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Horrible Science is a spin-off series

Book series

A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their publisher....

of books of Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories is a series of illustrated history books published in the United Kingdom by Scholastic. They are designed to engage children in history by concentrating on the unusual, gory, or unpleasant. The series has proved exceptionally successful in commercial terms...

written by Nick Arnold

Nick Arnold

Nick Arnold is the author of the award winning series, Horrible Science and Wild Lives. Arnold's first published works appeared as a result of a project he was working on at the University of North London, when he was trying to teach young children. A positive review was written about him, and he...

(with the exception of Evolve or Die, which is written by Phil Gates), illustrated by Tony de Saulles

Tony De Saulles

Tony De Saulles is a British author and illustrator currently residing at Gloucestershire, England with his family. He is a former book designer and then he became an illustrator for children's books. He illustrates the Award winning series Horrible Science by Nick Arnold.-Awards:* 2004 Aventis...

and published in the UK

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

and India by Scholastic

Scholastic Press

Scholastic is a global book publishing company known for publishing educational materials for schools, teachers, and parents, and selling and distributing them by mail order and via book clubs and book fairs. It also has the exclusive United States' publishing rights to the Harry Potter book...

. They are designed to get children interested in science

Science

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

by concentrating on the trivial, unusual, gory, or unpleasant. A chemistry professor at Stanford reports that her students often attribute their interest in science to the Horrible Science series. Similarly, Amazon.com reviews of books in the series sometimes attribute their children's interested in science to the series. The books are in circulation in 24 countries, and over 4 million books have been sold in the UK alone http://www.horrible-science.co.uk/.

Nick Arnold had released a paper entitled "Teaching Science the Horrible Way http://www.nickarnold-website.com/teacher/Teaching%20Science%20the%20Horrible%20Way.pdf in which he demonstrates the reasons why the Horrible Science series has a positive contribution to learning. In it he quells possible fears for the subjects by saying that "Horrible Science books are based on everyday topics and key areas of the curriculum. There are titles on the most popular science topics the bias towards the body and animals reflects the commercial appeal of these titles. All Horrible Science books contain experiments under the heading Dare you discover… in addition the series features books of experiments and Galt sell a range of experiment kits. Several books deal with topics that children can perceive as potential threats for example global warning in Wasted World and personal healthcare in The Body Owner’s Handbook. Several of the books end with thoughts on how science will shape our future. Horrible Science experiments do not require expensive or elaborate equipment. They are cheap and easy for children to perform. 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 are not needed at the level of science covered in the books, some activities require calculators. The reader is clearly and gently guided through this work." On his website, Nick Arnold also has downloadable experiments for teachers to use in the classroom as an aid to his books (e.g. the HORRIBLE HYDROGEN experiment at http://nickarnold-website.com/experiments/Horrible_hydrogen.pdf).

Original books

These are the original books in the core series:

Angry Animals (2005) (fierce animal
Animal
Animals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life. Most animals are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and...

s)
Blood, Bones and Body Bits (1996) (Human body
Human body
The human body is the entire structure of a human organism, and consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs.By the time the human reaches adulthood, the body consists of close to 100 trillion cells, the basic unit of life...

)
Body Owner's Handbook (2002) (Human body
Human body
The human body is the entire structure of a human organism, and consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs.By the time the human reaches adulthood, the body consists of close to 100 trillion cells, the basic unit of life...

)
Bulging Brains (1999) (Brain
Brain
The brain is the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals—only a few primitive invertebrates such as sponges, jellyfish, sea squirts and starfishes do not have one. It is located in the head, usually close to primary sensory apparatus such as vision, hearing,...

)
Chemical Chaos (1997) (Chemicals and Alchemy
Alchemy
Alchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners’ claims to profound powers were known from antiquity. The defining objectives of alchemy are varied; these include the creation of the fabled philosopher's stone possessing powers including the capability of turning base...

