All right, explorers, life down here on planet Earth is getting a little bit boring.

So why don't we travel across the universe and search for some exciting mind-bending discoveries?

It's a brand new Fun Kid Science Weekly.

My name is Dan.

Thank you for listening.

This week in the smartest show in the solar system, we will learn why it is you sometimes cry.

But humans are really specific in that we are the only animals that also produce tears when we're in emotional states.

And that seems to be part of how we're

expressing those emotions. That's famous TV scientist Sophie Scott. She'll join us in a little bit. And

in our battle of the sciences this week, we will dive into the art of sleeping and will learn why

animals hibernate for so long.

They just enter a state which is indeed literally between life and death.

All the body functions slow down and they can save energy.

They don't need to eat sometimes for many months in a row.

And for our dangerous stand this week, we are headed to Australia, the home of

dangerous things, to look at one of the world's largest lizards. It's all on the way in a brand

new fun kid's science weekly. Let's start with your science in the news. Water could have been

around millions of years earlier than scientists had previously

thought. New research shows that the first stars in the universe made lots of water when they died

about 100 million years after the Big Bang. Now scientists studying the universe's first

supernovas, that's what happens when

stars die. They have seen the first signs of water there, signs of water. And that means H2O was

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