MIRACULOUS MOLECULES: The Building Blocks of Everything⚛️

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 4 May 2024

⏱️ 30 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 some hedgehogs in Gloucestershire have 'ballooned?

Dan starts with the latest science news, where we learn about NASA's Voyager One resuming sending updates back down to earth, why the sun's damage on Antarctica's wildlife has increased & Emily Harper from Wild Hogs Hedgehog Rescue explains why some have been found to have 'ballooned' in Gloucestershire, England.

Then we delve into your questions where Dan answers Kitty's question on how touch screens work and we pose Harry's question on what molecules are made of to Dr Catherine Walsh from the University of Leeds.

Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the Giant Water bug causing chaos across the world more commonly known as the 'Toe Biter'

The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to Jimmy Waldron from Dinosaurs Will Always Be Awesome about why Palaeontology is the best!

What do we learn about?

- The return of NASA's Voyager One

- Why the Sun is causing damage to Antarctica's wildlife?

- What's causing Gloucestershire's hedgehogs to 'balloon'?

- What are molecules made of?

- Is Palaeontology the best type of science?

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Welcome along, Explorer. If you're wondering what's out there in the universe, well, you've come to the right place.
0:07.2	Because every week, we search through space to find some real secrets. It's a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly. My name is Dan. Thank you so
0:17.4	much for being there for listening for following. Remember you get bonus
0:20.8	episodes as well if you're subscribed to Fun Kids Podcasts.
0:24.9	Now this week we will learn about some of the smallest things in the universe.
0:30.9	Molecules bring kind of atoms together so that they can share electrons and those electrons can sit together in a pair.
0:39.0	And that's why atoms don't tend to float around on their own.
0:42.0	They want to share their electrons with another
0:44.2	atom and that essentially is what creates a molecule.
0:48.0	And our search to discover the greatest science ever takes us back in time heading
0:56.2	hundreds of millions of years ago.
1:00.1	There's always going to be something more to discover.
1:02.4	There will always be a new discovery right around the corner you
1:05.4	won't necessarily even see it coming that's why it's a discovery you don't expect it
1:09.4	you get ready for the excitement of what's going to come next. And you can hear about a big bug.
1:15.0	It's all on the way in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
1:19.0	Let's kick things off with your science in the news.
1:27.0	The US Space Agency, NASA says that its Voyager 1 probe is once again sending good information back to Earth after months of
1:35.8	spouting gibberish. Now Voyager one is 46 years old. It's humanity's most
1:41.1	distant object. It's just been floating across the universe and a computer fault stopped. It's
1:46.8	sending readable data back to us in November. The engineers have now fixed this.
1:51.9	Now Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles away.
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