)
Deadly Diseases (2000) (Diseases)
Disgusting Digestion (1998) (Digestion
Digestion
Digestion is the mechanical and chemical breakdown of food into smaller components that are more easily absorbed into a blood stream, for instance. Digestion is a form of catabolism: a breakdown of large food molecules to smaller ones....

)
Evil Inventions (2007) (Inventions)
Evolve or Die (1999) (Evolution
Evolution
Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.Life on Earth...

)
Fatal Forces (1997) (Force
Force
In physics, a force is any influence that causes an object to undergo a change in speed, a change in direction, or a change in shape. In other words, a force is that which can cause an object with mass to change its velocity , i.e., to accelerate, or which can cause a flexible object to deform...

s and motion
Motion (physics)
In physics, motion is a change in position of an object with respect to time. Change in action is the result of an unbalanced force. Motion is typically described in terms of velocity, acceleration, displacement and time . An object's velocity cannot change unless it is acted upon by a force, as...

)
The Fearsome Fight for Flight (2004) (The History of Flight
Flight
Flight is the process by which an object moves either through an atmosphere or beyond it by generating lift or propulsive thrust, or aerostatically using buoyancy, or by simple ballistic movement....

)
Frightening Light (1999) (Light
Light
Light or visible light is electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye, and is responsible for the sense of sight. Visible light has wavelength in a range from about 380 nanometres to about 740 nm, with a frequency range of about 405 THz to 790 THz...

)
Killer Energy (2001) (Energy
Energy
In physics, energy is an indirectly observed quantity. It is often understood as the ability a physical system has to do work on other physical systems...

and thermodynamics
Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics is a physical science that studies the effects on material bodies, and on radiation in regions of space, of transfer of heat and of work done on or by the bodies or radiation...

)
Measly Medicine (2006) (Medicine
Medicine
Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

)
Microscopic Monsters (2001) (The very small - Bacteria
Bacteria
Bacteria are a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria have a wide range of shapes, ranging from spheres to rods and spirals...

, germ
Microorganism
A microorganism or microbe is a microscopic organism that comprises either a single cell , cell clusters, or no cell at all...

s and virus
Virus
A virus is a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the living cells of organisms. Viruses infect all types of organisms, from animals and plants to bacteria and archaea...

es)
Nasty Nature (1997) (The animal kingdom
Animal
Animals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life. Most animals are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and...

depicted in nature
Natural World
Natural World is the longest-running nature documentary series on British television. 2008 marked the series' 25th anniversary under its present title, though its origins can be traced back to its predecessor The World About Us which began over 40 years ago...

and those who study it)
Painful Poison (2004) (Poison
Poison
In the context of biology, poisons are substances that can cause disturbances to organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale, when a sufficient quantity is absorbed by an organism....

)
Shocking Electricity (2000) (Electricity
Electricity
Electricity is a general term encompassing a variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge. These include many easily recognizable phenomena, such as lightning, static electricity, and the flow of electrical current in an electrical wire...

, both artificial and in nature
Nature
Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general...

)
Sick! From Measly Medicine to Savage Surgery (2009)
Sounds Dreadful (1998) (Sound
Sound
Sound is a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.-Propagation of...

)
Space, Stars and Slimy Aliens (2003) (Space
Space
Space is the boundless, three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction. Physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless four-dimensional continuum...

and Aliens
Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life is defined as life that does not originate from Earth...

)
The Terrible Truth about Time (2002) (Time
Time
Time is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects....

)
Ugly Bugs (1996) (Insect
Insect
Insects are a class of living creatures within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body , three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae...

s and Bug
Hemiptera
Hemiptera is an order of insects most often known as the true bugs , comprising around 50,000–80,000 species of cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, shield bugs, and others...

s)
Vicious Veg (1998) (Plant
Plant
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...

s)
Wasted World (2009) (Global Warming
Global warming
Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...

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

Two in One

There are also the 'Two in One' versions:

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

Three in One

There have even been 'Three in One' books:

Ugly Bugs, Nasty Nature and Vicious Veg
Blood, Bones and Body Bits, Disgusting Digestion, and Bulging Brains.

