Lunar Cities: NASA Plans to Build a Base on the Moon 🏗️👨🚀
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids
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🗓️ 9 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Science Quest! 🧪 This week, we’re traveling from the depths of prehistoric oceans to the future of the Moon. We’re investigating ancient sea monsters, saving squirrels, and answering the weirdest body questions you’ve ever had.
What Do We Learn About?
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🐙 Ancient Tentacled Titans: New research suggests that giant octopuses may have ruled the oceans 100 million years ago. Imagine a predator the size of a bus with eight arms!
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🚀 Moon Base 2030: Kevin Olsen from Oxford University joins us to discuss NASA’s incredible plan to build a permanent home on the Moon. What will life be like in a lunar colony?
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🐿️ The Red Squirrel Rescue: England’s iconic Red Squirrel is facing a fight for survival. We look at why they are close to extinction and what can be done to save them.
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🌈 Nature’s Warning Labels: Alectra wants to know why venomous animals are so brightly colored. We reveal why "looking fabulous" is actually a deadly warning to predators!
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🤔 The Great Nipple Mystery: Gareth Nye from Salford University answers Nick’s question: Why do boys have nipples? It’s an evolutionary glitch that goes all the way back to how we grow before we’re even born.
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🦅 Dangerous Dan: Meet Haast's Eagle. This extinct giant from New Zealand was big enough to hunt prey 15 times its own weight!
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✨ The 13-Billion-Year Mystery: Astronomer Ana Puglisi steps into the Brain Box for a high-speed round of questions about the deepest secrets of our universe.
And join explorer Marina Ventura as she dives inside the human body! In Episode 12, Marina is getting up close and personal with your muscles. Find out how your body moves, how your biceps flex, and what’s actually happening under your skin when you run, jump, or even smile.
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Men, Little Miss, are back in Happy Meal, and they're off on a road trip. |
| 0:03.4 | Your little one can go somewhere exciting with Little Miss Brave. Laugh all the way there with Mr. Tickle or make up an adventure all of their own. On this road trip, anything's possible. Some fun, some food, it's all inside this happy meal. Until the 8th of June from 11am, includes one pre-selected book or toy. What stocks last? Subject to availability. Hello, Explorer. |
| 0:21.8 | Welcome along to our quick trip, a zip around the solar system. Let's search out all those |
| 0:27.9 | science secrets. It's time for a new science quest. My name's Dan. This show is all about discoveries, |
| 0:35.0 | geniuses and your questions too. And this week, well, |
| 0:39.4 | we're talking about something that serves zero purpose for men, but they're always there. |
| 0:48.3 | Most mammals will start off with them. Most mammals will keep them, but there's a few weird exceptions where they |
| 0:55.4 | have got rid of them, but we just don't know why they have and why we haven't. Also, you can hear |
| 1:01.5 | about an eagle the size of a human, and we look at space. It's a 13 billion-year-old mystery. Today |
| 1:09.5 | will tear through the biggest secrets at light speed. |
| 1:14.2 | When I was about five years old, my favorite bedtime story was the story of how the Big Bang came in place |
| 1:20.5 | and how the universe and galaxies came to be and was also very fascinated about Saturn's and its rings. |
| 1:28.0 | It's all on the way in a brand new science quest. |
| 1:33.4 | Let's start with your science in the news. |
| 1:36.0 | And giant octopuses may have ruled the ancient oceans 100 million years ago when the dinosaurs |
| 1:42.9 | roamed. |
| 1:43.9 | That's according to new research. |
| 1:46.3 | Some of the earliest octopuses are thought to have been powerful predators with strong arms |
| 1:51.3 | for grabbing prey and beak-like jaws for munching on the shells and the bones of other animals. |
| 1:57.8 | A new study by scientists of some remarkably well-preserved jaws |
| 2:02.7 | suggests that these octopuses reached 19 metres long. It made them perhaps the largest |
| 2:08.2 | invertebrates ever known to scientists. And we've only just discovered them. Could this be true? |
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