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Hello, welcome back to the speediest trip across the universe that you can have without stumbling into a black hole that you thought just might be a puddle.

My name's Dan. It's another episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly. And this week on the show, we're speaking to the inventor of an actual robot, which is trying to help manage a football team to glory and bring home the trophies. Also, today's dangerous Dan. It's all about the animal with possibly the most brutal name that's ever existed.

And we'll hear about a dinosaur that's touring across the UK.

Oh, plus, recently, if you've been over to Apple Podcasts and you've left the Fun Kid Science Weekly a review,

stay there.

I might give you a shout out in just a sec.

First, let's catch up with one of our favourite geniuses on this show.

It's Professor Hallecks, and he's back again looking inside your body.

Professor Hallex's kaleidoscopic antibiotic.

Oh, how's the patient? Still poorly?

Well, I've been to the doctor, and she's given me some medicine to help get rid of this horrible bacterial infection.

Antibiotics? Amazing really how they work. You tell them, computer.

Most coughs and colds get better on their own. Antibiotics are special medicines which help treat serious infections caused by bacteria and only bacteria. They simply do not work against other harmful microbes such as viruses. The very first antibiotic to be used was penicillin, and it's all thanks

to Alexander Fleming in 1928. He had returned to his laboratory after a holiday to find

things in a dreadful mess. Sounds familiar. Dirty petri dishes and test tubes were everywhere.

But he noticed that a mold growing on a dish had begun to kill a bacteria called Streptoccus that was also on the dish.

This was penicillium.

And from his discovery, this mold and others like it were grown and turned into medicines to treat

infections. These medicines are called antibiotics, anti-meaning against, and biotic meaning living thing.

You see, maybe there's a discovery in one of my mucky test tubes.

Yes, I put my money on a whole new life form. There are several ways in which antibiotics

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