Ten in One

There is also a set containing ten books, comprising

The Fearsome Fight for Flight, Painful Poison, Space Stars and Slimy Aliens, Frightening Light, Deadly Diseases, Chemical Chaos, Killer Energy, Microscopic Monsters, Blood Bones and Body Bits and Disgusting Digestion.

Twenty in One

There is also a box set of 20 titles in the series named Bulging Box of Books. These range from Blood, Bones and Body Bits to Ugly Bugs.

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 be re-named, along with their new design, by dropping the "Sticker" aspect and leaving "Activity

Activity book

An activity book is a type of book, generally aimed at children, which contains interactive content such as games, puzzles, quizzes, pictures to colour and other elements which involve writing or drawing in the book itself. The book may, or may not, have a loose narrative or contain other...

Annuals

Annual 2008
Annual 2009
Annual 2010
Annual 2011
Annual 2012

Specials

There are a few 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. They are:

Explosive Experiments (2001) (Science Experiments)
Suffering Scientists (2000)(Scientist
Scientist
A scientist in a broad sense is one engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge. In a more restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses the scientific method. The person may be an expert in one or more areas of science. This article focuses on the more restricted use of the word...

s)

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". They are intended for use by teachers in classrooms http://nickarnold-website.com/hs_teacher.htm.

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
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

)
Really Rotten Experiments (2003) (Science Experiments)
The Seriously Squishy Science Book (2007 World Book Day Special)
Smelly Science (Science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

)
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.
They are as follows:

Beastly Body Bits - (Human Body
Human body
The human body is the entire structure of a human organism, and consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs.By the time the human reaches adulthood, the body consists of close to 100 trillion cells, the basic unit of life...

)
Chemical Chaos - (Chemicals)
The Smashing Solar System - (Solar System
Solar System
The Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical objects gravitationally bound in orbit around it, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun...

)
Disgusting Digestion - (Digestive System)
Shocking Electricity - (Electricity
Electricity
Electricity is a general term encompassing a variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge. These include many easily recognizable phenomena, such as lightning, static electricity, and the flow of electrical current in an electrical wire...

)
Hidden Horrors In The Home - (Bacteria
Bacteria
Bacteria are a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria have a wide range of shapes, ranging from spheres to rods and spirals...

and Germs
Microorganism
A microorganism or microbe is a microscopic organism that comprises either a single cell , cell clusters, or no cell at all...

)
Bulging Brains - (Brain
Brain
The brain is the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals—only a few primitive invertebrates such as sponges, jellyfish, sea squirts and starfishes do not have one. It is located in the head, usually close to primary sensory apparatus such as vision, hearing,...

s)
Savage Spiders & Slippery Slimeballs - (Spiders and Slugs)
Rotten Reactions - (Chemical Reaction
Chemical reaction
A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the transformation of one set of chemical substances to another. Chemical reactions can be either spontaneous, requiring no input of energy, or non-spontaneous, typically following the input of some type of energy, such as heat, light or electricity...

s)
Beastly Bloody Body Bits - (Human Body
Human body
The human body is the entire structure of a human organism, and consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs.By the time the human reaches adulthood, the body consists of close to 100 trillion cells, the basic unit of life...

)
Awful Earth - (Earth
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...

)
Mad as Matter - (Matter
Matter
Matter is a general term for the substance of which all physical objects consist. Typically, matter includes atoms and other particles which have mass. A common way of defining matter is as anything that has mass and occupies volume...

)
Painful Poisons - (Poisons)
Bones 'n' Groans - (Bone
Bone
Bones are rigid organs that constitute part of the endoskeleton of vertebrates. They support, and protect the various organs of the body, produce red and white blood cells and store minerals. Bone tissue is a type of dense connective tissue...

s)
Insect Invaders - (Insects)
Super Sleuth - (Spies
Espionage
Espionage or spying involves an individual obtaining information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine, lest the legitimate holder of the information change plans or take other countermeasures once it...

