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Fun Kids Science Weekly

A Space Week Special including Tim Peake!

Fun Kids Science Weekly

Fun Kids

Education For Kids, Kids & Family, Science

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

It's Space Week which means we have not one, but two amazing interviews! Firstly we're finding out all about a special edition of The Week Junior's Science and Nature Magazine - plus Tim Peake answers questions from you, our wonderful listeners!!

There's still time to also catch up with Professor Hallux about what we drink and Amy Aviation is here to tell us about some amazing plane designs!

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome. You've found us. This is the right place to have a journey all around

0:07.2

the universe. It's a brand new fun kid science weekly.

0:11.5

My name is Dan, thank you for being there for finding us for coming back, listening,

0:15.6

sharing and downloading. This is the place that we take a tour around the galaxy, a quick

0:22.0

spin around the solar system to find the most amazing science secrets that are lurking

0:27.0

somewhere, somewhere down there in the dark, deep depths.

0:31.7

Now this week you can hear all about a brilliant science magazine that's celebrating space

0:36.6

week in its new edition. And what she finds is by doing this science, by doing astronomy

0:43.2

in a different way, she's able to pick out things that sometimes people with sight wouldn't

0:49.9

be able to pick out because they're not attuned to those kinds of things. Also Amy's aviation

0:56.1

is back. This week we're learning all about why airplane wings are uniquely shaped.

1:02.4

It was so fast, it could carry its passengers at supersonic speeds to New York from London

1:09.1

in just over three hours. Like the sun, it means fast and the speed of sound.

1:16.5

And as it's space week, we've got a spacey surprise. So stick around, it's a brand new

1:20.7

fun kid science weekly. Let's kick things off with this week's science in the news.

1:28.4

The Nobel Prize in medicine has gone to Sweden's Svanta Parbo for his work on evolution. He's

1:35.0

achieved the seemingly impossible task of cracking the genetic code for one of our extinct

1:41.0

relatives, the Neanderthals. He's also discovered an unknown relative, the Denisovans.

1:47.6

Now finding out about our ancestors, about what's brought home o sapiens, that's us where

1:53.3

we are today, is extremely important because we can look and we can study what happened

1:57.7

with them and by looking into the past, we can help figure out more about our future.

2:03.1

So it's a fantastically earned Nobel Prize. Also British scientists are looking for

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