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Horrible Science

This popular science series delves into the fascinating world of science through its most unusual and bizarre facts. It uncovers the fun and sometimes disgusting side of scientific discoveries, guaranteed to engage young readers. Each book is packed with amazing information, bringing science to life in a way you've never encountered before. Prepare for a journey filled with surprising insights and unique perspectives on the world around us.

Horrible Science: Really Rotten Experiments
Bulging brains
Chemical chaos
Disgusting Digestion
Die explosive Welt der Chemie
Blood, bones and body bits
  • Blood, bones and body bits

    • 176 pages
    • 7 hours of reading

    Science with the squishy bits left in! Where does your food go? What happens when a boil bursts? Which animals live in your eyelashes? Get the awful answers in Blood, Bones and Body Bits!

    Blood, bones and body bits
    4.0
  • Die explosive Welt der Chemie

    • 160 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    Findest du Chemie einfach nur ätzend? Bewirkt sie bei dir heftige Reaktionen, weil du all die Formeln nicht in deinen Kopf bekommst? Dann kennst du noch nicht ihre wirklich atemberaubenden Seiten, zum Beispiel: Die schlimmste Stinkbombe der Welt. Versuche, die völlig schief gegangen sind. Die einfachste Methode, Gold herzustellen. Cartoons, Quizfragen, spannende Geschichten und Experimente eröffnen dir die unglaubliche Welt der Chemie. Einfach explosiv!

    Die explosive Welt der Chemie
    3.5
  • Disgusting Digestion

    • 160 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    Explores the process of digestion, focusing on the funny, fascinating, and horrible aspects. Examples include: how much pee your bladder can hold, what disease makes your eyeballs bleed, why astronauts can't eat beans before a space flight and which part of your brain makes you throw up. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, junior secondary

    Disgusting Digestion
    4.1
  • Chemical chaos

    • 176 pages
    • 7 hours of reading

    Science with the squishy bits left in! Why aren't glass eyes really made of glass? What would make the worst stink bomb ever? How do you make your own toothpaste? Get the awful answers in Chemical Chaos!

    Chemical chaos
    4.1
  • Ever wanted to experiment with the sick side of science? "Really Rotten Experiments" is packed with loud, noisy, wet and soggy experiments that are guaranteed to make your friends and teachers squirm! Are you itching to find out...who invented pong-free underpants? Which strange scientists ate tadpoles for tea? The revolting recipe for green slime? Plus learn to dance like a skunk, eat like a chimp and chat in cat language. With crazy cartoons, queasy quizzes and a terrible term at Rotten Road School, "Really Rotten Experiments" is simply oozing with info! This is a bumper volume of Horrible experiments to keep children entertained for hours. The topics covered will include: blood 'n' guts body experiments, nasty noise experiments, seriously stinky experiments, dangerous dinosaur experiments, scary space experiments and much, much more! Although the main 'meat' will be the experiments, each chapter will also include cartoon stories, snappy facts and quirky quizzes and will be written in a way that allows readers to read the book for fun as well as something they'd only look at to try the experiments.

    Horrible Science: Really Rotten Experiments
    4.0
  • Evolve or die

    • 142 pages
    • 5 hours of reading

    Reissue with 16 pages of extra material, including an index.

    Evolve or die
    4.1
  • Frightening light

    • 176 pages
    • 7 hours of reading

    This is science with the squishy bits left in! What stops your eyeballs from falling out? Why can dead bodies make ghostly glowing lights? How can a laser beam sizzle human flesh? Get the awful answers in "Frightening Light"!

    Frightening light
    4.0
  • Angry animals

    • 144 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    Science with the squishy bits left in! Take a walk on the wild side with Angry Animals Dare you discover: * who made false teeth for an elephant? * where you can find dragons with bad breath? * which scientist ate a poisonous snake for dinner? If you think you can stomach the sick side of Science, then read on as we go on the hunt for the cruellest creature of them all. Get to grips with gruesome grizzly bears, wolf down some facts about, er, wolves and snap up some savage shark stories. With fantastic fact files, quirky quizzes and crazy cartoons, Angry Animals is a book to sink your teeth into! Science has never been so horrible!

