a camera. This year’s theme is “Focus on Nature”. We’re...

FIRST CONTACT

Is there life somewhere else in the universe? This is one of the biggest mysteries of all. Humans have searched for the answer for thousands of years, but have never found any evidence of lifeforms on other planets. If intelligent life (living things...

EDITOR’S LETTER

Hello, ocean explorers! Isn’t it funny we call our planet “Earth”, when nearly three-quarters of it is covered in water? Surely “Ocean” would be more accurate! Our amazing oceans hold 97% of the world’s surface water, and are bursting with life – from...

THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY

The digestive journey starts in your mouth. Teeth break up your food and mix it with saliva.

CLUE:

hings don’t always go to plan, do they? How often do you come up with a brilliant idea, only for it not to work quite as you’d imagined? It happens to me all the time, so I understood how the Intuitive Machines team may be feeling right now. Their...

BACK FROM THE BRINK

Have you ever watched a football match where one team is a lot stronger than the other, but as the game goes on, the expected loser starts to outrun and outscore the all-stars? When the underdog wins, the crowd goes wild. The stories in this article...

SCIENCE SAVES THE WORLD

Discover the mind-blowing inventions that could fix our planet

MAX POWER

From the second you wake up in the morning, your way of life is made possible thanks to the amazing power of electricity. It keeps the lights on, charges your phone, powers your favourite console games, cooks your food and is now helping to create the...

EMPERORS OF THE ICE

Meet the cool birds who brave Earth’s harshest winter

PLANET PROTECTORS

Meet the animal heroes helping tosave the world

3 Halloween2 activities to make you SCREAM (with delight!)

Jupiter – king of the planets

Large enough to fit every other planet inside, it’s no surprise Jupiter holds the title of “King of the Solar System”. Last year the European Space Agency sent the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE for short) on the long journey towards the planet, and...

KILLER INSTINCT

Atiger’s striped coat blends into the surrounding jungle as the muscular big cat prepares to pounce. In the ocean, an orca coordinates with its pod (group) to outsmart its prey. In the sky, a peregrine falcon, a soaring solo slayer, suddenly dives from...

SNAP HAPPY!

Every summer, The Week Junior Science+nature‘s readers go outside and get creative with a camera. Our Scavenger Hunt Photo Contest challenges you to track down 10 hidden treasures outdoors. While you are on the hunt, you are bound to have close...