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series Series may refer to: People with the name * Caroline Series (born 1951), English mathematician, daughter of George Series * George Series (1920–1995), English physicist Arts, entertainment, and media Music * Series, the ordered sets used in ...

of books to ''

Horrible Histories ''Horrible Histories'' is an educational entertainment franchise encompassing many media including books, magazines, audio books, stage shows, TV shows, and more. In 2013, Lisa Edwards, UK publishing and commercial director of Scholastic Corpor ...

'', written by Nick Arnold (with the exception of ''Evolve or Die'', which is written by Phil Gates), illustrated by Tony de Saulles and published in the UK and India by Scholastic. They are designed with the intention to get children interested in

science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...

by concentrating on the trivial, unusual, gory, or unpleasant. The books are in circulation in 24 countries, and over 4 million books have been sold in the UK alone. Nick Arnold released a paper entitled "Teaching Science the Horrible Way", in which he demonstrates the reasons why the ''Horrible Science'' series has a positive contribution to learning. According to Arnold, ''Horrible Science'' books are based on everyday topics and key areas of the curriculum. The range of approaches used in ''Horrible Science'' books are intended to emphasise the drama and excitement and wonder of science. Science words and concepts are introduced gradually, often using humour or fact files. Although mathematics is not needed at the level of science covered in the books, some activities require calculators. The books contain experiments under the heading "''Dare you discover...''". Several of the books end with thoughts on how science will shape the future.

History

Before writing the series, Nick Arnold was at the University of North London working on an educational project. He explained to ''The Birmingham Post'': "It was actually a lucky break or a well-placed letter – whichever you want to believe – Because I wrote this really cheeky letter to the publishers Scholastic saying that if they were looking for someone to write a horrible science book I was the one. And would you believe they actually let me write a science book and put lots of horrible bits in it – and then it was hugely successful”. During the mid-2010s, ''Horrible Science'' was given a book makeover, altering the covers of some of their old books, and all of the new books being published to have a new, more colorful background and updated information. A ''Horrible Science'' theatre show produced by the Birmingham Stage Company which, also brought ''Horrible Histories'' to the stage, was created in 2013.

Approach

Nick Arnold explained his approach towards writing the series in an interview with ''The Birmingham Post'': "My approach to a subject is to vastly over-research it. I have become quite good at science by writing these books so have got quite a lot of knowledge already but then I really like finding out more information. If I over-research then I don’t just have all the facts I need, I have a lot more – and that means I can really choose what I want to include. The thing about a ''Horrible Science'' book is that actually it is all about imagination. The more you know the more you want to know and the more you want to develop that."

Critical reception

The response towards the series has been generally positive. Some reviews of the series website included a

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review that "Really Rotten Experiments" is "Perfect for keeping the kids occupied on a rainy day, this is full of useful tips...and fun, naughty experiments". Another review by the Evening Express (Aberdeen) said that the book ''Horrible Science'': Painful Poison is "With fantastic fact files, quirky quizzes, humorous cartoons and easy-to-understand text, it makes science pretty horrible, but great fun".

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commented on the series as a whole, "Nick Arnold has a reputation as quite a showman and his ''Horrible Science'' series provides him with plenty of opportunity for stunts. Children emerge wide-eyed and inspired". A review at described the series as "These are so much better than some of the dry textbooks that I used to have to read when I was in school...I'm saying that books like this are great for students because they show students that science is truly interesting and amazing!". A review by Roberta of the Growing with Science blog said of the book ''Chemical Chaos'': "It is every bit as humorous (downright silly in spots) and as comprehensive as the history series was". She adds that the " eries as a wholego a long way to fill that gap [between middle and high school students". As said of Evil Inventions in a review by Jennifer Cameron-Smith at: "This is a delightful book and would make a wonderful present for any budding young scientist as well as a worthwhile addition to a school library. Making science fun can sometimes be a challenge, but books such as this certainly assist."

