SHAPING EARTH: Exploring the Secrets of Geomorphology🌎

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 18 May 2024

⏱️ 30 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 put YOUR questions to our team of experts, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn all about some scientists in Wales experimenting making healthier bread

Dan starts with the latest science news, where we learn the dark secrets behind the Darna Squid, why residents in Kent STILL can't swim in the sea and Dr Catherine Howarth from the University of Aberystwyth tells us all about her project to help grow healthier white bread.

Then we delve into your questions where Dan answers Claire's question on why our hair turns grey and we pose Arun's question on why uranium is so dangerous to Professor Tom Scott from the University of Bristol.

Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the Shoebill Stork found in the swamps of Africa.

The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to David Thomas from the University of Oxford about why geomorphology is the best kind of science

What do we learn about?

- The dark secrets of the Darna Squid

- Why Kent residents can't swim in the ocean

- How Welsh scientists are making bread healthier

- What makes Uranium so dangerous?

- Is Geomorphology the best type of science?

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Welcome along Explorer, back for another week of searching through the solar system.
0:06.0	My name is Dan and we are determined to discover all of those science
0:14.2	secretes that maybe have just been lost through billions of years. This is the Fun Kids
0:17.3	Science Weekly.
0:19.2	And this week we will look at one of the most dangerous elements on the planet.
0:25.0	Uranium is a naturally forming element that we have in the crust of the Earth, for example,
0:32.0	and we mine that uranium and from it we can make nuclear
0:36.7	fuel that we use in power stations to generate electricity to keep our lights on.
0:47.3	Also in our quest to find the greatest science ever, you can hear from one of the UK's most notable geographers all about geomorphology, which sounds amazing.
0:51.6	What I do is even better than just geomorphology.
0:56.0	I actually work on the geomorphology of deserts.
0:59.0	So I get the privilege of going to beautiful other parts of the world beyond Oxford to study
1:06.7	sand dunes, how they formed.
1:11.0	And this week's dangerous Ann is one of the scariest looking things in the sky.
1:16.0	It's all on the way in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly. Let's kick things off with your science in the news then.
1:27.0	Scientists have filmed a rare squid in full attack mode for one of the only times.
1:32.0	It's the daras squid. It lies
1:34.8	1,000 meters below the ocean's surface. It's almost pitch black down there but this
1:40.0	squid has a way to get around that. Experts have discovered that it shines a bright
1:44.7	light before it goes in for the kill. This is bioluminescence, which means they use chemicals
1:50.9	in their body to react with the oxygen around them to make light.
1:56.4	And it's almost got headlights on its arms.
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