by Nicole Blythe

Have a look through each of these creative prompts and see where they take you!

A study at Brown University of a crater on Venus caused about a billion years ago, has shown that it’s crust, or lithosphere, is too thick for it to have tectonic plates (at least in the last 1 billion years) which could disprove the theory of tectonic plates for Earth.

Due to the increasing levels of unrecyclable plastics found in the ocean, chemists are currently trying to find ways to make plastic more recyclable. Most plastic when melted down becomes too brittle to work with or mould into something new.

“You do not deserve the air you breathe. Do you deny it?”: Jörmungandr is the world snake of Norse mythology. Having been banished from his home to live in the darkest, deepest parts of the Ocean’s on Migard, the members of the ocean go to him as their last hope of stopping the humans before it’s too late.

Nasa’s Chandra X-Ray Telescope has been able to provide new, key information on blackholes outside of our galaxy. As blackholes were said to only have a mass, an electrical charge and spin they were said to be ‘bald’. Extreme blackholes (those that have maxed out their charge and spin) are said to now have ‘hair’ – they have other features that can be observed and measured.

Black Intentions: Having been left with nothing, two starving sisters make a deal with a magician for power from the ancient giants that live inside of blackholes. He gives them this power on the condition that they use their powers only for survival. However, the giants of the blackholes possess powers so strong, it is almost impossible to resist temptation.

A dustbin man, Jose Alberto Gutierrez, in Columbia started amassing books he found while collecting rubbish about 20 years ago. Having now collected over 20,000 books, he has opened a library called “Strength of Words” that children can visit for free during the weekends.