Hello Explorer. Welcome along. Vizes down. I hope you're strapped in, ready for blast off.

Across the universe, it's a brand new science quest.

My name is Dan. You have landed on the smartest podcast in the history of the universe.

We're here to explore everything lurking through our galaxy and beyond.

All those science secrets, we will turn them over.

We'll expect what's true, what's awesome, what's dangerous.

We'll get to your questions too.

This week, we're putting one of the biggest animal myths to the test.

So I can unequivocally say that no, they don't have a three-second memory.

They are able to remember how to do things that they've learned for long periods of time.

Also, you can hear about a caterpillar that falls from the sky to poison you

and will head to a world without sunlight and plants uncovering the incredible secrets deep inside caves.

What I'm interested in are things like amphibia that live in caves, like for example

the Ulm, which is the European cave salamander, whose larvae look a little bit like baby dragons.

And in fact, that was one of the ideas as to why the dragon

myths might have originated. It's all on the way in a brand new science quest. And we start

being current and up to date with this week's Science in the News. NASA, the United States Space

Agency. They say they're on track to launch the Artemis II mission in just a few weeks,

where astronauts will fly around the moon for the first time in over 50 years.

You might remember, we spoke about this a couple of weeks ago.

It was meant to happen at the start of March, but a helium leak was discovered, so it was sent

back for repairs. NASA now says it's confident it's fixed the issue and says it could launch

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