Topical Tuesdays

At 2am, Sunday March 29th 2020, all the clocks in the UK were put forward an hour, marking the start of British Summer Time (BST). This ritual, des...

People around the world are showing extraordinary kindness and compassion to one another, as they deal with the outbreak of Covid-19. In amongst al...

The Italian government has placed the whole of Italy in quarantine, as part of the country’s efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus that cau...

A new National Trust survey of over 1,000 children and 2,000 adults, found that more than three quarters of children aged between eight and 15 rare...

A new study researching wild Eurasian beavers living on the River Otter, in Devon, have discovered that their activity helps to reduce flooding and...

A team of astronomers led by Dongzi Li at the University of Toronto say they have detected a strange signal in deep space. The signal is called a f...

This week we look at the classic cartoon characters Tom & Jerry, who turned 80 on 10 February 2020. The duo, who have starred in more than 150 ...

This week's story is all about Nancy Grace, a detective and storyteller who finds clues from the past. Nancy is part of the archaeology team at the...

This week's story is about how the HS2 rail line could cause permanent damage to England’s natural habitats and wildlife, according to a recent rep...

Three Scottish brothers have rowed across the Atlantic Ocean in just 35 days, smashing three world records in the process. The MacLean brothers – E...

This week's big news was that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex released a statement saying they wanted to “step back as senior members of the royal f...

The 2020 New Year's Honours List was recently announced, with over a thousand people from various professions being celebrated.The list is chosen b...

Scientists in America have spent the last two decades cross-breeding a new variety of apple which, if kept in the fridge, will stay fresh for a yea...

A study by the National Literacy Trust has revealed that more than 380,000 children in the UK do not own a single book. The charity conducted a sur...

Two men have been jailed for stealing Viking treasure worth as much as £12 million. The detectorists (people who enjoy searching for objects using ...

You can't have failed to notice that on 19 November, Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson took part in the first live televised debate of the general el...

On 7 November heavy rain caused widespread flooding in parts of the UK, with at least one person having died, and 1,200 people have had to evacuate...

With this week's resource we're learning about scientists have observed two groups of long-tailed macaque monkeys in Thailand, Southeast Asia, usin...

This week's resource is based on a recent story of a 13th-century painting that fetched £20 million at auction. It was found in the home of an elde...

In this feature the focus is on the creation of new words and phrases and how they are added to the dictionary. The most recent version of the OED ...

This week we're taking a trip to K2-18b in search of aliens. Known as 'Super-Earth', K2-18b was recently discovered by scientists at University Col...

With this week's resource we're looking at the recent 50 year anniversary of the 50p coin. First introduced on 14 October 1969, it was the first se...

This week’s feature looks at perseverance versus giving up. Its main story is about Katarina Johnson-Thompson, the heptathlon athlete and her long ...

This week's feature is all about robots. A robotics company in Massachusetts, USA, called Boston Dynamics, has created 'the world's most dynamic hu...