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🗓️ 6 July 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 why AI has been enlisted to find the world's loneliest tree a partner.
Dan starts with the latest science news, where we learn about a study in Kenya that has discovered that elephants have nicknames for each other, how the smallest known ape in the world's fossil - the Buronious Manfredschmidi - has been found in Germany and Laura Cinti from the University of Southampton tells us about the world's loneliest plant and why AI has been asked to help find it a partner?
Then we delve into your questions where Dan answers Astrid's question on what animal is the best hunter?
Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the Brown Recluse Spider from North America and why it's venom is so feared?
The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to Nigel Clarke from the University of Sheffield about why Materials Physics is the best kind of science?
What do we learn about?
- Elephants having nicknames
- The world's smallest known ape's fossil being discovered
- Why the world's loneliest plant needs a partner?
- What animal is the best hunter?
- Is Materials Physics the best type of science?
All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!
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0:00.0 | Welcome along Explorer. My name's Dan. Thank you for being there. This is the perfect place if you're a bit bored of life down here on planet Earth because we're exploring the universe. It's a brand new fun kids science weekly. Fun Kids Science Weekly. |
0:14.3 | This is the Greatest Show in the Universe. |
0:16.5 | I have won that award four times every single year. |
0:20.4 | They give it to us out on Neptune. We search out all those science secrets. |
0:25.0 | This week you can hear how experts are trying to find the world's |
0:28.6 | loneliness tree a friend. |
0:30.8 | And it is so old, it's been around these sort of plant. |
0:36.0 | Cycles have been around since the time before dinosaurs. |
0:40.0 | And these are what a planet used to be full of cycads and these are what dinosaurs used to be |
0:42.0 | full of cycads and these are what a planet used to be full of circuits. |
0:43.0 | They may be what dinosaurs to feed on. |
0:45.0 | These are old ancient plants. |
0:48.0 | Also we'll head into space for this week's Battle of the Sciences |
0:52.0 | for a field that you've heard about, but how much |
0:55.3 | can you really say about astrophysics? |
0:59.6 | It's actually that drive of trying to answer questions which haven't been answered, which makes it so exciting. |
1:05.8 | And knowing that we still don't really understand entropy, we don't understand really how it connects at all to the quantum universe for example that's a big driver for me |
1:16.4 | being interested in the subject. |
1:20.1 | And we'll talk all about the best predator in the world in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly |
1:33.7 | Let's start with this week's science in the news and it turns out elephants have names. A new study from |
1:40.4 | from scientists in the United States has found that African elephants in Kenya will call |
1:45.9 | to their friends with individual rumbles and grumbles. Experts say it shows elephants use specific noises for individuals that they know. |
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