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🗓️ 3 August 2024
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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 an oxygen discovery defying our knowledge of the deep ocean.
Dan starts with the latest science news, where we learn about the internal parts of a pre-historic creature pre-dating the dinosaurs being discovered, a breed of butterfly thought to be extinct making a comeback 60 years later and Franz Geiger from Northwestern University in Illinois, USA tells us all about dark oxygen and how it's questioning our knowledge of the sea bed.
Then we delve into your questions where Dan explains where the first bit of energy came from & Laurie Dove from How Stuff Works answers Zayn's question on why trees breath in carbon dioxide?
Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the Saddleback Caterpillar from the East Coast of the USA
The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to Sam McKee from Manchester Metropolitan University about why Molecular Biology is the best kind of science?
What do we learn about?
- A pre-historic creature pre-dating the dinosaurs
- A butterfly believed to be extinct for 60 years making a return
- Dark oxygen defying our knowledge of the deep ocean
- Why trees breathe in carbon dioxide?
- Is Molecular Biology the best type of science?
All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!
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0:00.0 | All right, Explorer, if you're like me, you're a bit bored of life down here on planet Earth. |
0:04.8 | So let's mix things up. Let's travel through space in a brand new Fun Kid Science Weekly. My name is Dan. This is the show that discovers everything secret odd and strange across the universe. |
0:21.0 | We learn all those science secrets that no one else has told you before. |
0:27.2 | This week we'll learn how trees manage to stay alive and they breathe just like us. |
0:33.0 | A tree has on its leaves these tiny microscopic organs called Stomatic. |
0:41.0 | They take in gases and they release gases. So this is a really beneficial |
0:47.0 | process not only for the tree to get nutrients, but for humans as well. |
0:52.0 | Also our battle to fight. but for humans as well. |
0:57.0 | Also our battle to find the greatest science around takes us to a teeny tiny level. |
0:59.0 | We're looking at the building blocks of all life with molecular biology. |
1:06.0 | So we want to know their shape, we want to know how they fit together with each other, |
1:12.0 | and we want to know what it is about their shape or their fit that makes them do their job. |
1:19.2 | And the most stunningly strange creature ever is the special star on our dangerous dad list. |
1:26.0 | It's like something from Doctor Who you'll want to hear all about this in a brand new Fun Kids |
1:30.0 | Science Weekly. |
1:37.0 | Let's start with your science in the news then. The internal parts of a prehistoric creature, |
1:41.0 | the size of a seed have been revealed in astonishing detail. |
1:46.1 | Researchers used powerful x-rays to scan a fossil that's 520 million years old even before the dinos. |
1:54.6 | Now the results show its microscopic blood vessels and nervous system. |
2:00.5 | This thing is tiny and it's a peak inside the body of one of the earliest ancestors of modern insects and spiders and crabs. |
2:08.0 | It was found in the fossil in a pile of prehistoric grit during a study of a half billion year old rock that was found in the north of China |
2:18.5 | and experts are amazed because the chances of finding and being able to do this was almost zero. |
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