MIDWEEKLY: How Do Snakes Move?🐍💨
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
This Week’s Big Questions!
You’ve been sending in your brilliantly curious questions, and this week…
☀️ Rufus wants to know: What type of star is the Sun?
🐍 Ralph is wondering: How do snakes move?
💎 Orion asks: How are diamonds so strong?
💧 Luppa wants to know: How are tears made?
🪟 Ace is curious: How is glass made?
🪵 Clem asks: How do woodpeckers avoid headaches?
Plus, join Principal Pulsar and his class! This week they're learning all about the different types of water on Earth. This includes ice, steam and even snow!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Explorer, welcome along to a brand new Fun Kid Science Midweekly. My name is Dan. This is your |
| 0:10.7 | bonus buy of incredible science where you and me we search through the solar system. We just |
| 0:15.8 | scour for all those smart secrets, really. And this is a question special. So if you ever have anything |
| 0:23.2 | science, either you want answered on this podcast, best thing to do, leave it as a voice |
| 0:28.0 | note for me. You can do that on the free Fun Kids app. It's FunKidslive.com too. Really easy. |
| 0:33.4 | There's a big button and click it. Let me know who you are. What are you thinking? What's your |
| 0:37.2 | question? And then we'll sort it. Should me know who you are. What are you thinking? What's your question? |
| 0:38.2 | And then we'll sort it. |
| 0:39.8 | Should we start? |
| 0:40.7 | All right. |
| 0:41.2 | Here's one from Rufus. |
| 0:45.4 | Hi, Dan. |
| 0:46.7 | My name is Rufus and this is my question. |
| 0:49.8 | What type of star is the sun? |
| 0:52.3 | What type of star is the sun? What type of star is the sun? |
| 0:55.7 | I think we forget that it's a star sometimes, don't we? |
| 1:01.1 | Because we see stars in the universe across the night sky, |
| 1:05.3 | and they're so bright, but so far away, we don't really remember that, |
| 1:09.9 | hang on, that big sun that powers us, yeah, that's a |
| 1:12.2 | star too. Well, it's a yellow dwarf, specifically a G-type main sequence star. Its surface is about |
| 1:20.6 | 5,500 degrees Celsius, and that makes it appear that brilliant white colour. And it's in the main bit of its life. |
| 1:29.2 | It's very busy with nuclear fusion, turning hydrogen into helium. And in doing that, it makes |
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