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The theme for the British Science Week 2018 poster competition is exploration and discovery. Inspire your students to get creative with their entries and their imaginations. From intrepid expeditions to important discoveries and everything in between, there are plenty of ideas to be explored!

For competition guidelines, entry criteria and deadlines, visit the British Science Week website: www.britishscienceweek.org/plan-your-activities/poster-competition/

Guinness World Records: Science & Stuff is a whirlwind tour through the astounding, record-breaking world (and universe) around us. Packed with spectacular superlatives, shocking stats, fantastic facts and fun figures, Science & Stuff celebrates the simple joy in finding things out.

Get poster inspiration with Guinness World Records: Science & Stuff

Image Credits: Heinrich Frank

The largest creature in the ocean, the blue whale, does the largest farts. They go on for ages and smell terrible.

© Alamy

Astronauts on the ISS have a floating robot helper called the INT-Ball. Ground controllers can remotely control it and help astronauts do tricky jobs.

© NASA

The tiny Opportunity Rover has trundled more than 43.5 km (27 miles) across the surface of Mars, the farthest distance travelled on another world.

© NASA

Defrosted wooly mammoth meat tastes disgusting (you

probably could have guessed that).

© Alamy

Geologists in Brazil recently discovered a network of caves

that aren’t really caves: they’re fossil burrows, dug thousands

of years ago by armadillos the size of Volkswagen Beetles.

© Heinrich Frank