Controversy

There has been a negative response to Issue 6 - ''Hidden Horrors'' in the Home in the magazine adaption of the book series. The article named "Loony Lab" in this ''Horrible Science Collection'' had a section called "Grow your own manky microbes". A complainant, a biology teacher and parent, described it as "irresponsible in the extreme". A plastic petri dish and sachet of agar powder are provided as "free gifts", and children are encouraged to sample areas which may harbour disease-causing organisms (pathogens), such as a toilet handle, a dog's ear, or a "bogey". Under certain circumstances, contact with these substances is potentially life-threatening. The complainant added "The potential for real harm is jaw-dropping. Even in school, under supervision of trained staff, we would not be allowed to do much of what the article suggests, namely for health and safety reasons. How can they be sure that every child will follow even the meagre and woefully inadequate safety advice given?"

Awards and nominations

The ''Horrible Science'' series has received the following awards : *''The ZSL Thomson Reuters Record Award for Communicating Science'' awarded to Nick Arnold and Tony De Saulles for ''Wasted World''. Arnold said "For a science writer, the Thomson Reuters ZSL Award is the World Cup and I am honoured and thrilled to have won it." *Winner of the '' Junior Aventis Science Book Prize'' 2004 for ''Really Rotten Experiments'' *Winner of the '' Rhône-Poulenc Junior Science Book Prize'' 1997 for ''Blood Bones & Body Bits'' *Winner of the '' Rhône-Poulenc Junior Science Book Prize'' 1997 for ''Ugly Bugs'' *Winner of the ''

Royal Society Prizes for Science Books The Royal Society Science Books Prize is an annual £25,000 prize awarded by the Royal Society to celebrate outstanding popular science books from around the world. It is open to authors of science books written for a non-specialist audience, and ...

'' 2004 awarded to Nick Arnold and Tony de Saulles for ''Really Rotten Experiments'' *Nominee of the ''

'' 2003 awarded to Nick Arnold for ''The Terrible Truth About Time'' *Nominee of the ''

'' 2001 awarded to Nick Arnold for ''Suffering Scientists'' *Winner of the ''

'' 1997 awarded to Nick Arnold for ''Blood Bones and Body Bits and Ugly Bugs''

Book categories

Original books

These are the original books in the core series: * ''( Angry Animals)'' (2005) * ''Blood, Bones and Body Bits'' (1996) ( Human body) * ''Body Owner's Handbook'' (2002) (Human body) * ''Bulging Brains'' (1999) (

Brain A brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. It is located in the head, usually close to the sensory organs for senses such as vision. It is the most complex organ in a ve ...

) * ''Chemical Chaos'' (1997) (

Chemicals A chemical substance is a form of matter having constant chemical composition and characteristic properties. Some references add that chemical substance cannot be separated into its constituent elements by physical separation methods, i.e., wit ...

and

Alchemy Alchemy (from Arabic: ''al-kīmiyā''; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, ''khumeía'') is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practiced in China, India, the Muslim world, ...

) * ''Deadly Diseases'' (2000) ( Diseases) * ''Disgusting Digestion'' (1998) (

Digestion Digestion is the breakdown of large insoluble food molecules into small water-soluble food molecules so that they can be absorbed into the watery blood plasma. In certain organisms, these smaller substances are absorbed through the small intest ...

) * ''Evil Inventions'' (2007) (

Inventions An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea or process. An invention may be an improvement upon a machine, product, or process for increasing efficiency or lowering cost. It may also be an entirely new concept. If an i ...

) * ''Evolve or Die'' (1999) (

Evolution Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes, which are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction. Variation ...

) * ''Fatal Forces'' (1997) ( Forces and

motion In physics, motion is the phenomenon in which an object changes its position with respect to time. Motion is mathematically described in terms of displacement, distance, velocity, acceleration, speed and frame of reference to an observer and m ...

) * ''The Fearsome Fight for Flight'' (2004) (The History of

Flight Flight or flying is the process by which an object moves through a space without contacting any planetary surface, either within an atmosphere (i.e. air flight or aviation) or through the vacuum of outer space (i.e. spaceflight). This can be a ...

