Start your week on a positive note

Here's our round up of the weird and wonderful, innovative and inspiring...

Before you head into another week, take some time to explore what’s happening in our world.

• Could you sit still and do nothing for 90 minutes? In Melbourne later this month, people will be trying to do just that as part of the art event/competition Space Out.

• Scotland could be the first country in the world to criminalise harming the environment if a Member’s Ecocide Bill is voted through. It would make it a criminal offence to cause widespread, long-term or irreversible environmental damage. Penalties could include up to 20 years in prison for individuals and unlimited fines for companies.

• The James Webb telescope, located in the Chilean mountains, is revealing never-before-seen images of the universe, including the discovery of frozen water ice around a star for the first time.

• Imagine picking up some jewellery in the op shop and then discovering you’ve bought a royal treasure.

• Conservationists in Wales are tracking endangered water voles by using edible glitter.

• Would Whiskers and Fido like a white wine or a nice red? Kiwi start-up Muttley’s Estate has developed a pet wine made with catnip which is shown to reduce anxiety in both cats and dogs.