ALIEN HUNT: How Scientists Are Tracking Down Life in Space 🛸👽
Fun Kids Science Weekly
Fun Kids
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🗓️ 10 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Get ready for another BIG and BRILLIANT adventure into the world of science on this week’s Science Weekly!
With snow falling across the country, we’re uncovering the cool science behind why snow is white, and then tuning into the Universe to explore the secret signals streaming across our galaxies.
In Science in the News, scientists warn that great white sharks could vanish from the Mediterranean, renewable energy has smashed records across the UK, and Katherine Brown explains how the world around us shapes what we think, want and choose following the UK’s new junk food advertising ban.
Then it’s time for your questions! Henry wants to know why mammals do not lay eggs, and Kirsty McCabe explains the surprising science behind why snow is white.
Dangerous Dan returns with a truly strange creature from the past… the gigantic and mysterious Deinocheirus.
And in Battle of the Sciences, Steven Tingay from Curtin University takes us deep into the world of radio astronomy, revealing how scientists listen to the Universe.
Plus, we blast off with Space Camp to discover where weather really comes from and how satellites help us track storms, pollution and climate change.
This week, we learn about:
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Why snow looks white instead of clear
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Why mammals do not lay eggs
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The danger facing great white sharks
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How scientists listen to space using radio waves
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Why weather satellites are so important for Earth
All that and more on this week’s Science Weekly! 🚀
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome along, Explorer. It's that time of the week where you and me we leap from planet Earth, |
| 0:07.1 | we zoom around the solar system and just see what's lurking there. My name's Dan. It's time for a |
| 0:14.1 | brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly. Welcome along to the smartest show in the solar system. It's |
| 0:20.6 | amazing that you are there. |
| 0:22.4 | I hope you're having a brilliant 2026. |
| 0:24.5 | For me, it's been quite a cold start to the year, where I live. |
| 0:28.5 | Loads of snow falling. |
| 0:30.8 | And if you've had the same, we'll uncover the awesome science of why snow is white. |
| 0:37.3 | I'm going to stop you right there. It's not. |
| 0:40.1 | No, no, no, no. But I see snow and it's white on the ground. |
| 0:44.7 | Ah, you might think it's white, but actually, if you saw an individual snowflake or an ice crystal, |
| 0:50.1 | they're clear. |
| 0:52.8 | Also, you can hear about a massive dinosaur that looks like a duck, and we're tuning into |
| 0:57.9 | the universe, investigating the secret signals that are streaming across our galaxies. |
| 1:05.0 | So one of the experiments that I do is searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, and I think it would be cool to answer the question, |
| 1:14.5 | are we alone in the universe, or are there other advanced intelligence civilizations out there? |
| 1:20.7 | It's all on the way in a new Fun Kid Science Weekly. |
| 1:33.3 | Let's start with your science in the news. And Great White Sharks are in danger of disappearing from the Mediterranean Sea. According to research from the US and UK, scientists |
| 1:41.5 | there, they say that they're being fished illegally. Now, Great Whites are protected |
| 1:46.7 | by law, so you can't fish them, you can't sell them, but some people are doing it anyway, |
| 1:52.8 | and it means that the creatures are at risk of disappearing from the sea, and experts are trying |
| 1:57.7 | to tackle the problem by fitting satellite tracking tags onto the Great Whites |
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