EXPLORING THE FROZEN FRONTIER: What is Antarctica's ULTRA Drone all about?🔬

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 17 February 2024

⏱️ 27 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 what's so amazing about the Windraces ULTRA drone and it's journey to Antarctica.

Dan starts with the latest science news, where we learn about Space X's mission to land on the South Pole on the Moon, why Polar Bears face starvation? And Miriam McNabb from Drone Life joins us to explain the UK's mission to learn more about antarctica through it's Windracers ULTRA drone mission.

Then we delve into your questions where Dan answers Arthur's query on whether the Earth will ever run out of water and then we pose Tolu's question on why we burp to Naomi Lavelle AKA Dr How Stuff Wows

Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the Gila Monster - one of most deadly creatures in North America

The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to Professor Jan Zalasiewicz from the University of Leicester all about why Geology is the best! Then we pay a visit to Finlay from our Geology Rocks series where we learn all about the importance of Fossils.

What do we learn about?

- Space X's mission to the moon

- Britain's Antarctica drone mission

- Why we burp?

- The Gila Monster - North America's deadly lizard

- Why Geology is the best type of science?

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Welcome along, Explorers! It's that time of the week again.
0:03.6	Let's get ready to explore the universe.
0:06.6	It's a brand new fun kid science weekly.
0:09.2	My name's Dan, thank you for being. They're so excited to explore with you.
0:14.8	This is where we search out all the science secrets lurking around the
0:19.6	solar system. And it is bigger, it is better than ever. This week we're carrying on our
0:24.8	challenge trying to find the greatest science in the world. Last week we looked
0:29.8	at soil. This week we're staying underground looking at rocks.
0:34.0	Geology is a crossroads of the past, the deep past, and also the more immediate past.
0:41.0	What happened just a few years ago or a few
0:43.4	centuries or a few thousand years ago and extending up into the future.
0:50.3	And finally we will solve one of the greatest mysteries of our life
0:55.7	Something that has shaken shocked and surprised humanity for years at last we will discover finally why we burp
1:07.1	We need to get rid of some of those gases that build up while we're eating and while we're digesting our food. So what happens is as we're eating
1:16.4	we're taking in foods, we're taking in drinks, and we're also taking in some
1:19.6	gases just by the process of moving our mouth and they come down into the stomach along with
1:26.1	everything else.
1:27.1	Plus, you know, if you drink like a fizzy drink or something like that, those gases
1:31.3	end up in your stomach as well.
1:33.0	And you can hear all about the only venomous lizard in the United States of America.
1:40.0	It's all coming up on a brand new fun kid science weekly.
1:43.0	Let's kick things off with your science in the news then.
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