INVISIBLE MUSIC: The Tiny Instrument You Can’t Even See 🎻🔬

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🗓️ 21 June 2025

⏱️ 33 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 a musical instrument so small- you need a microscope to see it!

Dan kicks things off with the latest in science news. First, he dives into the discovery of a 43,000-year-old Neanderthal fingerprint found in a cave in Spain. Then, we hear about a mysterious new object that could be a dwarf planet making its way toward our solar system. And finally, Dan chats with Professor Kelly Morrison from Loughborough University, whose team has created the world’s tiniest violin — so small, it’s thinner than a human hair!

Then, we answer your questions! Ned wants to know: How sunflowers follow the sun and Professor Mercedes Durham from Cardiff University answers Theo’s question: How did we evolve to talk?

In Dangerous Dan, we learn all about the Philippine eagle...

In Battle of the Sciences, zoologist Dr. Alex Dittrich from Nottingham Trent University joins us to uncover the creepy world of zombie plants

What do we learn about?

· A 43,000 year old discovery in Spain
· An musical instrument you can't even see
· Why sunflowers follow the Sun
· How humans evolved to talk
· And in Battle of the Sciences, we're learning all about zombie plants!

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Well, look at this explorer, welcome along. I've checked the time, and it's about time that we leave planet Earth and we search the universe for some serious science secrets.
0:12.2	My name is Dan. It's a brand new fun kid science weekly.
0:16.0	And this week, in The Smartest Show in the Galaxy, we'll dive into the amazing journey of how humans
0:22.3	have evolved the ability to talk. So in terms of evolution, why haven't other one,
0:29.6	other species developed it? Maybe they don't have the need, maybe they don't have the brain
0:35.0	capacity, but it does seem something that we find in humans.
0:39.3	We'll learn all about an eagle that hunts monkeys and in Battle of the Sciences.
0:45.3	We're talking zoology with Dr Alex Dittrich, who's revealing the creepy secrets of zombie plants.
0:53.5	A lot of them have really, really exciting strategies, like some of them may be parasitic
0:59.5	and they may live within the bodies of other animals.
1:03.5	It's all on the way in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
1:10.4	Let's start with your science in the news. A Neanderthal fingerprint that's 43,000 years old, has been
1:17.8	discovered in Spain. It could be the oldest and the most complete Neanderthal fingerprint ever spotted.
1:23.2	It was found in the craggy rocks around central Spain, in cliffs overlooking at the Arasma River.
1:31.1	Neanderthals were a species of humans that lived up to 400,000 years ago.
1:36.1	There are cousins, kind of, and they roamed around Europe and Asia.
1:39.8	How mind-blowing is it that we can still discover things that were first left 43,000 years ago?
1:48.9	And that's just a guess.
1:50.3	We'll have to do even more smart carbon dating to figure that out, but how genius is it that we can guess at that?
1:56.0	Also, this week, a new possible dwarf planet is heading near our solar system.
2:00.3	The extraterrestrial object, 2017 OOF-201, travels in a super-sized orbit all around the sun,
2:08.7	and scientists have spotted it further out than Pluto.
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