) * ''Frightening Light'' (1999) (

Light Light or visible light is electromagnetic radiation that can be perceived by the human eye. Visible light is usually defined as having wavelengths in the range of 400–700 nanometres (nm), corresponding to frequencies of 750–420 te ...

) * ''House of Horrors'' (2012) * ''How to Draw Horrible Science'' (2011) * ''Killer Energy'' (2001) (

Energy In physics, energy (from Ancient Greek: ἐνέργεια, ''enérgeia'', “activity”) is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of hea ...

and

thermodynamics Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that deals with heat, work, and temperature, and their relation to energy, entropy, and the physical properties of matter and radiation. The behavior of these quantities is governed by the four laws of th ...

) * ''Measly Medicine'' (2006) (

Medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pr ...

) * ''Microscopic Monsters'' (2001) (The very small -

Bacteria Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one Cell (biology), biological cell. They constitute a large domain (biology), domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometr ...

germ Germ or germs may refer to: Science * Germ (microorganism), an informal word for a pathogen * Germ cell, cell that gives rise to the gametes of an organism that reproduces sexually * Germ layer, a primary layer of cells that forms during embryo ...

s and

virus A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea. Since Dmitri Ivanovsk ...

es) * ''Nasty Nature'' (1997) (The animal kingdom depicted in

nature Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are ...

and those who study it) * ''Painful Poison'' (2004) ( Poison) * ''Shocking Electricity'' (2000) (

Electricity Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as describ ...

, both artificial and in

) * ''Sick! From Measly Medicine to Savage Surgery'' (2009) * ''Sounds Dreadful'' (1998) (

Sound In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid. In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' b ...

) * ''Space, Stars and Slimy Aliens'' (2003) (

Space Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually cons ...

) * ''The Terrible Truth about Time'' (2002) (

Time Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, ...

) * ''Ugly Bugs'' (1996) (

Insect Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body ( head, thorax and abdomen), three ...

s and

invertebrate Invertebrates are a paraphyletic group of animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a ''backbone'' or ''spine''), derived from the notochord. This is a grouping including all animals apart from the chordate ...

s) * ''Vicious Veg'' (1998) (

Plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclu ...

s) * ''Wasted World'' (2009) (

Global Warming In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...

) * ''The Horrible Science of YOU'' (2009) (Human Body)

Omnibus editions and boxed sets

There are several "Two in One" editions: * ''Ugly Bugs and Nasty Nature'' * ''Blood, Bones and Body Bits and Chemical Chaos'' * ''Frightening Light and Sounds Dreadful'' * ''Bulging Brains and Disgusting Digestion'' * ''Microscopic Monsters and Deadly Diseases'' * ''Killer Energy and Shocking Electricity'' * ''Fatal Forces and The Fight for Flight'' There have also been Three in One editions such as ''Ugly Bugs, Nasty Nature and Vicious Veg'', a set of 10 books (''Vicious Veg, Space, Stars, and Slimy Aliens, Ugly Bugs, Bulging Brains, Deadly Diseases, Chemical Chaos, Disgusting Digestion, Blood, Bones, and Body Bits, Nasty Nature, and Evil Inventions''), and a set of 20 titled ''Bulging Box of Books''.

Activity books

Shuffle puzzle books

* ''Angry Animals Shuffle Puzzle Book'' (2008) * ''The Blood, Bones and Body Bits Shuffle Puzzle Book''

Jigsaw books

* ''Dangerous Dinosaurs Jigsaw Book'' (2006) ( Dinosaurs) * ''The Seriously Squishy Jigsaw Book'' * ''Ugly Bugs Jigsaw Book'' (2008)

Sticker-activity books

* ''Disgusting Digestion Sticker-Activity Book'' * ''Ugly Bugs Sticker-Activity Book''

Others

* ''The Seriously Squishy Quiz Book Pack'' * ''The Awfully Big Quiz Book'' It may be noted that the ''Sticker-Activity'' books have been renamed, along with their new design, by dropping the "Sticker" aspect and leaving " Activity".

