GRAVITY'S GRIP: How It Shapes Our Planets 🌍🚀

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 31 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 answer YOUR questions, have scientists battle it out to determine which science is the best, and this week we're learning all about why planets are round-shaped!

First up, we investigate NASA's plan to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 — a huge step toward powering future lunar bases! Then, we’ll explore a volcano that erupted for the first time in over 500 years, shaking things up in a way no one’s seen for centuries. And finally, Dan is joined by evolutionary scientist Angus Davinson, who explains the mission underway to save snails threatened by their beauty.

Then, we answer your questions! Barney wants to know: how Carbon is made, and reserve astronaut Meganne Christian answers Sean's 'Why do astronauts need space food?'

In Dangerous Dan, we learn all about the Spider-tailed horned viper

And in Battle of the Sciences, Neil Raath from the University of Warwick reveals how Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing could be key to saving our planet!

What do we learn about?

· What NASA is planning to build on the Moon
· How Carbon is made
· Why planets are round-shaped
· The deadly Spider-tailed horned viper
· And in Battle of the Sciences... how to help save our planet!

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	360 seconds is all that stands between one family and a once in a lifetime experience.
0:07.0	I've got a stack of questions. They've got 360 seconds.
0:11.0	Finish the game with any amount of time left on the clock and you win.
0:16.0	But if you hit zero at any point, sadly, you walk away empty-handed.
0:21.6	They're in control of the time. How they spend it is up to them.
0:25.6	Finish with one second left to win.
0:29.6	Could you do it?
0:31.6	If it's the correct answer, you have completed.
0:33.6	360 seconds, stop your clock.
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0:46.1	brand new game show 360 seconds find it wherever you get your podcasts just search 360 360 seconds. It's a new week, so let's
0:57.4	stuff it full of science. My name's Dan. It's time to go exploring for a brand new fun kid's
1:03.6	science weekly. Thank you for popping along on this adventure to discover so many of the
1:09.8	science secrets lurking
1:11.5	through the solar system. This week, we'll learn why planets refuse to have corners.
1:18.9	We uncover why they aren't cubes, blobs or triangles, but smooth spinning spheres.
1:26.1	So a good example of this at a much smaller scale for us is rolling
1:31.5	play-do between your hands. So the pressure you get from applying the pressure towards the
1:37.2	play-dough from rolling it around into a ball is equivalent of what gravity is doing to a planet.
1:45.2	And we reveal how smarter manufacturing and eco-friendly materials
1:49.5	might be the key to a greener future.
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