    Angry animals
    3.9
  • The chance to find out about some extraordinary experiments that went horribly wrong, and discover the secrets of some very strange scientists. The book includes fact files, quizzes, teacher tests and cartoons, and provides the opportunity to try some chemistry at home.

    Horrible Science. Chemical Chaos
    3.5
  • Painful poison

    • 160 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    Discover how can you turn your brother into a zombie slave and why you are breathing poison right now! With a fantastic new cover look and extra horrible bits at the back of the book, this best-selling title is sure to be a huge hit with a new generation of Horrible Science readers.

    Painful poison
    4.3
  • Taking a journey from the very small, to the very big, readers are taken on a tour of everything in science from the smallest thing ever to the horribly huge universe. And it's all in full colour and in new flexi-bound paperback format!

    The horrible science of everything
    4.3
  • Nasty Nature

    • 176 pages
    • 7 hours of reading

    Science with the squishy bits left in! Why do vultures have bald heads? What kind of frog lives in a toilet? How do vampire bats slurp blood? Get the awful answers in Nasty Nature!

    Nasty Nature
    4.4
  • Wasted world

    • 144 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    This is the first "Horrible Science" book to tackle the issues of global warming, and climate What are the sickening secrets of gruesome greenhouse gases? Which is the deadliest toxic waste? Will the Earth make it to the year 2100?

    Wasted world
    4.2
  • "Horrible Science" is getting a make-over! Readers will discover why someone invented the bottom-stabbing bike saddle and why you would need a toilet snorkel. With a fantastic new cover look and extra horrible bits at the back of the book, this best-selling title is sure to be a huge hit with a new generation of "Horrible Science" readers.

    Horrible Science: Evil Inventions
  • Killer energy

    • 159 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    Fans will love all the gory details of why space loos spray out frozen pee and which chilling chemical can preserve pets! With a fantastic new cover look and extra horrible bits at the back of the book, this best-selling title is sure to be a huge hit with a new generation of Horrible Science readers.

    Killer energy
    4.0
  • Vicious veg

    • 175 pages
    • 7 hours of reading

    How do plants suck out the insides of dead insects? Which fungi can make your toes drop off? Why do stinging nettles like skeletons? Read Vicious Veg and find out!

    Vicious veg
    4.0
  • Fight for flight

    • 159 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    Science with the squishy bits left in! The Fearsome Fight for Flight will send you sky-high! Are you in a flap to discover: * who put a parachute on a puppy? * why scientists fire dead birds from cannon? * what happened to the world's first flying sheep? If you think you can stomach the sick side of Science, then read on as we go plane crazy. Laugh at some seriously silly flying stunts, find out which scientist was blown up in a balloon, and learn how to build a world-beating plane. With fantastic fact files, quirky quizzes and crazy cartoons The Fearsome Fight for Flight is a real high-flier! Science has never been so horrible!

    Fight for flight
    4.1
  • Space, stars and slimy aliens

    • 159 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    Science with the squishy bits left in! Why does space make the guts explode? Which astronomers killed people? What does the moon smell like? Get the awful answers in Space, Stars and Slimy Aliens!

    Space, stars and slimy aliens
    4.0
  • How does a single sound shatter glass? Which sound waves make your guts wobble? Why are farts so noisy? Get all the answers and more inside this horrible book.

    Sounds dreadful
    4.1
  • Deadly diseases

    • 176 pages
    • 7 hours of reading

    Science with the squishy bits left in! What happened when a nurse drank diarrhoea? Why does deadly cholera make your skin turn blue? Which scientist used eyeballs as food for bacteria? Get the awful answers in Deadly Diseases!

    Deadly diseases
    4.3
  • Du findest Geschichte staubtrocken? Und Naturwissenschaften sind dir ein einziges Rätsel? Alles viel zu langweilig und theoretisch? Damit ist jetzt Schluss, denn hier kommt das ultimativ Beste aus WahnsinnsWissen! Hast du zum Beispiel gewusst, dass deine Ohren dir helfen, nicht vom Fahrrad zu fallen? wie das Gehirn deines Lehrers von innen aussieht? dass Darwin sich für seine Forschungen zum Affen machte? dass Cäsar so gern rote Stiefel trug? Witzige Cartoons, skurrile, aber wahre Geschichten und spannende Quizfragen zeigen dir die wirklich interessanten Seiten von Geschichte und Naturwissenschaft. Mit diesem Wissen kannst du in der Schule glänzen und deine Lehrer und Mitschüler verblüffen und beeindrucken. Tauche ein in die Welt von WahnsinnsWisssen und eines ist dir garantiert: Wissen total!

