Hello, Explorer, welcome along. I say it's time that we scoot off planet Earth for just a brief moment, and we search out some science secrets lurking through the universe. My name's Dan. It's a brand new Fun Kid Science Weekly.

This week, we'll travel back through time and unpack the cosmic collisions behind the moon's craters.

If you have an asteroid the size of London, 10 kilometers across, it crash lands on Mercury,

crash lands here on Earth, or crash lands on the Moon, and produces a crater which is 50 kilometers, 100 kilometers, even 300 kilometers across.

And our quest to find the greatest science around sees us looking at the science of impatience.

Could evolution be the reason that we struggle to wait?

So impatience is an example where, you know, maybe we'd be much better off if we waited for something, but we take the thing right now.

So you've got a really nice dinner in an hour and then you're really looking forward to it and then someone kind of, you know, gives you a snack.

You eat the snack and then dinner isn't so exciting anymore.

And we'll hunt through caves to find bat eating centipedes.

It's all going on in a brand new Fun Kid Science Weekly.

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

Now nearly 2,000 years after the volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted,

scientists have discovered why a young man's brain was preserved. Researchers found the brain in 2020, but not how you

would imagine. It was actually as a chunk of black glass. And after some research, scientists

now believe that the man was covered in a baking hot cloud

of ash that erupted from the volcano.

It reached 510 degrees Celsius, and then it quickly cooled down, and it turned his brain into

glass, which is why we've still got it 2,000 years later.

How mind-blowing is that? Just a few things.

One, that this poor lad's brain was turned to glass because of this huge heat, way above boiling point,

and 2,000 years later, we can do the science to discover why that happened.

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