REAL-LIFE HOGWARTS: Scientists Create a Harry Potter-Style Bag🪄🧙‍♂️

Fun Kids Science Weekly

Fun Kids

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🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Get ready for another amazing journey through the world of science with Dan on the Fun Kids Science Weekly!

This week, we’re answering your burning questions, digging into the science that shapes our planet, and uncovering some seriously strange discoveries from around the world.

In Science in the News, we learn why scientists in the UK are trying to turn part of a desert in Northern India green, mosquitoes have been spotted in Iceland for the very first time, and Dan explores the Nobel Prize-winning chemistry discovery that’s being compared to a real-life version of Harry Potter’s enchanted bag!

We’ll also be tackling your questions — 'PodcastGuy14' (not his real name) wants to know why some ticks have Lyme disease, and Ben Rowson from Museum Wales reveals the incredible science behind how snails make their shells!

Then, Dangerous Dan is back with a creature that’ll make you squirm — the African eye worm!

And in Battle of the Sciences, Dan travels back in time with archaeologist Lucy Shipley to uncover how the secrets of the past are being brought to light.

Plus, in Kitchen Chemistry, we discover the secret behind non-stick frying pans — and what makes Teflon so special!

What do we learn about?
· Snail shells, Lyme disease, and creepy crawlies
· Deserts turning green and mosquitoes in icy places
· Magical chemistry, ancient archaeology, and the African eye worm

All that and more on this week’s Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	All right, Explorer, it's that part of the week when we get done, bored over with life on planet Earth,
0:08.0	and we head out through the universe.
0:10.4	Let's see what's going on way out there.
0:13.5	It's a brand new fun kid science weekly.
0:16.5	My name's Dan, and this is the podcast that searches through the solar system. We will discover
0:22.6	all that incredible science and then loads more this week. We'll find out how a snail builds
0:30.8	its shell, because the answer is hiding in every twist and curve.
0:40.0	Newborn snails are always adorable.
0:42.2	They're really cute because they have nice big eyes and a little big face compared to the adults,
0:44.7	and they have a very tiny shell.
0:46.2	And they have that from when they're inside an egg,
0:48.0	so they hatch out of an egg,
0:48.8	and they've already got a tiny little shell.
0:51.5	And grab your shovel with time travelling back
0:53.9	to uncover secrets from the past in Battle of
0:56.9	the Sciences.
0:59.9	Where are all the dead people in the Iron Age?
1:02.4	So Iron Age, before the Roman conquest, it's a big, lovely period of prehistory.
1:06.6	We don't have anything written down.
1:08.1	We have some Roman sources about occasional strange practices that people might have done. But what we don't have anything written down. We have some Roman sources about occasional strange practices
1:11.4	that people might have done. But what we don't have is a clear idea of what people were doing
1:16.6	with their dead. Also, do you remember a couple of weeks ago, we heard about a Nobel Prize winning
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