ATTACK OF THE SCREWWORMS: Meet Nature’s Flesh Eating Flies🪰🧠

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It’s time for another trip around the solar system on the BIGGER and BETTER Science Weekly!

In this episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly, we answer YOUR questions, have scientists battle it out to determine which science is the best, and this week we're learning all about life!

First, we track down a 65-million-pound satellite that's gone missing in space. Then, we explore an incredible exoplanet image captured by the James Webb Telescope. And finally, biologist, Hannah Vineer from Liverpool University, explains the impact of the flesh eating fly spreading across North America.

Then, we answer your questions! Ben wants to know: How do clouds make rain and Dr. Robert Mahen from Leicester University answers William’s question: How do bodies grow?

In Dangerous Dan, we learn all about the Musk Ox!

And in Battle of the Sciences, philosopher Walter Veit explains the meaning of life.

What do we learn about?

· A lost £65 million satellite in space
· A flesh eating fly causing havoc in North America
· How clouds make rain
· How YOUR body grows
· And in Battle of the Sciences... the meaning of life!

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Ahoy, explorer. Welcome along. It's time to search the solar system for the smartest science going.
0:07.0	This is a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
0:11.0	My name's Dan around here. We look for all the amazing, the mind-blowing, the earth-shattering stuff through the galaxy.
0:18.9	And this week, have you ever wondered how your body knows when and how to
0:24.3	grow? Through mitosis, the body grows and grows from a single cell, and all these cells
0:33.3	they form our different tissues and parts of the body. So our bones and our brains and muscles and so on.
0:41.3	And to search for our dangerous down, we're headed to the wilds of the Arctic tundra.
0:45.3	And in Battle of the Sciences, we're uncovering one of life's biggest mysteries.
0:51.3	Philosophy of biology is actually an incredibly interesting field where we ask questions
0:57.7	that scientists often neglect, such as what is life and how can consciousness have evolved
1:04.7	in a natural world?
1:06.6	It's all in the way in a brand new fun kids science weekly.
1:13.3	Let's start with your science in the news.
1:16.3	A 65 million pound satellite has been lost in space.
1:21.6	Gone missing.
1:22.2	It was designed and built to spot releases from planet warming gases, which are made through gas and oil production.
1:30.9	The scientists in charge say that communication was lost with the satellite 10 days ago.
1:34.9	They're trying to figure out what happened.
1:36.6	It was meant to collect data for five years on the sources of greenhouse gases, where it's all coming from.
1:42.3	So not only is it lost, money has been blown so
1:45.9	far. It's a major setback for climate-changing efforts. Just imagine that. I mean, space is big,
1:53.2	don't get me wrong, but losing a satellite, where can it have gone to? There's not a lot of
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