MYTHICAL MINDS: The Science of Vampires🧛♂️🩸
Fun Kids Science Weekly
Fun Kids
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🗓️ 14 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 the animal with the world's strongest bite!
Dan kicks things off with the latest in science news. First up is a fascinating discovery that cats can tell the difference between the smell of their owners and strangers. Then we find out why the ocean is getting darker and what that could mean for our planet. And finally, Dan is joined by John McFall, who lost his leg in a motorbike accident at 19, became a Paralympic sprinter and a surgeon, and is now training to be the world’s first astronaut with a physical disability.
Then, we answer your questions! Romy wants to know: What would happen if we didn't have any platelets in our blood and geneticist, Dr. Sara Goodacre from University of Nottingham, answers Romi's question: 'Who were the 'real' first people to be alive on Earth?'
In Dangerous Dan, we learn all about an animal with the world's strongest bite!
In Battle of the Sciences, behavioural psychologist, Paul Davies, joins Dan in Battle of the Sciences exploring why people believe in the likes of vampires and unicorns...
What do we learn about?
· What's happening to the world's oceans
· The amazing journey of one remarkable man
· Who the 'real' first people alive on Earth were
· The fierce Kangal dog
· And in Battle of the Sciences, why we believe in vampires!
All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, explorer. It's time to discover what else there is around the universe than just our life down here on planet Earth. |
| 0:08.9 | Let's get cracking. It's a brand new fun kid science weekly. |
| 0:13.7 | My name is Dan. This week in The Smartest Show in the Solar System, we will travel back in time to meet the very first people on Earth. |
| 0:24.7 | It's probably 200,000 years ago, which is about 8,000 generations. So imagine, you know, parents, |
| 0:32.9 | grandparents, great-grandparents, now do that 8,000 times. And then you get back to the point where we think, |
| 0:38.9 | no, we're pretty confident. That's a person right there. Also, you can hear about a dog with the |
| 0:45.0 | strongest bite in the world. And in Battle of the Sciences, we'll sink our teeth into a juicy |
| 0:50.1 | question. Why might you believe in vampires? |
| 0:59.9 | Vampires, the other side, sometimes we quite like to be scared by something, |
| 1:02.4 | something actually that might be hiding in the cupboard. |
| 1:06.7 | So those things are thought of the opposites, the optimistic world we want to live in, |
| 1:11.3 | and sometimes that little scared world that we want to fight and become the hero in that world. |
| 1:15.1 | It's all in the way in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly. |
| 1:21.7 | Let's start with your science in the news. |
| 1:26.5 | Cats can tell the difference between the smell of their owner and a stranger. |
| 1:28.3 | That's what a new study by the Tokyo University of Agriculture is found. After they've spotted cats spending longer sniffing tubes |
| 1:34.3 | containing the stench of unknown people than the ones with their owner's scent, it shows |
| 1:40.3 | that the stranger smell is a bit different to them. It's unclear whether they can tell apart |
| 1:46.1 | specific people or they just recognise smells that are familiar. Now, if you have a cat, you'll know, |
| 1:53.3 | is this really news? But that's what science is about. We have an idea. I have a cat. I know that |
| 1:59.8 | it smells me and it knows my smell better than anyone |
| 2:01.9 | else, but sometimes we need science to officially prove it so, and that's what they've done over in |
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