Annuals

* ''Annual 2008'' * ''Annual 2009'' * ''Annual 2010'' * ''Annual 2011'' * ''Annual 2012'' * ''Annual 2013'' * ''Annual 2014'' * ''Annual 2015'' * ''Annual 2016''

Specials

There are a couple books in the ''Horrible Science'' series that have a special sign on the front cover that indicate their inclusion in the "Special" sub-series of ''Horrible Science:'' * ''Explosive Experiments'' (2001) (

Science Experiments An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a ...

) * ''Suffering Scientists'' (2000)(

Scientist A scientist is a person who conducts scientific research to advance knowledge in an area of the natural sciences. In classical antiquity, there was no real ancient analog of a modern scientist. Instead, philosophers engaged in the philosoph ...

)

Handbooks

Following suit with the other main ''Horrible'' series', ''Horrible Science'' has recently introduced a new range of books, known as Handbooks. * ''Beastly Body Experiments'' * ''Bulging Brain Experiment'' * ''Freaky Food Experiments'' * ''Famously Foul Experiments'' * ''Sharks''

Teachers resources

The ''Horrible Science'' ''Teachers Resources'' subseries is, as described by Nick Arnold: "a whole series of books full of expert tips and photocopiable resources designed for pupils aged 7–11". * Electricity * The Human Body * Forces * Animals * Sound * Light * Minibeasts * Plants * Micro-organisms * Earth and Beyond

Others

These are the books that do not fit into the other categories. They are: * ''The Awfully Big Quiz Book'' (2000) (Science) * ''The Horrible Science of Everything'' (2005) (

Science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...

) * ''Really Rotten Experiments'' (2003) (

) * ''The Seriously Squishy Science Book'' (2007 World Book Day Special) * ''Smelly Science'' (

) * ''The Stunning Science of Everything'' (2005) * ''How to Draw Horrible Science'' (2011)

Magazines

There is also a magazine collection to this series, which is collectively known as the ''Horrible Science Collection''. This series was originally planned to encompass 60 issues, but due to their popularity, another 20 were added to the series. The titles are as follows: # ''Beastly Body Bits'' - ( Human Body) # ''Chemical Chaos'' - (

) # ''The Smashing Solar System'' - (

Solar System The Solar System Capitalization of the name varies. The International Astronomical Union, the authoritative body regarding astronomical nomenclature, specifies capitalizing the names of all individual astronomical objects but uses mixed "Solar ...

) # ''Disgusting Digestion'' - ( Digestive System) # ''Shocking Electricity'' - (

) # ''Hidden Horrors In The Home'' - (

and Germs) # ''Bulging Brains'' - (

s) # ''Savage Spiders & Slippery Slimeballs'' - (

Spiders Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species di ...

and

Slugs Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a sma ...

) # ''Rotten Reactions'' - (

Chemical Reaction A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the IUPAC nomenclature for organic transformations, chemical transformation of one set of chemical substances to another. Classically, chemical reactions encompass changes that only involve the pos ...

s) # ''Beastly Bloody Body Bits'' - ( Human Body) # ''Awful Earth'' - (

Earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's surfa ...

) # ''Mad as Matter'' - (

Matter In classical physics and general chemistry, matter is any substance that has mass and takes up space by having volume. All everyday objects that can be touched are ultimately composed of atoms, which are made up of interacting subatomic part ...

) # ''Painful Poisons'' - (

Poisons Poison is a chemical substance that has a detrimental effect to life. The term is used in a wide range of scientific fields and industries, where it is often specifically defined. It may also be applied colloquially or figuratively, with a broa ...

) # ''Bones 'n' Groans'' - (

Bone A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the skeleton in most vertebrate animals. Bones protect the various other organs of the body, produce red and white blood cells, store minerals, provide structure and support for the body, ...

s) # ''Insect Invaders'' - (

Insects Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of j ...

) # ''Super Sleuth'' - (

Spies Spies most commonly refers to people who engage in spying, espionage or clandestine operations. Spies or The Spies may also refer to: * Spies (surname), a German surname * Spies (band), a jazz fusion band * Spies (song), "Spies" (song), a song by ...

