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Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 16 November 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another trip around the solar system on the BIGGER and BETTER Science Weekly!

This episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly we continue our bigger and better podcast where we answer YOUR questions, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn all about an incredible birth at Edinburgh Zoo.

Dan starts with the latest science news where we learn about the UK's oldest satellite, Skynet-1A, which has unexplainably moved to the other side of the world and Jonny Appleyard from Edinburgh Zoo joins Dan to discuss the incredible birth of a rare baby hippo.

Then we delve into your questions where Dan explains how we see and Lucy Hawkes from the University of Exeter answers Romi's question on do fish drink water.

Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the Dynamite Tree.

The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to Magda Osman from the University of Leeds on why decision sciences is the best kind of science.

What do we learn about?

An incredibly rare birth at Edinburgh Zoo.
Why the UK's oldest satellite suddenly decide to change course.
Why 2024 will be the warmest year on record.
Do fish drink water?
Is decision science the best type of science?

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Bat. I'm one of the wildlifeers from Ranger Ray and the Wildlifers. I just woke up after a short nap to find out some brilliant news. There's a brand new series of six brilliant episodes of Ranger Ray and the Wildlifeers for you to listen to right now.
0:17.8	I understood that, which means you must be Ranger Ray, and they must be the wildlifeers.
0:28.5	Now to wow them with my fabulous flying speed.
0:32.9	Let's go!
0:36.1	Join Ranger Ray, her friend Roxy, and wildlife animals, deer, fox, wildcat, mole, dragonfly, beaver, and me, bat, as we go on some incredible new adventures.
0:47.3	Hey, what's that big thing swing right towards the harbour?
0:53.3	Shark!
0:55.1	We're going to need a bigger island!
0:58.0	Don't worry, everybody.
0:59.2	That's just basking sharp.
1:01.7	Ranger Ray and the Wildlifers is available to listen to now.
1:05.7	Just search for Ranger Ray, that's RAE, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:11.1	Now, I must have another nap.
1:13.6	I'm not lazy.
1:14.9	I'm just nocturnal.
1:17.2	It's Ranger Ray and the World Life First.
1:26.3	All right, Explorer.
1:31.3	It's that part of the week when we get incredibly bored of life down here on planet Earth, so let's see what the other planets are up to. It's a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
1:37.2	My name is Dan. This is the show where we explore all that strange science lurking through the universe. This week, we've got a brilliant
1:48.0	question to answer, which I can't believe I've never thought of before. We'll find out if
1:55.9	fish actually drink water. It's a really interesting question, but if you're a fish, you've got a couple of different problems,
2:03.5	and it depends whether you live in salty water
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