The Case of the Missing Dimensions: A Cosmic Mystery 🕵️♂️✨
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
It's time for another BIG and BRILLIANT adventure into the world of science on this week’s Science Quest!
In Science in the News, butterfly numbers across the UK are in decline, bird experts are warning people not to use feeders this summer, and Dr Thomas Clements from the University of Reading explains how a 300-million-year-old fossil, once thought to be an octopus, was misidentified and what it really reveals about life on Earth long ago.
It’s time for your questions too. Owen wants to know what the deadliest animal is, and Neil Lambert from King’s College London tackles a big, mind-bending question from Atlas: why is the world 3D and not 2D?
Dangerous Dan introduces the great grey owl, a silent hunter with incredible senses.
Then we step into the Brain Box with Professor Jonathan Tennyson from University College London to explore exoplanets and discover what lies beyond our Solar System.
Plus, in Galaxy Gala, we head to Deep Space High to learn all about stars and what makes them shine.
What we learn about:
• Why butterfly numbers are falling in the UK
• Why bird feeders might be risky in summer
• A fossil that scientists got wrong
• What the world's deadliest animal is
• The great grey owl
• What exoplanets are and where they exist
All that and more on this week’s Science Quest!
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Meal just got a cosmic boost because the Super Mario Galaxy movie has landed in cinemas and Mario hasn't come alone. |
| 0:08.7 | There's a whole galaxy for your little ones to discover. |
| 0:11.3 | Some fun, some food, it's all inside this Happy Meal. |
| 0:15.5 | Until the 4th of May from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst talks last. |
| 0:19.9 | Hello Explorer. Welcome |
| 0:22.0 | to the greatest search around the solar system and beyond. Let's go discovering. My name's Dan. |
| 0:29.7 | It's time for a new science quest. This is the smartest show in the universe. It's all about |
| 0:36.8 | learning what's out there, discovering |
| 0:38.8 | brand new things and answering your questions. And this week, well, what if the world |
| 0:44.5 | isn't just in the three dimensions that we think it is, but something even stranger? |
| 0:52.1 | So on the surface of the earth, that's a two-dimensional space because basically you can |
| 0:56.2 | travel east or west or north or south. And the world we live in is three-dimensional because |
| 1:00.7 | birds can also go up and down, north and south and east and west. But the physicists, we tend to ask the |
| 1:05.9 | question more, why isn't the world more like 10D or 90 or 11andy? Also, you can hear all about a flying ninja, |
| 1:13.9 | and we're stepping back inside our brain box to explore exoplanets |
| 1:18.4 | and uncover what lies beyond the solar system. |
| 1:22.3 | At the end of your career, what big scientific question would you most love to see answered? |
| 1:28.1 | I cannot believe there aren't other planets out there with some sort of life form on them, |
| 1:32.5 | and it would be lovely to know something about them. So that would be absolutely the icing |
| 1:36.3 | on the cake if we can do that. That's all on the way in a brand new science quest. |
| 1:44.2 | Let's start off with your science in the news, |
| 1:47.3 | and numbers are in from the UK butterfly monitoring scheme. |
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