Codes)
Nasty Nature - (Nature
Nature
Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general...

)
Fearsome Fuels - (Fossil Fuels)
Deadly Diseases - (Diseases)
Gruesome Gravity - (Gravity)
Mean Machines - (Machines)
Universe & Worse.... - (The Universe
Universe
The Universe is commonly defined as the totality of everything that exists, including all matter and energy, the planets, stars, galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space. Definitions and usage vary and similar terms include the cosmos, the world and nature...

)
Vicious Veg - (Plants)
Body Owner's Manual - (Body Parts
Human body
The human body is the entire structure of a human organism, and consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs.By the time the human reaches adulthood, the body consists of close to 100 trillion cells, the basic unit of life...

)
Lethal Lightning - (Lightning
Lightning
Lightning is an atmospheric electrostatic discharge accompanied by thunder, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms...

)
Mean Mammals - (Mammals)
Mighty Magnetism - (Magnetism
Magnetism
Magnetism is a property of materials that respond at an atomic or subatomic level to an applied magnetic field. Ferromagnetism is the strongest and most familiar type of magnetism. It is responsible for the behavior of permanent magnets, which produce their own persistent magnetic fields, as well...

)
Awesome Ants & Sleazy Bees - (Ants and Bees)
Fatal Forces - (Forces)
Crazy Cures & Revolting Recipes - (Cures
Cures
Cures, a Sabine town between the left bank of the Tiber and the Via Salaria, about 26 km. from Rome. According to legend, it was from Cures that Titus Tatius led to the Quirinal the Sabine settlers, from whom, after their union with the settlers on the Palatine, the whole Roman people took the...

)
Barmy Birds - (Birds)
Blast Off! - (Spacecraft
Spacecraft
A spacecraft or spaceship is a craft or machine designed for spaceflight. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, earth observation, meteorology, navigation, planetary exploration and transportation of humans and cargo....

)
Evil Evolution - (Evolution
Evolution
Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.Life on Earth...

)
Horrible Heat - (Heat
Heat
In physics and thermodynamics, heat is energy transferred from one body, region, or thermodynamic system to another due to thermal contact or thermal radiation when the systems are at different temperatures. It is often described as one of the fundamental processes of energy transfer between...

)
Freaky Fish - (Fish
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate 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...

)
Startling Senses - (The 5 Senses
Sense
Senses are physiological capacities of organisms that provide inputs for perception. The senses and their operation, classification, and theory are overlapping topics studied by a variety of fields, most notably neuroscience, cognitive psychology , and philosophy of perception...

: Sight
Visual perception
Visual perception is the ability to interpret information and surroundings from the effects of visible light reaching the eye. The resulting perception is also known as eyesight, sight, or vision...

, Smell
Olfaction
Olfaction is the sense of smell. This sense is mediated by specialized sensory cells of the nasal cavity of vertebrates, and, by analogy, sensory cells of the antennae of invertebrates...

, Taste
Taste
Taste is one of the traditional five senses. It refers to the ability to detect the flavor of substances such as food, certain minerals, and poisons, etc....

, Touch
Somatosensory system
The somatosensory system is a diverse sensory system composed of the receptors and processing centres to produce the sensory modalities such as touch, temperature, proprioception , and nociception . The sensory receptors cover the skin and epithelia, skeletal muscles, bones and joints, internal...

and Hearing
Hearing (sense)
Hearing is the ability to perceive sound by detecting vibrations through an organ such as the ear. It is one of the traditional five senses...

)
Sounds Dreadful - (Sound
Sound
Sound is a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.-Propagation of...

)
Sinister Swamps - Swamps)
Ghastly Genes - (Genes
Gênes
Gênes is the name of a département of the First French Empire in present Italy, named after the city of Genoa. It was formed in 1805, when Napoleon Bonaparte occupied the Republic of Genoa. Its capital was Genoa, and it was divided in the arrondissements of Genoa, Bobbio, Novi Ligure, Tortona and...

