COSMIC CALCULATORS: How We Use Computers in Space🖥️❓

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 12 October 2024

⏱️ 29 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 a tree-planting robot.

Dan starts with the latest science news where we learn all a spacecraft on its way to visit an asteroid knocked off course by NASA in 2022, how scientists confirmed that the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago wasn't alone and University of Surrey's Robert Siddall tells us all about their tree-planting robot named Plantolin.

Then we delve into your questions where Dan explains whether the moon has a core & Dan O'Neill from the Royal Veterinary College answers Ben's question on why dogs have wet noses.

Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the Trapdoor Spider

The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to Andreea Font from Liverpool John Moores University to learn about why Computational Astrophysics is the best kind of science?

What do we learn about?

A spacecraft sent on a mission to save an asteroid
Why there was more than one asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
A tree-planting robot
Why do dogs have wet noses?
Is Computational Astrophysics the best type of science?

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Hello Explorer, can you hear me? I found myself marooned in a lab on a giant slab of space rock
0:10.1	that is hurtling across the galaxy.
0:12.8	Now that's bad news.
0:14.0	The good news, it is filled with all the secrets of the universe.
0:18.8	So I thought I'd share some.
0:20.0	It's a brand new Fun Kid Science Weekly.
0:22.3	My name's Dan. It's a brand new fun kid's science weekly.
0:26.0	My name's Dan, thank you for being there. This is where we explore all the science lurking
0:30.0	all over our universe, maybe even the multiverse.
0:34.8	Here's what we got going on this week.
0:36.8	We'll answer one of the most important questions
0:39.8	I think we've ever been sent to the show,
0:41.7	certainly one that sparked my imagination.
0:45.2	We'll find out why dogs have wet noses.
0:48.0	Shh!
0:49.0	When their noses are wet, that means that it's easier for the dogs tongues to come out and clean their
0:53.6	nostrils. Dogs don't really sweat through the rest of their body. They lose
0:57.2	heat by panting or they lose it by having water evaporated from their
1:02.3	nostrils.
1:03.0	Also our battle to find the greatest science around takes us into the strange world of astro physics.
1:10.0	We don't actually know what dark energy is, which is quite a lot because it's like most of the
1:16.8	universe is dark energy. We also don't know exactly how the universe came to be, the so-called
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