Codes In communications and information processing, code is a system of rules to convert information—such as a letter, word, sound, image, or gesture—into another form, sometimes shortened or secret, for communication through a communication ...

) # ''Nasty Nature'' - (

Nature Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are ...

) # ''Fearsome Fuels'' - ( Fossil Fuels) # ''Deadly Diseases'' - ( Diseases) # ''Gruesome Gravity'' - (

Gravity In physics, gravity () is a fundamental interaction which causes mutual attraction between all things with mass or energy. Gravity is, by far, the weakest of the four fundamental interactions, approximately 1038 times weaker than the stro ...

) # ''Mean Machines'' - (

Machines A machine is a physical system using power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action. The term is commonly applied to artificial devices, such as those employing engines or motors, but also to natural biological macromolecul ...

) # ''Universe & Worse....'' - (The

Universe The universe is all of space and time and their contents, including planets, stars, galaxies, and all other forms of matter and energy. The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological description of the development of the universe. ...

) # ''Vicious Veg'' - (

Plants Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclude ...

) # ''Body Owner's Manual'' - ( Body Parts) # ''Lethal Lightning'' - (

Lightning Lightning is a naturally occurring electrostatic discharge during which two electrically charged regions, both in the atmosphere or with one on the ground, temporarily neutralize themselves, causing the instantaneous release of an avera ...

) # ''Mean Mammals'' - (

Mammals Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur o ...

) # ''Mighty Magnetism'' - ( Magnetism) # ''Awesome Ants & Sleazy Bees'' - (

Ants Ants are Eusociality, eusocial insects of the Family (biology), family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the Taxonomy (biology), order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from Vespoidea, vespoid wasp ancestors in the Creta ...

and Bees) # ''Fatal Forces'' - ( Forces) # ''Crazy Cures & Revolting Remedies'' - ( Cures) # ''Barmy Birds'' - ( Birds) # ''Blast Off!'' - (

Spacecraft A spacecraft is a vehicle or machine designed to fly in outer space. A type of artificial satellite, spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, Earth observation, meteorology, navigation, space colonization, p ...

) # ''Evil Evolution'' - (

) # ''Horrible Heat'' - (

Heat In thermodynamics, heat is defined as the form of energy crossing the boundary of a thermodynamic system by virtue of a temperature difference across the boundary. A thermodynamic system does not ''contain'' heat. Nevertheless, the term is ...

) # ''Freaky Fish'' - (

Fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of ...

) # ''Startling Senses'' - ( The 5 Senses:

Sight Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment through photopic vision (daytime vision), color vision, scotopic vision (night vision), and mesopic vision (twilight vision), using light in the visible spectrum reflecte ...

, Smell,

Taste The gustatory system or sense of taste is the sensory system that is partially responsible for the perception of taste (flavor). Taste is the perception produced or stimulated when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with taste receptor ...

Touch In physiology, the somatosensory system is the network of neural structures in the brain and body that produce the perception of touch ( haptic perception), as well as temperature ( thermoception), body position (proprioception), and pain. It ...

and

Hearing Hearing, or auditory perception, is the ability to perceive sounds through an organ, such as an ear, by detecting vibrations as periodic changes in the pressure of a surrounding medium. The academic field concerned with hearing is audit ...

) # ''Sounds Dreadful'' - (

) # ''Sinister Swamps'' - Swamps) # ''Ghastly Genes'' - ( Genes) # ''Microscopic Monsters'' - ( Microorganisms) # ''Growing Up Grossly'' - (

Growth Growth may refer to: Biology * Auxology, the study of all aspects of human physical growth * Bacterial growth * Cell growth * Growth hormone, a peptide hormone that stimulates growth * Human development (biology) * Plant growth * Secondary growth ...

