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🗓️ 17 September 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Why are we friends with people who smell similar to us? Why haven't more animals evolved with trunks? And why is water transparent? All this and more is answered this week! We hear about a failed rocket launch, a terrifying creature in Dangerous Dan, and we have a brand new friend who loves planes and can't wait to chat to you in Amy's Aviation!
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0:00.0 | Hello, welcome along. You've stumbled upon the smartest show in the universe. Well done. |
0:07.2 | It's the world famous fun kid science weekly. My name is Dan. Thank you for being there. |
0:12.6 | This is the part of the week where we roam around the universe hunting out all of those slithers of science secrets that are |
0:20.5 | lurking nearby. Now this week on the show, I warn you, it's a stinker. Yeah, in a good way though. |
0:26.4 | We're talking about smells, your smell, and why you smell sooo interesting. It turns out that your friends with people who smell like you will find out more with Professor Inbal Ravrabi. |
0:41.4 | Actually, we smell ourselves always and we haven't sampled our hands very frequently when the scratching our face a bit or things like that every few minutes. |
0:53.4 | And in addition, when we shake hands, we tend to smell our hands afterwards. |
0:59.4 | And we've got a new series on the show this week. It's Amy's aviation. Amy is our mate and simply she loves flying. |
1:06.4 | She loves looking at how planes take to the sky. Now this week, you can hear all about paper planes. |
1:13.4 | Now crumple the paper into a little ball. Squeeze it as hard as you can and make it as tiny as possible. Now drop it again. |
1:20.4 | Three, two, one. Not much quicker, wasn't it? You can't see the air, but you've just seen the effect it has on things. |
1:28.4 | And I've got your questions as always. This week they are on water and trunks, but not the trunks you wear in water. |
1:35.4 | It's on the way in a brand new, fun kid science weekly. |
1:41.4 | Let's start this week with your science in the news. |
1:48.4 | Now the new shepherd rocket developed by Jeff Bezos, who started Amazon, had to abort a mission mid-flight the other day. |
1:55.4 | It was over Texas and it experienced what appeared to be a propulsion failure, a minute after leaving the ground. |
2:02.4 | Now sometimes the rocket carries people, but thankfully there were none aboard this time. |
2:06.4 | The motor pushed the capsule away, letting it parachute back to earth. Now I think this is brilliant because there have been some awful disasters with rocket take off before. |
2:17.4 | So that they're building in this mechanism that makes things safe, that makes the rocket know when it shouldn't fly anymore, that is brilliant work from Jeff Bezos' team. |
2:28.4 | Also wild chimpanzees have their own drumming style according to scientists. |
2:33.4 | Researchers who have studied them in the rainforests of Uganda have found that the chimps bang out messages as beats on tree roots. |
2:42.4 | They're very individual rhythms and they tell other chimps what's happening, who's where, where they need to go, and this carries over long distances. |
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