Do you feel ready to explore? Is it time to search through the universe?

Must be a brand new fun kid science weekly.

Welcome to the show, my name's Dan, thank you so much for being there for listening, following streaming.

This is the place we meet every single week to have a look around the solar system

to search all of those science secrets that are lurking nearby.

Now this week, as it's December, we're starting to have a look at the science of Christmas.

For the next few weeks, we'll take a look at the details behind everything Santa

Father Christmas needs to get ready for the big day.

Across the world, Old Santa will be delivering gifts to around 1.6 billion children on Christmas Eve.

That's visiting over 5,000 homes every second to make sure every child gets a gift.

Also, you can hear from a forensic scientist.

What's that? We'll find out. She's a genius. She's called Professor Dame Sue Black.

And she'll be on to explain why things we find in the ground can be incredibly important in working out mysteries today.

And so we need to be able to say with confidence these bones are human or they're not human

because the last thing you want to do is set off a murder investigation based on a seal flipper

because you're never going to find anybody guilty.

And I've got your questions to answer as always. This week they are on teeth chattering and giraffes.

There's all that and so much more please. It's the brand new fun kid science weekly.

Let's start things off with your science in the news.

We're going to have to wait a little longer to send something to space from the UK.

The Virgin Orbit company would you to send a small craft into Orbit launch from under a jumbo jet next week.

It'll be the first of its kind launched here in the UK but you just and checks is happening after Christmas.

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