) # ''Foul Frogs & Slimy Toads'' - (

Frogs A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" '' Triadobatrachus'' is ...

and

Toad Toad is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands. A distinction between frogs and toads is not made in scient ...

s) # ''Terrible Time'' - (

) # ''Frightening Light'' - (

) # ''Dangerous Dinosaurs'' - (

Dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is t ...

s) # ''More Painful Poisons'' - (

) # ''Fearsome Flight'' - (

) # ''Foul Food'' - ( Food) # ''Staying Alive'' - (

Survival Survival, or the act of surviving, is the propensity of something to continue existing, particularly when this is done despite conditions that might kill or destroy it. The concept can be applied to humans and other living things (or, hypotheti ...

) # ''Fearsome Flying Machines'' - (

Flying Machines Flying machines s.r.o. is a Czech manufacturer of light aircraft based in Rasošky. The company was established in 2004 and specializes in kit aircraft for amateur construction and ultralight trike An ultralight trike is a type of powere ...

) # ''Revolting Reptiles'' - ( Reptiles) # ''Dead Freezing'' - (

Cold Cold is the presence of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere. In common usage, cold is often a subjective perception. A lower bound to temperature is absolute zero, defined as 0.00K on the Kelvin scale, an absolute thermodynamic ...

) # ''Noisy Nature'' - (The animal kingdom) # ''Mad Medicine'' - (

) # ''Foul Fungi'' - (

Fungi A fungus ( : fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, separately from ...

) # ''More Dangerous Dinosaurs'' - (

s) # ''Blinding Light'' - (

) # ''Gruesome Germs'' - ( Germs) # ''Slimy Sea Monsters'' - ( Sea creatures) # ''It's About Time'' - (

) # ''Perilous Planes'' - ( Planes) # ''Big And Bad Beasts'' - (Dangerous

Animal Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the Kingdom (biology), biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals Heterotroph, consume organic material, Cellular respiration#Aerobic respiration, breathe oxygen, are Motilit ...

s) # ''Shady Spies'' - (

) # ''Musical Mayhem'' - (

s and

Music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspe ...

) # ''Prehistoric Pests'' - (

Prehistoric Life The history of life on Earth traces the processes by which living and fossil organisms evolved, from the earliest emergence of life to present day. Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago (abbreviated as ''Ga'', for ''gigaannum'') and evide ...

) # ''Baffling Brainboxes'' - (

Human Brain The human brain is the central organ (anatomy), organ of the human nervous system, and with the spinal cord makes up the central nervous system. The brain consists of the cerebrum, the brainstem and the cerebellum. It controls most of the act ...

) # ''Mind Boggling Materials'' - (

) # ''Pesky Plants'' - (

s) # ''Wicked Weather'' - (

Weather Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloud cover, cloudy. On Earth, most weather phenomena occur in the lowest layer of the planet's atmos ...

) # ''Underwater Uglies'' - (

Aquatic animal An aquatic animal is any animal, whether invertebrate or vertebrate, that lives in water for most or all of its lifetime. Many insects such as mosquitoes, mayflies, dragonflies and caddisflies have aquatic larvae, with winged adults. Aquatic ani ...

s) # ''Mean Body Machine'' - (The Human body) # ''Rowdy Robots'' - (

Robot A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the control may be embedded within. Robots may ...

s) # ''Gruesome Guzzling'' - (

Eating Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food, typically to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and to allow for growth. Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive — carnivores eat other animals, he ...

and

) # ''Nuclear Nasties'' - (

Nuclear power Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity. Nuclear power can be obtained from nuclear fission, nuclear decay and nuclear fusion reactions. Presently, the vast majority of electricity from nuclear power is produced ...

) # ''Mind Magic'' - ( Science of magic) # ''Hairy Humans'' - ( Evolution of humans) # ''Freaky Future'' - (

Futurology Futures studies, futures research, futurism or futurology is the systematic, interdisciplinary and holistic study of social and technological advancement, and other environmental trends, often for the purpose of exploring how people will li ...

) # ''Horrid Healthcare'' - (

Health Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".World Health Organization. (2006)''Constitution of the World Health Organiza ...

and

) # ''Awful Inventions'' - ( Inventions,

Technology Technology is the application of knowledge to reach practical goals in a specifiable and Reproducibility, reproducible way. The word ''technology'' may also mean the product of such an endeavor. The use of technology is widely prevalent in me ...

