This is a podcast from the children's radio station Fun Kids.

Listen on DAB digital radio across the UK or online at funkidslive.com.

So I think we'll start this episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly with a riddle to get us in the mood for, you know, amazing and dangerous discovery.

So what can be soft enough to caress your skin, heavy enough to crush

your whole body, and light enough to float on air? Have a think and make sure you're still here

at the end of the show because we'll find out the answer. Right, now you're in and you're staying.

Welcome along to the Fun Kids Science Weekly. Hello, my name is Dan.

We're talking about the most awesome, strange and often like desperately dangerous things in the

universe. So if you're like me and you're constantly fascinated by everything that's around you

and you're always wondering why things happen and why they

work in the way they do. Well, this show is for you because today we're talking techno tablets.

We're learning about the largest and most dangerous active volcano in the world and we'll chat

to the people behind an attempt to take a car to 1,000 miles an hour.

First, let's take a trip to the coolest school in the universe where Professor Pulsar is teaching about cosmic rays.

Deep Space High, the universe handbook with the Science and Technology Facilities Council.

Each other work on and travels deep space high, the school in space, but hurry because lessons are a part to begin.

Whoa!

Wait for me!

Something puzzling is going on in here today. My lunchbox, my brand new one with the shiny stars on it, has disappeared.

I think it must have been slurped into a wormhole. Yeah, there's definitely something mysterious

happening. A strange hairy alien lifeworm has appeared in my desk and it smells awful. Look, I'll just lift the lid

tiny crack to show you, but don't get too close.

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