SOLAR ECLIPSE: When The Sun Goes Dark๐๐
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids
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๐๏ธ 14 February 2026
โฑ๏ธ 28 minutes
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Summary
We may have a new name but 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, could a mound in North West England contain the remains of Ivar the Boneless, a lost Viking? We also discover why porpoises go quiet when boats pass by, and hear from Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk from UC Irvine about how Greenland sharks can live for hundreds of years.
It’s time for your questions too. Lydia wants to know why ice cracks when you put it in water, and Joe Williams from Exeter University helps answer a huge question from Thomas: what caused the Big Bang?
Dangerous Dan introduces us to the unusual Greeningi Frog, and in Battle of the Sciences, Sam Sedgeman explains the fascinating science behind solar eclipses and why they happen.
Plus, join Marina Ventura on her first Ocean Adventure as she explores the exciting world of ocean research.
From the birth of the Universe to mysterious Viking kings and shadowy solar events, this episode is packed with big questions and brilliant discoveries!
What we learn about:
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How scientists think the Universe began
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What might have caused the Big Bang
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How solar eclipses happen
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Why porpoises change their behaviour around boats
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How Greenland sharks live for so long
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Why ice makes cracking sounds
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The mysterious greeningi frog
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How ocean research helps us explore the seas
All that and more on this week’s Science Quest!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome along, Explorer. |
| 0:01.9 | Don't know about you. |
| 0:02.6 | Bit bored of life down here on planet Earth. |
| 0:04.6 | So shall we leave for just a little bit and search out some of the awesome secrets lurking through the universe? |
| 0:11.4 | It's time for a brand new science quest. |
| 0:15.1 | My name's Dan around here. |
| 0:17.0 | We're on an adventure to seek out so much awesome science hidden away through the solar system |
| 0:23.4 | and beyond. It's creatures, chemistry and just the gorgeous things that have ever existed this |
| 0:30.8 | week. We're travelling back to the dawn of time tackling one of the biggest mysteries around. |
| 0:36.0 | How did the universe start? |
| 0:43.2 | But the one thing that we are quite sure of between all of these hundreds and hundreds of theories is that the universe started at what we call a singularity. It is this extraordinarily infinitely |
| 0:48.8 | dense point in space time where all of the material that was a universe at the time was compacted into. |
| 0:55.6 | Also, we're looking at a frog that uses its head as a weapon, and we'll learn all about |
| 1:02.0 | a jaw-dropping space event that can make it feel like the world is ending. |
| 1:08.5 | It's a bit straight, it's very eerie when in the middle of the day the sky goes dark and all of the birds and the bugs like stop making any noise and the world goes silent and everyone looks up. |
| 1:17.7 | And if you imagine thousands of years ago, people thought this might be the end of the world or like one of their gods punishing them or something like that. |
| 1:24.2 | It's very, very creepy. |
| 1:26.1 | It's all on the way in a brand new science |
| 1:28.4 | quest. It's time for this week's Science in the News. And a mound of earth in the northwest |
| 1:37.6 | of England could contain a lost Viking king. Scientists believe Ivar the boneless or the dragon may be buried in a small hill up in Cumbria. |
| 1:50.4 | Now Ivar founded a Viking dynasty in Dublin, Ireland in the 9th century, then it came over to England, |
| 1:56.9 | and it was merciless, but his grave has never been found. |
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