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The Week Junior Science+Nature The award-winning monthly magazine that sends 8 to 14-year-old children on epic voyages of discovery.

Our featured this month are the "Knitting Nannas", a group of care home residents in Teesside, England, who have been ...
17/12/2025

Our featured this month are the "Knitting Nannas", a group of care home residents in Teesside, England, who have been knitting tiny jumpers to help protect penguins from oil spills. 🐧🧶

👕 These pullovers help the little creatures keep warm and stop them from preening so they don't get sick from swallowing harmful chemicals after an oil spill.

🌍 Every month, our page highlights the amazing work of scientists, conservationists and other eco-heroes who help care for our planet.

📸 © PINP/AAT/Kings/Spotlight/Rex Features Penguin Foundation

📚 Our is Think Big: Secrets of Bees by Ben H***e, illustrated by Nina Chakrabarti and published by Nosy Crow. 🐝 Childr...
15/12/2025

📚 Our is Think Big: Secrets of Bees by Ben H***e, illustrated by Nina Chakrabarti and published by Nosy Crow.

🐝 Children will learn all about these brilliant insects – what goes on inside a hive, how bees communicate with a waggle dance, what they eat and loads more, 🍯

🌟 Also in our pages, check out some of the books that won awards in 2025, including The Week Junior Book Awards, the Young People's Book Prize, the Green Earth Book Awards and the British Book Awards.

📸 © Nina Chakrabarti 2025

13/12/2025

🎉 Welcome to the Science+Nature Lab Challenge! 🎉

This is where we show you how to do one of the activities in Science+Nature magazine… with an added twist!

This week: Can Stevie make a snow globe in under 30 seconds? 👀❄️

Want to try it at home? Tell us what colour glitter YOU would choose! 💬👇

12/12/2025

❄️ In the deep midwinter, the world outside may be frosty and still, but there’s plenty to spot. As our regular writer Jenny Ackland says, "even when the last present has been unwrapped, the natural world will still be full of surprises."

🌲 If you're heading out for a family stroll this weekend – or over the Christmas holidays – take our spotter's guide with you and see how many of these wintry wonders you can tick off:

1. Glossy green holly leaves
2. A red-breasted robin
3. Marsh hair moss – tiny star-shaped tufts of green
4. Wobbly blobs of purple jelly disc fungus
5. A perfectly formed icicle
6. Spider webs sparkling with frost or dew

Can your family find them all? 🔎

📧 Children can send their nature pictures to [email protected] for a chance to be featured in the magazine.

The winning picture of this year's Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards is "High Five" by British photographer Mark ...
11/12/2025

The winning picture of this year's Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards is "High Five" by British photographer Mark Meth-Cohn. 🦍🕺

⛰️ Meth-Cohn captured this shot of a young gorilla skipping around while exploring the Virunga mountains in Rwanda. "Watching his performance was pure joy, and I'm thrilled to have captured his playful spirit in this image," said the photographer. 📷

🤣 Children can see some of the hilarious shortlisted pictures in our new Christmas issue.

📸 © Mark Meth-Cohn: Nikon Comedy Wildlife

🦸‍♀️ Our latest is the stellar Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, who is hosting this year's Royal Institution Christmas Lecture...
07/12/2025

🦸‍♀️ Our latest is the stellar Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, who is hosting this year's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. 🎄

🔭 We interviewed Maggie about her love of space growing up, making her own telescope as a teenager and how she achieved her dreams. 💫

🚀 This year's Royal Institution Christmas lectures will take viewers on a voyage through time and space. To watch, tune into BBC Four on 28, 29 and 30 December at 7pm – we will!

📸 © Paul Wilkinson Photography Royal Institution of Great Britain

05/12/2025

A new issue of Science+Nature has landed! Children can:

🐯 Discover the wildest ways animals fight the winter freeze ❄️
💫 Meet space scientist and presenter Maggie Aderin-Pocock, who is hosting the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures this year
🎁 Find THREE jolly activities for Christmas

And so much more!

Royal Institution of Great Britain Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

👉 Meet some of the creatures in this month's cover feature about reptiles, the real-life superheroes of planet Earth. 🐢🦎...
03/12/2025

👉 Meet some of the creatures in this month's cover feature about reptiles, the real-life superheroes of planet Earth. 🐢🦎🐍

(1) Eyelash viper
(2) Painted turtle
(3) Thorny devil
(4) Tokay gecko
(5) Saltwater crocodile
(6) Saharan horned viper

🌍 Help your children unravel the world with Science+Nature. 💚

📸 © Getty Images / Alamy / Shutterstock

What's this cheeky chimp doing? 🙈👃 Turns out, primates like chimpanzees, gorillas and lemurs are prone to nose-picking. ...
01/12/2025

What's this cheeky chimp doing? 🙈

👃 Turns out, primates like chimpanzees, gorillas and lemurs are prone to nose-picking. Our latest feature delves into why animals have snot, and why it's actually very important to trap dirt, germs and other nasty things. 🤧

Children can read all about it in issue 94 of Science+Nature. 📰

📸 © Rex Shutterstock

📚 Our is Supa Nova by Chanté Timothy Chanté Timothy, published by Nosy Crow. ♻️ When genius Nova creates a plastic-eat...
30/11/2025

📚 Our is Supa Nova by Chanté Timothy Chanté Timothy, published by Nosy Crow.

♻️ When genius Nova creates a plastic-eating monster during a science experiment, she thinks she's solved the world's pollution problem. What she doesn't expect is for the monster goes rampaging through the city.

✍ In our page, Chanté Timothy tells us about her science superhero, what she would invent if she could and what she has in common with Nova, her protagonist.

📸 © Illustrations Chanté Timothy

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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.