)
Microscopic Monsters - (Microorganisms)
Growing Up Grossly - (Growth
Human development (humanity)
Human development in the scope of humanity, specifically international development, is an international and economic development paradigm that is about much more than the rise or fall of national incomes. People are the real wealth of nations...

)
Foul Frogs & Slimy Toads - (Frogs and Toads)
Terrible Time - (Time
Time
Time is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects....

)
Frightening Light - (Light
Light
Light or visible light is electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye, and is responsible for the sense of sight. Visible light has wavelength in a range from about 380 nanometres to about 740 nm, with a frequency range of about 405 THz to 790 THz...

)
Dangerous Dinosaurs - (Dinosaur
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

s)
More Painful Poisons - (Poisons)
Fearsome Flight - (Flight
Aviation history
The history of aviation has extended over more than two thousand years from the earliest attempts in kites and gliders to powered heavier-than-air, supersonic and hypersonic flight.The first form of man-made flying objects were kites...

)
Foul Food - (Food
Food
Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals...

)
Staying Alive - (Survival)
Fearsome Flying Machines - (Flying Machines)
Revolting Reptiles - (Reptiles)
Dead Freezing - (Cold)
Noisy Nature - (The animal kingdom
Animal
Animals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life. Most animals are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and...

)
Mad Medicine - (Medicine
Medicine
Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

)
Foul Fungi - (Fungi
Fungus
A fungus is a member of a large 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, Fungi, which is separate from plants, animals, and bacteria...

)
More Dangerous Dinosaurs - (Dinosaur
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

s)
Blinding Light - (Light
Light
Light or visible light is electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye, and is responsible for the sense of sight. Visible light has wavelength in a range from about 380 nanometres to about 740 nm, with a frequency range of about 405 THz to 790 THz...

)
Gruesome Germs - (Germs
Microorganism
A microorganism or microbe is a microscopic organism that comprises either a single cell , cell clusters, or no cell at all...

)
Slimy Sea Monsters - (Sea Creatures)
It's About Time - (Time
Time
Time is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects....

)
Perilous Planes - (Planes)
Big And Bad Beasts - (Dangerous Animal
Animal
Animals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life. Most animals are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and...

s)
Shady Spies - (Spies
SPY
SPY is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:* SPY , ticker symbol for Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts* SPY , a satirical monthly, trademarked all-caps* SPY , airport code for San Pédro, Côte d'Ivoire...

)
Musical Mayhem - (Sound
Sound
Sound is a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.-Propagation of...

s and Music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

)
Prehistoric Pests - (Prehistoric Life)
Baffling Brainboxes - (Human Brain
Human brain
The human brain has the same general structure as the brains of other mammals, but is over three times larger than the brain of a typical mammal with an equivalent body size. Estimates for the number of neurons in the human brain range from 80 to 120 billion...

)
Mind Boggling Matters - (Matter
Matter
Matter is a general term for the substance of which all physical objects consist. Typically, matter includes atoms and other particles which have mass. A common way of defining matter is as anything that has mass and occupies volume...

)
Pesky Plants - (Plants)
Wicked Weather - (Weather
Weather
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Most weather phenomena occur in the troposphere, just below the stratosphere. Weather refers, generally, to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate...

)
Underwater Uglies - (Aquatic Animals
Aquatic animal
An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life. It may breathe air or extract its oxygen from that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills, or directly through its skin. Natural environments and the animals that...

)
Mean Body Machine - (The Human body
Human body
The human body is the entire structure of a human organism, and consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs.By the time the human reaches adulthood, the body consists of close to 100 trillion cells, the basic unit of life...

)
Rowdy Robots - (Robots)
Gruesome Guzzling - (Eating
Eating
Eating is the ingestion of food to provide for all organisms their nutritional needs, particularly for energy and growth. Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive: carnivores eat other animals, herbivores eat plants, omnivores consume a mixture of both plant and animal matter,...

and Digestion
Digestion
Digestion is the mechanical and chemical breakdown of food into smaller components that are more easily absorbed into a blood stream, for instance. Digestion is a form of catabolism: a breakdown of large food molecules to smaller ones....

