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Hello, welcome to a brand new episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly then.

So if you love amazing, weird and dangerous stuff from all around the universe, this is the only place that you need to stop by.

My name is Dan.

Hello, I am your friend in fascination, I guess.

Today we're chatting to an expert in coughs, sneezes and all the diseases.

And he's going to tell us why they're fighting back.

Also, we'll head into space to see what happens when you try and open a fizzy drink up there,

or down there, I guess, depending on where you are in the world.

And in this week's Dangerous Dan, we're talking about a place in Asia that's being invaded by a desert.

First, let's catch up with our favourite genius on the Fun Kid Science Weekly. It's Professor

Hallex. Today, he's having a look inside your body.

Hallex is Physiology Fix-Up.

Finally, you're putting up those shelves we need? No, making some improvements to this skeleton.

Really? What's wrong with skeletons the way they are?

I can't believe no one's thought of it before. Look at it! All those white, lumpy bones.

Skinny and knobbly and white? Like my granddad on the beach.

So what precisely are you proposing?

This.

A titanium skeletal structure with carbon fibre interlocking joints.

I've called it the turbo, Titan, Skeletron optic 5,000,

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