Mysteries of Science

The team behind The Week Junior's Science+Nature magazine investigate unexplained phenomenon with the help of expert guests.

The team behind The Week Junior’s Science+Nature magazine investigate unexplained phenomenon with the help of expert guests.


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Is luck real?

What’s considered lucky might be different depending on where you live and who you are. But what is luck exactly and does luck actually exist? Or is it just something we’ve made up?
Two top professors and famous illusionist Derren Brown tackle whether…

Is time travel possible?

For many of us, what we know about time travel comes from stories, whether those be books, films or TV shows where characters go from the present to the past to the future and then back again. But is it possible to time travel outside the world of fict…

Your mysteries answered

Why do flies eat poo? Why, when I touch something, do my atoms not merge with the object? Are we living in a computer simulation?
All season we’ve been trying to answer the top mysteries that have baffled scientists for centuries. Now, we’re answering…

Shapeshifters

Fantasy creatures that can morph and change their shape, size and appearance are known as shapeshifters… Creatures like werewolves, vampires, and even the Incredible Hulk are examples of this.
Shapeshifting is something that’s captured the human ima…

Children raised by animals

You might be familiar with the story of Tarzan or Romulus and Remus, the children who founded Rome. 
But did you know there are also real-life stories of children being raised by animals?
That’s our mystery today – we’re going to investigate these ta…

The Lost City (Machu Picchu)

We’re going high up into the Peruvian Andes in South America, more than 2,000 metres above sea level, to the ancient lost city of Machu Picchu, one of the world’s most spectacular places.
It was named one of the seven wonders of the modern world in 20…

What did dinosaurs look like?

Think you know about dinosaurs? Think again! 
Hollywood movies have lied to you. Are dinosaurs big, scaly creatures with tremendous roars? Maybe…
Or, as Michael and Stevie discover in this episode of Mysteries of Science, perhaps they were fea…

Is something eating the universe? (Black holes)

Black holes are small regions of space where a great amount of matter is packed in and their gravitational pull is so strong that nothing, not even light can escape. 
But what’s inside a black hole? What would happen to someone if they got …

Why can’t I remember being a baby?

How far back can you remember? I bet you can’t remember being a baby. Most people can’t and it’s a total mystery as to why.
Why does this happen? Where did my memories go? And is there any way we can get them back? 
In this episode, Michael and …