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Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another trip around the solar system on the BIGGER and BETTER Science Weekly!

This episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly we continue our bigger and better podcast where we put YOUR questions to our team of experts, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn all about why NASA want the Moon to have its own time zone?

Dan starts with the latest science news, where we learn about rope bridges have been installed in the UK's Forest of Dean to help its mice, the reason for the earth's biggest ever burst of light and Catherine Heymans, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, joins us to talk all about why the Moon could soon have its own time zone.

Then we delve into your questions where Dan answers Edith's question on whether fireworks are harmful to the planet and we pose Ben's question on how batteries work to Marshall Brain from How Stuff Works.

Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the Bobbitt Worm which can be found lingering waiting to attack in the Pacific and Indian oceans.

The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to Dr Robin Kramer from the University of Lincoln all about Faces! Then we pay a visit to Techno Mum to learn all about fingerprint technology.

What do we learn about?

- Mice using rope bridges in the Forest of Dean

- What caused the biggest ever burst of light?

- Could the moon have its own time zone?

- How do batteries work?

- Why the study of spiders is the best type of science?

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Calling all of explorers if that's you
0:03.0	welcome to the show this is the only place
0:07.0	where we speed around the universe we search out all those secrets lurking welcome Welcome to the Fun Kids Science Weekly.
0:15.5	My name is Dan. This is the speediest show in the universe. We'll get you all around the place at about half an hour.
0:24.1	And this week we've got one of our favorite geniuses on answering your questions.
0:28.7	It's Marshall Brain who runs How Stuff Works, one of the smartest websites around, and we're talking
0:35.1	all about what powers things for you every day. You're taking a chemical
0:40.3	reaction and you're using it to create electricity.
0:45.0	So you want that in a package that you can carry around with you and usually that involves some kind of liquid or paste or something so the package is just
0:54.9	keeping it all together.
0:56.7	And we're back searching for the best science around.
1:01.4	This week it's all about why we can recognize faces.
1:06.0	We have to be able to identify people.
1:08.0	So we learn new faces, we learn to recognize people,
1:12.0	we couldn't have a social life, we couldn't function in the world very easily if we couldn't
1:16.1	identify those that we know, family and friends.
1:20.1	And you can hear about one of the most terrifying formidable predators in the ocean.
1:26.0	It's like something out of Doctor Who, seriously.
1:29.0	Stick around for a brand new Fun kids science weekly. And we'll start things off with your science in the news.
1:40.0	This is very sweet mini rope bridges have been installed in one of
1:45.0	England's ancient forests to help Hazel dormice travel safely between treetops.
1:51.3	Two 20-meter-long bridges have been built over a track in the
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