    Best of Wissen total
    3.5
  • Microscopic monsters

    • 158 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    Packed with facts about the tiny world of microbes - viruses, bacteria, amoebas, they're all here, as well as many other diminutive creepy-crawlies.

    Microscopic monsters
    4.1
  • The Fearsome Fight for Flight

    • 144 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    Science with the squishy bits left in| The Fearsome Fight for Flight will send you sky-high| Are you in a flap to * who put a parachute on a puppy? * why scientists fire dead birds from cannon? * what happened to the world's first flying sheep? If you think you can stomach the sick side of Science, then read on as we go plane crazy. Laugh at some seriously silly flying stunts, find out which scientist was blown up in a balloon, and learn how to build a world-beating plane. With fantastic fact files, quirky quizzes and crazy cartoons The Fearsome Fight for Flight is a real high-flier| Science has never been so horrible|

    The Fearsome Fight for Flight
    4.0
  • Evil inventions

    • 144 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    Horrible Science is getting a make-over! Readers will discover why someone invented the bottom-stabbing bike saddle and why you would need a toilet snorkel. With a fantastic new cover look and extra horrible bits at the back of the book, this best-selling title is sure to be a huge hit with a new generation of Horrible Science readers.

    Evil inventions
    4.4
  • This is a look at the nasty side of nature. Find out: which is the nastiest animal in the world; why vultures have bald heads; what kind of frog lives in the toilet; and how vampire bats suck blood. Contains fact files and quizzes, teacher tests and cartoons.

    Horrible Science: Nasty Nature
    3.2
  • In this guide you'll discover a range of body bits and fantastic features you didn't even know you had, including an auto-repair function, a built-in cooling system, top-of-the-range sensory equipment, and waste disposal.

    The body owner's handbook - Horrible science
    4.1
  • Ein Knaller, die Chemie!

    • 157 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    Findest du Chemie einfach nur ätzend ? Denkst du dabei an nichts anderes als verwickelte Moleküle und trostlose Theorien? Dann kennst du nicht ihre wirklich wahnsinnigen Seiten, zum Beispiel: - Versuche, die völlig schief gegangen sind, - die schlimmste Stinkbombe der Welt, - oder die einfachste Methode Gold zu machen ...! Witzige Cartoons, Quizfragen, Experimente und Geschichten zeigen dir alles, was wirklich spannend ist in der Chemie. Manches ist so unglaublich, dass es sogar deine Lehrer verblüffen wird - und dann ist sogar Chemie ein echter Knaller!

    Ein Knaller, die Chemie!
    3.8
  • The terrible truth about time

    • 159 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    Find out what happens if you go too close to a black hole and how flies tell the time! With a fantastic new cover look and extra horrible bits at the back of the book, this best-selling title is sure to be a huge hit with a new generation of Horrible Science readers.

    The terrible truth about time
    4.0
  • Ugly bugs

    • 144 pages
    • 6 hours of reading

    Science with the squishy bits left in! What do slugs do with their slime? Why do flies throw up on your tea? How do insects drink your blood? Get the awful answers in Ugly Bugs!

    Ugly bugs
    4.1
  • Fatal forces

    • 176 pages
    • 7 hours of reading

    Reissue with 16 pages of extra material, including an index.

    Fatal forces
    4.0
  • The Horrible Science of You

    • 96 pages
    • 4 hours of reading

    This title isn't just about any body, it's about YOUR body and what it does all day. Meet the shrinking scientists who are staying with the Normal family - a perfectly normal family - and studying how their bodies work.

    The Horrible Science of You
    4.0
  • Read about brilliant breakthroughs, explosive experiments and feeble failures. This book gives a potted history of scientists and their discoveries, from the first Greek brainboxes to modern day geniuses.

    Horrible Science: Suffering Scientists
    4.3