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ποΈ 25 November 2023
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It's time for another trip around the solar system! In this week's Science Weekly, Dan chats to Robert Winston, one of Britain's most famous scientists about his new book The Story of Science
Dan explains all about zebra sharks and answers your questions on how mobile phones work?
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0:00.0 | In this week's episode of Activity Quest, Adam's going behind the scenes at Amazon at their busiest time of the year. |
0:06.4 | We're finding out how a parcel gets from the warehouse to your door. |
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0:26.4 | Hello, it's that time of the week where we sit down, strap ourselves in, |
0:30.1 | take a deep breath, prepare for blast off in a brand new fun kids science weekly. |
0:35.0 | My name is Dan. |
0:40.0 | Welcome to the show that lets you explore the universe and everything beyond searching |
0:44.8 | out those science secrets and then we kind of get you back in around about half an hour. |
0:48.9 | This week we're chatting to a legend too, Professor Robert Winston. You might have heard of him, I reckon grown-ups that you know |
0:56.5 | definitely have because he's presented science on telly for years and years and he's written books too. He's got a new one out. It's called The Story of Science. |
1:08.0 | Soap changed the world. Soap actually is a very important science. |
1:12.0 | So we've been using soap for about 2,000 years and the first |
1:15.5 | seps were made out of natural materials, mostly leaves of particular trees in North Africa. But now of course soap is universal and of course we don't think about |
1:25.2 | soap being important but if you think about it during the pandemic soap was one of the most important things we had |
1:30.6 | because we were able to kill the bacteria on our hands and therefore prevent the spread of |
1:35.1 | infection. |
1:38.6 | And we're checking in with our microbe friends, Benny and Mao. |
1:42.0 | They are two tiny little organisms that are looking at |
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