What if cleaning up a park could teach you maths? What if invisible organisms could help protect the planet? And what if the next video game you play could one day be made by you? The September 2026 MiniMag is packed with big ideas about how we understand, build and care for the world around us. This month, you’ll discover how litter travels from land to sea, meet the microscopic organisms working quietly beneath your feet, explore inventions that transformed human history and step behind the screen to discover how programmers bring video games to life. And there’s a woolly [...]

Sheep: The animals that have lived beside us for thousands of years Sheep might seem like quiet, ordinary farm animals today, but their story is closely connected to the story of human civilisation. For thousands of years, people have raised sheep, travelled with them, bred them for different purposes and depended on them for survival. Imagine waking up 10,000 years ago. There are no supermarkets. No clothing shops. No refrigerators. No tractors. If your family needs food, warm clothing or materials to make everyday objects, you have to find or produce them yourself. Now imagine having an animal nearby that [...]