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Fun Kids Science Weekly

Have We Found the Fountain of Youth?

Fun Kids Science Weekly

Fun Kids

Education For Kids, Kids & Family, Science

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Professor, astronomer and award winning author Raman Prinja joins us to talk all about the Wonders of the Night Sky, what amazing things we can learn from looking up at the stars and how we can do this from our own home. In Science In The News we find out about a fossilised Dino leg that may have been created during one of the meteorite crashes and a new cure to stop the ageing process! We answer your questions about the brain including does our brain grow? We also catch up with Professor Hallux and Nurse Nanobot in their Map of Medicine this week its on feet,  and  in our NEW Deep Space High Series we learn all about the structure of our earth!

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. I'm Cressida Cowell, author of How to Train Your Dragon, and I'm just popping

0:04.4

in to tell you about my new book series, Witchway to Anywhere. It's a story about four children

0:10.0

who discover that there are alternative worlds beyond our own, and that they can travel to them

0:15.3

with the help of a magical map and a very special gift. Of course, this leads to epic, unexpected

0:21.9

adventures. Witchway to Anywhere, and its sequel, Witchway Round the Galaxy, are both available

0:27.5

to buy now. Happy reading! Hello, welcome to a brand new episode of The Fun Kids Science

0:34.6

Weekly. Let's take a tour, shall we? A tour of the universe to learn some of the smartest

0:40.1

science secrets they're lurking out there. My name's Dan, thank you for being there. This week

0:45.6

we'll take a trip to the smartest school in the solar system, we'll head to Deep Space High

0:50.7

for a new series, and learn about what the Earth is made of. All stars don't have the same

0:56.6

destiny. Some stars will end up with very bizarre objects like black holes and neutron stars,

1:01.4

and that would be their tombstones. That's how they would demise, that would be the ultimate

1:05.2

state of the Earth. Also, we'll look up at the night sky, with the expert astronomer,

1:10.5

a ram-and-pringer, who can tell us what stars we can see from our own garden.

1:15.6

This crust, bit more than you get on a loaf of bread. Some planets have thick crusts,

1:20.0

others have thin ones. Where we hit the next level, things start getting interesting.

1:25.2

And I've got your questions, as always, this week they are both on what's happening in your brain.

1:33.2

That's coming up. Stay there, it's a brand new episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly.

1:40.4

Let's start things off as we always do, with taking a look at the science in the news.

1:46.0

Scientists have found a perfectly preserved leg of a dinosaur. It was found complete with

1:51.6

skin in the US state of North Dakota. Now, this is a big deal. It's thought that the creature

1:57.3

was buried on the actual day, the asteroid struck the Earth, which killed off the dinosaurs.

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