EGGSTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY: The 1,700 year old Roman Egg found in Aylesbury🥚

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 24 February 2024

⏱️ 28 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 put YOUR questions to our team of experts, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn all about the 1,700 year old roman chicken egg discovered in Aylesbury.

Dan starts with the latest science news, where we learn about why the ERS-2 spacecraft has crashed down earth, an incredibly rare turtle found in India and Edward Biddulph from Oxford Archaeology joins us to explain the mystery of how a 1,700 year old Roman chicken egg was discovered in the British town of Aylesbury.

Then we delve into your questions where Dan explains why space is so cold and then we pose Lucas' question on why people get allergies to Dr Gururaj Arumugakani

Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the Marbled Salamander

The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to Professor Adam Taylor from the University of Lancaster all about why Anatomy is the best! Then we pay a visit to Professor Hallux and Nurse Nanabot as they take a deep dive into the human body to find out all about antibiotics

What do we learn about?

- The end of ERS2's time in space

- An exteremely rare turtle found in India

- The 1,700 year old Roman chicken egg found in Aylesbury

- Why people are allergic to things?

- Why Anatomy is the best type of science?

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Welcome along, I fancy exploring. How about you? Let's search out the secrets of the solar system.
0:07.8	It's a brand new fun kid science weekly.
0:10.0	My name is Dan, so happy to have you along. It's our club of explorers. We try and find all those strange bits of science that lurk all around.
0:22.0	This week we will carry on our Battle of the Sciences and hear why
0:26.7	the geniuses that look at your body are the best.
0:32.0	So anatomy is one of the oldest sciences known to man, it dates back to the ancient Greeks, the ancient Egyptians and before.
0:38.0	It's a science that involves examination of the body and that's the body as we look at it as we
0:44.4	look at each other and ourselves in the mirror or our siblings our family members
0:48.3	and seeing the differences on the surface.
0:58.8	Also are you allergic to something? I don't know, maybe pets or foods or nuts or pollens? Well, you can find out why.
1:01.8	There are two aspects to it. One is the food or the allergen in question. So some tend to be generally more allergic than others.
1:11.0	And the other thing is how your immune system tends to see them.
1:14.6	And you can hear why space is so very cold. It's a brand new week of the bigger and better than ever Fun Kids Science Weekly.
1:27.0	Let's kick things off with your science in the news then. This week we said goodbye to a pioneering satellite.
1:37.0	The ERS spacecraft has studied the Earth for more than 30 years. It looked at the land, the ocean and the changing climate.
1:46.0	And now it's done. A few days ago, the two-toned spacecraft fell to Earth and it completely burnt up in the atmosphere.
1:52.0	No one spotted any falling
1:54.4	remains or debris. It's completely gone. Amazing isn't it? This thing has been up
1:59.7	there for like 30 years since the 90s and has really helped what we do and has paved the way for bigger
2:06.6	and better spacecraft which is taking over now.
2:09.4	Also the first breeding population of an incredibly rare turtle has been discovered in
2:15.1	India. Conservationists found the nesting site of the very secretive Cantor's giant
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