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Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Get ready for another big and brilliant dive into the world of science on this week’s Science Weekly!

We’re exploring the incredible science of the human heart, uncovering how it pumps, why it’s so powerful, and the secrets hidden in every beat.

In Science in the News, one of the UK’s most critically endangered mammals might be making a comeback, Jeff Bezos’ space mission has taken a major step forward, and Abi Crane from the University of Southampton joins Dan to reveal details of a newly discovered T. rex species.

Then it’s time for your questions. Mathew wants to know how allergies work, and James Clark from King’s College London explains exactly why we have a heart.

Dangerous Dan returns with a tiny but terrifying creature, the blue ant, one of the most dangerous insects on Earth.

And in Battle of the Sciences, TED Talk speaker Chip Colwell steps up to argue why museology, the science of museums, deserves the crown.

Plus, Professor Hallux is on a mission to build a better heart, but can he improve on one of nature’s most impressive machines?

This week, we learn about:
– How the human heart works
– Why allergies happen
– A brand new species of T. rex
– The mysterious and deadly blue ant
– How museums help us understand history and science

All that and more on this week’s Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Welcome along, Explorer. My name's Dan. It's you, it's me, and an incredible adventure across the
0:07.8	universe. Let's search out those secrets, shall we? It's time for a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
0:14.9	This is the podcast where we search out all the science that's lurking through the solar system and beyond,
0:21.7	and we learn so much of the good stuff.
0:24.5	This week we're cracking open the science of your heart, how it pumps why it's so powerful,
0:29.9	and the secrets hidden in every beat.
0:33.3	Your heart in a lifetime beats about 35 billion times. I'm a male and my blood volume is around about
0:41.7	six litres and I need to pump six litres of blood around my body every minute. Also, our dangerous
0:48.9	Dan presents us with a confusingly named creature and we're stepping into the past, exploring the science and
0:56.3	stories that shape what we know about the world.
1:00.1	You get to be a kind of hero of history.
1:03.1	Museum workers get to choose what awesome things to collect and are preserved, kind of like
1:08.0	being a guardian for how humans will be remembered for all of time.
1:12.9	It's all on the way in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
1:20.8	Let's start with your science in the news. One of the UK's most critically endangered mammals,
1:27.4	the wildcat, could make a return from extinction.
1:31.2	That's what conservationists say.
1:33.4	The Southwest Wildcat Project hopes to bring back 50 of the creatures from 2028 after a study found that they could flourish in the English countryside.
1:46.3	Now, this reintroduction, it follows a breeding scheme that's already happened in Scotland, which has boosted numbers there, but also
1:51.6	there are concerns that the carnivores could pose a threat to the poultry, the gamebirds and the native
1:56.9	species that live in the ecosystem. So if you reintroduce a predator there, something that's
2:02.9	going to feast on other animals that haven't been eaten by that creature before, they'll be a little
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