RETURN OF THE SEA TUTRLES: But Scientists Are Worried... 🐢📈
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids
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🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
It's still time for another BIG and BRILLIANT adventure into the world of science on this week’s Science Quest!
In Science in the News, NASA is rethinking its plans for landing astronauts on the Moon, scientists believe the history of writing might be thousands of years older than we once thought, and Frederick Wilkinson from Queen Mary University of London explains why a recent boom in sea turtle numbers might not be quite as good news as it sounds.
It’s time for your questions too. Akiva wants to know why your tummy gets smaller when you breathe in, and John Bridges from Leicester University answers Nicolas' question: How are asteroids made?
Dangerous Dan introduces us to something a little different this week: the super-Earth exoplanet TOI-1452b, a strange and fascinating world far beyond our Solar System.
Then in Battle of the Sciences, Mark Grabowski from Liverpool John Moores University steps into the ring to make the case for palaeoanthropology, the science that studies ancient humans and our evolutionary ancestors.
Plus, Harry and Terry stumble across the asteroid belt in this week’s Space Cadets adventure as they continue their accidental journey through space.
What do we learn about?
- How asteroids form in space
- Why NASA is changing its plans for Moon missions
- Why the history of writing might be older than we thought
- Why a sea turtle population boom may not be entirely good news
- What happens to your body when you breathe in
- The strange super-Earth exoplanet TOI-1452b
- How scientists study ancient humans and our ancestors
All that and more on this week’s Science Quest!
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| 0:00.0 | Creola has landed on Planet Happy Meal. |
| 0:02.1 | So explore your little astronaut's imagination and see where their creativity takes them. |
| 0:06.6 | From colouring to creating, the sky's the limit. |
| 0:09.4 | So reach for the stars. |
| 0:10.7 | Some fun, some food. |
| 0:12.0 | It's all inside this Happy Meal. |
| 0:14.7 | Until 23rd of March from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy, |
| 0:17.7 | whilst Crayola range comprises toys only, whilst dogs last. |
| 0:19.9 | All right, explorer, it's time to escape little old planet Earth for just a while. |
| 0:24.7 | We'll see what's happening around the universe, shall we? |
| 0:28.2 | It's a brand new science quest. |
| 0:31.3 | My name's Dan around here. |
| 0:32.9 | We uncover all those science secrets lurking through space. |
| 0:37.0 | We see what's happening where it is. If it's true, if it's not, we answer your questions. |
| 0:42.1 | My name's Dan, thank you so much for being there. |
| 0:45.0 | This week, we're travelling back to the birth of our solar system to uncover how asteroids are made. |
| 0:52.5 | Well, they were made at the very beginnings of the solar system, which is an |
| 0:58.2 | incredibly long time ago, 4.6 billion years ago. And we'll stay up there to take a look at a planet |
| 1:05.6 | made completely of an ocean and we're exploring how our ancient ancestors lived and evolved to become like us as we |
| 1:14.4 | tackle one of the biggest questions. What makes us human? What you have to understand is that our |
| 1:21.1 | bodies and minds are the result of a series of changes that took place over a huge amount of time. |
| 1:26.1 | So we evolved or changed from earlier groups |
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