)
Nuclear Nasties - (Nuclear power
Nuclear power
Nuclear power is the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and electricity. Nuclear power plants provide about 6% of the world's energy and 13–14% of the world's electricity, with the U.S., France, and Japan together accounting for about 50% of nuclear generated electricity...

)
Mind Magic - (Science of magic
Magic (illusion)
Magic is a performing art that entertains audiences by staging tricks or creating illusions of seemingly impossible or supernatural feats using natural means...

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Hairy Humans - (Evolution of humans
Human evolution
Human evolution refers to the evolutionary history of the genus Homo, including the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species and as a unique category of hominids and mammals...

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Freaky Future - (Futurology
Futurology
Futures studies is the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. There is a debate as to whether this discipline is an art or science. In general, it can be considered as a branch under the more general scope of the field of...

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Horrid Healthcare - (Health
Health
Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain...

and Medicine
Medicine
Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

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Awful Inventions - (Inventions, Technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...

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How to be a Suffering Scientist - (Scientists)

There have also been three 'special' magazines in the series. They are:

S1. DIY Shocking Science- (Experiments)

S2. Spooky Science- (Hallowe'en and Monsters)

S3. Alien Science- (Aliens

Extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life is defined as life that does not originate from Earth...

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Not unlike Horrible Histories, the Horrible Science magazines have proved so popular that they have decided to add another 20 issues to the collection, starting from issue 60, It's About Time.

Descriptions of the books

Explosive Experiments: Science with the squishy bits left in! Want to know:

Which scientist blew up his barbie in an experiment?
How scientists tracked down the chemical cause of cheesy socks?
Who ate electrically-charged pickles?
Get the awful answers in Explosive Experiments!

Suffering Scientists: Science with the squishy bits left in! Want to know:

What made Albert Einstein forget where he lived?
Which scientists were too smelly to stay in a hotel?
Who made medicine with cinnamon, beetles and ground-up bones?
Get the awful answers in Suffering Scientists!

Evil Inventions: Discover why someone invented the bottom-stabbing bike saddle and why you would need a toilet snorkel.

Sick! From measly medicine to savage surgery: You will be fascinated to find out which scary surgeon stole a giant's dead body and what Egyptians did with tortoise brains. Find the answers here!

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

Find the awful answers to these questions and more in this title.

The fight for flight You will be blown away by how to see the earth's shadow, how to build a flying saucer, and how, after centuries of fearsome flight flops, people have finally taken to the skies.

Killer Energy Fans will love all the gory details of why space loos spray out frozen pee and which chilling chemical can preserve pets!

Angry Animals Discover where you can find dragons with bad breath and which scientist ate a poisonous snake for dinner!

The Terrible Truth About Time Find out what happens if you go too close to a black hole and how flies tell the time!

Painful Poison Discover how can you turn your brother into a zombie slave and why you are breathing poison right now!

Blood, Bones and Body Bits 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!
Includes an extra 16 pages of squishy bits!

Chemical Chaos 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!
Includes an extra 16 pages of squishy bits!

Disgusting Digestion What disease makes your eyes bleed?
Why can't astronauts eat beans before a space flight?
Which part of your brain makes you throw up?

Get the awful answers in Disgusting Digestion!
Includes an extra 16 pages of squishy bits!

Nasty Nature 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!
Includes an extra 16 pages of squishy bits!

Ugly Bugs 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!
Includes an extra 16 pages of squishy bits!

Deadly Diseases 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!
Includes an extra 16 pages of squishy bits!

Bulging Brains Why does ice cream gives you a headache?
Is chopping your brain in half always fatal?
Are girls or boys are the real masterminds in this book about grey matter?

Get the answers in Bulging Brains!
Includes an extra 16 pages of squishy bits!

Fatal Forces Why do your ears stop you falling off your bike?
How could a little bit of gravity make you lose your head?
What can make your fillings explode?

Get the answers in Fatal Forces!
Includes an extra 16 pages of squishy bits!

