GRAVITY MYSTERY: What Happens Without It? 🌍✨

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 15 March 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another trip around the solar system on the BIGGER and BETTER Science Weekly!

In 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 to determine which science is the best, and learn what would happen in a world with no gravity!

Dan kicks off with the latest science news, starting with a mishap on the Moon involving a lunar lander. Next, we unpack a discovery that scientists are describing as a "goldmine for potential antibiotics." Finally, Richard Comont from the Bumblebee Conservation Trust joins Dan to discuss the alarming emergency facing bumblebees across the UK.

Then, we answer your questions! Blythe wants to know: will robots take over the world? Dr. Mathew Caley from Queen Mary University answers Arun’s question: how does the human body make cells?

In Dangerous Dan, we learn all about Mount Roraima!

Then, it’s time for Battle of the Sciences! Astronomer Govert Schilling paints a world with no gravity and makes the case for astrophysics...

What do we learn about?

· What went wrong with a recent lunar lander mission

· The alarming emergency facing bumblebees across the UK

· How the body creates cells

· The dangers of Mount Roraima

· And in Battle of the Sciences, we picture a world with no gravity!

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Hello, afternoon, morning, evening, whenever you are joining me on this adventure around the universe.
0:08.2	I hope you're ready for a thrilling ride. It's a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
0:14.8	Welcome along then. My name is Dan. This is the only show that searches out the true secrets of the solar system.
0:22.1	Just think of the technological marvels that we do to make that happen.
0:25.8	This week, we'll explore how your body makes cells.
0:30.6	You see, I've heard they're quite important.
0:34.5	Our bodies contain about 100 million, million cells.
0:39.3	So that's a one with 14 zeros after it.
0:43.3	That's more cells than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
0:47.3	And for our quest to discover the greatest science in the history of the universe,
0:52.3	we'll wonder what a world with no gravity would look
0:56.7	like. If there was no gravity, the moon would fly off into space, the earth would fly off into space,
1:04.6	we would not be bound to our sun and life would cease to exist. And to track down our dangerous Dan this week, we are climbing to the top of a mountain
1:14.8	that has a very strange peak. It's all on the way in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
1:23.9	And we'll start with your science in the news. A spacecraft that landed lopsided on the moon hasn't got enough power to complete its mission.
1:34.0	That's what the company Intuitive Machines have said.
1:38.0	After it touched down on the lunar South Pole a few days ago, they launched the craft Athena and it was supposed to spend
1:46.4	10 days up there searching for water ice, but because it's landed on its side, its solar
1:51.7	panels can't see enough of the sun to recharge, so it's likely to stay there now.
1:57.7	Amazingly, it made it further south than any other lander that we've sent up there before,
2:02.2	but isn't it fascinating? Just one small change in how it landed means it can't be used.
2:07.1	Just think of this enormous project, all the money, all the time that's been spent getting it up
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