) # ''How to be a Suffering Scientist'' - (

s) There have also been three 'special' magazines in the series: S1. ''DIY Shocking Science'' - (

Experiment An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments provide insight into Causality, cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome oc ...

s) S2. ''Spooky Science'' - (

Hallowe'en Halloween or Hallowe'en (less commonly known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve) is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Saints' Day. It begins the observan ...

and Monsters) S3. ''Alien Science'' - (

Aliens Alien primarily refers to: * Alien (law), a person in a country who is not a national of that country ** Enemy alien, the above in times of war * Extraterrestrial life, life which does not originate from Earth ** Specifically, intelligent extrate ...

)

Flip charts

On 3 March, 2008, several online flip charts (aka Activlessons) were released by

Promethean Planet Promethean may refer to: *'' Promethean: The Created'', a role-playing game * Prometheans, a fictional faction in ''Halo'', a computer game See also * Promethean Theatre, Adelaide, a former theatre in Adelaide, South Australia * Promethean World, ...

. As the site explains, "these ready-made interactive whiteboard resources have instant child-appeal, making the teaching of the QCA Science units fun and effective". The titles included are: * Animals and their Habitats * The Human Body and Keeping Healthy * Minibeasts * Sounds * Plants

TV series

In May, 2015, British television network

CITV CITV (short for Children's ITV, also known as the CITV Channel) is a British free-to-air children's television channel owned by ITV plc. It broadcasts content from the CITV archive and acquisitions, every day from 6 am to 9 pm which ...

announced that filming had begun on a new ten-part TV series of ''Horrible Science''. The series is produced by Toff Media, a company owned and founded by comedians

Ben Miller Bennet Evan Miller (born 24 February 1966) is an English actor, comedian, and author. He rose to fame as one half of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller. Miller is also known for playing the lead role of DI Richard Poole in the first two serie ...

and

Alexander Armstrong Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong (born 2 March 1970) is an English actor, comedian, radio personality, television presenter and singer. He is the host of the BBC One game show '' Pointless'', as well as the morning show on Classic FM. He is ...

, and co-owned by

Hat Trick Productions Hat Trick Productions is an independent British production company that produces television and radio programmes, mainly specialising in comedy, based in London. History Hat Trick Productions was founded in 1986 by Rory McGrath, Jimmy Mulville ...

. The series stars

, stand-up comedian

Chris Martin Christopher Anthony John Martin (born 2 March 1977) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist, pianist, rhythm guitarist and co-founder of the rock band Coldplay. Born in Exeter, Devon, he went to Uni ...

, Tom Bell,

Jason Forbes Jason Forbes (born 27 October 1990) is a British actor, writer, comedian, impressionist, and TV presenter. He is best known for the CITV series '' Horrible Science''; ''The Mash Report'' on BBC Two; as PC Peasey in the '' Professor Branestawm' ...

, Letty Butler, Susan Wokoma and Eleanor Lawrence. There will also be some guest appearances by other actors. The series focuses on a science show and its crew that consist of the show's host Mark (Martin), a talking brain Professor McTaggart (Miller) (who hosts the segment called The Brain Dump), robot Bob (Bell), microscopic Professor Small (Lawrence) and her crew of scientists and the show's producer Lucy (Butler). Armstrong provides the voice of the unseen announcer Tannoy who tells the crew how long until the show starts. Each episode also features a famous scientist being interviewed by either Mark or McTaggart. In a similar vein to the TV adaptation of Horrible Histories, each episode also concludes with a song that serves as a parody of another popular song.

Episodes

Series 1

Series 1 began on 13 September 2015.

References

External links

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Horrible Science series by Nick Arnold
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Horrible Books and Magazines USA
{{Horrible Histories Book series introduced in 1996 Children's non-fiction books Horrible Histories Series of children's books Series of non-fiction books Science education in the United Kingdom