Awfully Big Quiz Book Could YOU challenge a chemist or baffle a biologist? The Awfully Big Quiz Book is bursting with hundreds of quirky questions to puzzle your pals, freak out your family and torture your teacher. Find out the foul facts of science you really need to know...

Evolve Or Die Dare you discover:

Why are mutating mosquitoes man’s worst enemy?
Which dinosaurs let loose some deafening farts?
Why do rabbits eat their own poo?
Get the awful answers in Evolve or Die!

Really Rotten Experiments 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?
· how you can make £5 without doing any work?

Shocking Electricity Dare you discover:

Which scientist gave electric shocks to his eyeballs?
How can an electric eel give you a nasty shock?
Why does electricity keep your heart beating?
Get the awful answers in Shocking Electricity!

Sounds Dreadful This bestselling title has been given a fantastic new cover, plus there are 16 brand-new horrible pages of facts and a horrible index.

Vicious Veg This bestselling title has been given a fantastic new cover and there are 16 brand-new horrible pages of facts to make your brain boggle.

Stars, Space and Slimy Aliens 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!

Microscopic Monsters Science with the squishy bits left in! What makes your guts a brilliant home for bacteria? Which creature lays its eggs between your toes? Why is your toothbrush covered in germs? Get the awful answers in Microscopic Monsters!

Body Owner's Handbook How does your auto-repair function work? Where's your top-of-the-range sensory equipment? What's your rear gas and waste disposal? Get the awful answers in the Body Owner's Handbook!

Frightening Light 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!

Annual 2011 The only book in the world with a sickening science fact or joke for every single day of the year. It can only be the Horrible Science Annual!

Horrible Science of You Everything the young scientist needs to know about their body and what it does all day. The shrinking scientists are staying with the Normal family – a perfectly normal family – and studying how their bodies work. Full of seriously squishy facts, cartoons and quizzes – our bodies have never been so horrible!

The Horrible Science of Everything Taking a journey from the very small to the very big, you 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!

Beastly Body Experiments A horrible handbook stuffed with yucky experiments to make your skin crawl. Pop an eyeball! Create a sickening sneeze! Make a shrunken head! You probably thought biology was boring, but no! Learning about your beastly body is sickening fun! What's more, it's all in foul full colour too.

Famously Foul Experiments A hilarious handbook bulging with evil experiments to make your blood run cold. From drinkable blood to a giant see-through eyeball, cook them up at home – but don't be sick!

Freaky Food Experiments So you're not allowed to play with your food? Well why not experiment on it instead? Create awesome alien eggs! Sample spiders in jelly! Get stuck into gruesome goo! Warning: Over 20 eye-popping experiments to make your stomach squirm!

Bulging Brain Experiments Experiments with the squishy bits left in! What's going on between your ears? Why not try these brain-baffling experiments and find out? Find out how to trick your brain! Test your rotten reflexes! Look at some scary and sinister illusions! Over 20 brain-bending experiments to blow your mind!

The Seriously Squishy Jigsaw Book A fun and accessible entry into the world of Horrible Science: with six 48-piece jigsaws on: the Smashing Solar System · Beastly Body Bits · Deadly Dinosaurs · Ugly Bugs · Angry Animals · Loony Lab.
Each jigsaw is accompanied by text on each topic – pulling out details from the jigsaw scenes and there are quiz questions under each jigsaw.

Dangerous Dinosaurs Jigsaw Book Dare you discover:
Which dinosaur ate like a hamster?
How to make a fossil dino sick?
What would happen if you arm-wrestled a T. rex?
Dangerous Dinosaurs contains six 48-piece jigsaws plus crazy quizzes, awesome activities and EVEN MORE fearsome facts hidden under the jigsaws!

Disgusting Digestion Sticker-Activity Book Packed full of horrible facts as well as fiendish quizzes, puzzles, activities and stickers. Colour illustrations on the insides of the covers allow readers to make their own sticker scenes.

