BEHIND THE EYES: Exploring Orthoptics & How Our Vision Works👁️

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 7 September 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

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 answer YOUR questions, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn all about when NASA's stranded astronauts could return to Earth

Dan starts with the latest science news, why five species of seabird to the UK's red list of birds - and why they're in need of conservation, how Marwell Zoo delivered the miracle birth and The National Space Centre's Dhara Patel from Longleat Safari Park tells us all about how SpaceX will help return NASA''s stranded astronauts in 2025.

Then we delve into your questions where Dan explains why gold is so expensive & answers Isaac's question asking how bouncy balls work?

Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the Amazonian Giant Centipede

The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to Karzan Hughes from the University of Sheffield about why the Orthoptics is the best kind of science?

What do we learn about?

- Why 5 species of seabird have been added to the UK's red list of birds

- The miracle birth of a baby giraffe at Marwell Zoo

- What the future holds for NASA's stranded astronauts?

- How bouncy balls work?

- Is Orthoptics the best type of science?

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Welcome along Explorer. It's time to discover all the greatest science news and learn some secrets
0:06.1	that have been uncovered in the last few days in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
0:11.2	My name's Dan, this is the only place that we really do
0:17.8	uncover what's happening way out there in the universe. This week we'll get an update on the story of the
0:25.3	stranded space searches. Do you remember that? A few weeks ago we heard about the
0:30.4	astronauts who went up to the International Space Station.
0:33.6	They were meant to be there for eight days, but something went wrong, so they'll be stuck there
0:36.7	for eight months.
0:38.8	It turns out though, there is a plan to get them home. Boeing are still in their testing stages and they're now at the point where they're testing
0:47.0	for the very final time before they make it operational with crew.
0:51.0	So that's why Sunita and Barry are up on this mission and
0:55.1	unfortunately it hasn't quite gone to plan so I'm not sure that this will be the
0:59.1	final mission before Boeing become operational.
1:01.7	You can hear more from Dara in just a sec,
1:05.0	and this week's quest to discover the greatest science ever
1:09.0	finds us looking at the things that help you look.
1:13.0	Our eye when we are born is actually relatively well formed,
1:20.0	but our ability to see isn't.
1:22.0	And so actually our vision develops very, very, very rapidly within the first few years of life and continues
1:29.2	to develop until the age of seven or maybe 10 years of age.
1:35.5	And big question, how do bouncy balls bounce?
1:38.6	We'll find out it's a brand new fun kids science weekly. Fun Kids Science Weekly.
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