AURORA ADVENTURES: Explaining the Northern Lights💥

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 29 June 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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

This episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly we continue our bigger and better podcast where we put YOUR questions to our team of experts, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn all about the discovery of the earliest and most distant galaxy.

Dan starts with the latest science news, where we learn about a rare bridled tern and a golden puffin discovered just off the North East coast of the UK, how firefighters are dealing with wildfires in the world's biggest tropical wetlands in Brazil - The Pantanel and Kevin Hainline from the University of Arizona tells us about the earliest and most distant galaxy discovered by the James Webb Telescope called JADES-GS-z14-0.

Then we delve into your questions where Dan explains how viruses are cured and we pose Tiffany's question on how the northern lights are formed to Astronomer Tom Kerss.

Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the Goliath Tiger Fish and why it's so feared in African waters.

The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to Charlotte Dodson from the University of Bath about why Structural Biology is the best kind of science?

What do we learn about?

- Two rare fish discovered off the coast of the UK

- Brazil's Tropical Wildfires

- The most distant and earliest galaxy discovered by the James Webb Telescope

- How the Northern Lights are formed?

- Is Structural Biology the best type of science?

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Hello Explorer, welcome along to a brand new adventure around the universe.
0:06.1	We are leaving planet Earth for just half an hour or so.
0:09.6	Let's learn some secrets, eh? It's the Fun Kids Science Weekly.
0:14.0	My name is Dan, and this week in the greatest podcast in the universe,
0:19.0	we will stare into the night sky, finding the sweeps of colours that streak across it and learn all
0:25.4	about the northern lights.
0:27.8	And when those particles within the solar wind are pushed down into the atmosphere and they collide
0:32.4	with the oxygen atoms they collide with the oxygen atoms.
0:34.0	They make the oxygen atoms glow. They give them energy.
0:36.7	It's a bit like heating them up, but what they really do is they give them a little bit of energy
0:40.4	and those atoms give the energy back and they give it back as light.
0:44.0	Also in our quest to find the best science ever, you can hear about making medicines.
0:52.0	The job of a structural biologist within that is to think about how a new
0:56.1	potential drug is binding the protein that it will eventually target in the cell and
1:00.4	feed it back to a chemist to help the chemist make a new piece of
1:04.3	chemistry which can then be tested which will hopefully be an even better drug.
1:08.3	And we've got a big African fish swimming onto our dangerous Dan list.
1:14.1	Steer clear, it might bite it's all on the way in a brand new fun kid's science
1:17.7	weekly.
1:18.7	Let's start with your science in the news then. An incredibly rare bridled
1:28.8	turn and golden puffing have been spotted within days of each other.
1:34.0	A northeast island just off the coast of the UK.
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