Ugly Bugs Sticker-Activity Book Packed full of horrible facts as well as fiendish quizzes, puzzles, activities and stickers. Colour illustrations on the insides of the covers allow readers to make their own sticker scenes.

Ugly Bugs Jigsaw Book Dare you discover:

Where cockroaches go to the toilet?
Which insect eats its brothers and sisters?
What looks like a flower with a cold?

Ugly Bugs contains five 48-piece jigsaws and a seriously scary spider to make, plus crazy quizzes, awesome activities and even more creepy-crawly facts hidden under the jigsaws!

The Blood, Bones and Body Bits Shuffle Puzzle Book Puzzles with the squishy bits left in! Dare you discover:

How much your brain weighs?
What makes your body’s cells explode?
Why your tummy rumbles?
Move the tiles and discover gory and gruesome body facts hidden underneath the five fantastically foul shuffle-puzzles!

The Seriously Squishy Quiz Book Pack Packed full of seriously squishy quiz questions and everything you need to play some horribly scientific games! Including a spitting cobra target game with a water squirter, a squishy eyeball spider web board game, a bee board game and more. It's all the squish you could wish for!

Angry Animals Shuffle Puzzle Book Dare you discover How sharks scoff a seal Could you beat a cheetah? What vultures like for lunch Move the tiles and discover awful and amazing animal facts hidden underneath the five fantastically foul shuffle-puzzles!

Flip Charts

On 03 Mar 2008, there were a number of online flip charts (aka Activlessons) released on Promethean Planet

Promethean Planet

Promethean Planet is a free online community for educators developed by Promethean Ltd. It was originally launched in September 2006 and had a major redesign for June 2008.It currently hosts over 1,000,000 teacher accounts from 140 countries...

http://www.prometheanplanet.com/en/Resources/Item/32105/http://www.prometheanplanet.com/en/Products/PublisherCreatedResources/Series/Item/47987/. 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

Book Makeover

The series has proved so popular, Horrible Science decided to have 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 colourful background.

Awards

The Horrible Science series has received the following awards http://www.horrible-science.co.uk/reviews:

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 2004 awarded to Nick Arnold and Tony de Saulles for Really Rotten Experiments
Nominee of the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books 2003 awarded to Nick Arnold for The Terrible Truth About Time
Nominee of the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books 2001 awarded to Nick Arnold for Suffering Scientists
Winner of the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books 1997 awarded to Nick Arnold for Blood Bones and Body Bits and Ugly Bugs

Reviews

The response towards the series has been generally positive. Some reviews of the series website http://www.horrible-science.co.uk/reviews included a The Independent

The Independent

The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...

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

Evening Express (Scotland)

The Evening Express is a daily local newspaper serving the city of Aberdeen in Scotland. It was first published in November 1879.It was a tabloid during the 1930s to the 1950s until it resumed a broadsheet in November 1958, six days a week. By September 1989, The Saturday edition returned to a...

(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". Books For Keeps said of the book Deadly Diseases: "Gruesome gut churning contents, you need a strong stomach to tackle this, and certainly before eating". The Scotsman

The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a British newspaper, published in Edinburgh.As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 38,423, down from about 100,000 in the 1980s....

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 http://www.abasiccurriculum.com/reviews/horscience.html 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 "[series as a whole] go 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 http://www.amazon.com/Evil-Inventions-Horrible-Science-Arnold/product-reviews/0439943736: "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."

Criticism

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 compainant, a biology teacher and parent, described it as "irresponsible in the extreme". A plastic petri dish and sachet of agar powder are provided as a ’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-theatening. 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?" http://www.ise5-14.org.uk/prim3/New_Guidelines/Newsletters/33/Horrible_Science.htm.

External links

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Original books

Two in One

Three in One

Ten in One

Twenty in One

Shuffle Puzzle Books

Jigsaw Books

Sticker-Activity Books

Others

Annuals

Specials

Handbooks

Teachers Resources

Others

Magazines

Descriptions of the books

Flip Charts

Book Makeover

Awards

Reviews

Criticism

See also

External links