THE COLOURFUL SECRETS OF FLOWERS: The Science Behind Nature's Colours 🌹🌈

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 11 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

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

In 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 why flowers are so colourful!

Dan starts with the latest science news, where we discover what made more electricity than ever last year, uncover the largest dinosaur footprint ever found in the UK, and Dr. Martin Cheek from Kew Gardens joins Dan to explain the new species discovered in 2024!

We then answer your questions, Arthur wants to know if humans will ever run out of water and Beverley Glover from the University of Cambridge explains why flowers have colour.

Dangerous Dan continues, and we learn all about Annapurna, a mountain in Nepal that stands at over 8,000m!

And Battle of the Sciences is all about astrophysics as Anna Puglisi explains the secrets of the universe.

What do we learn about?

· What made more electricity than ever last year?

· Will humans ever run out of water?

· Why flowers have colour

· One of the world’s deadliest mountains

· And the secrets of the universe in Battle of the Sciences

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	We want to know what your favourite planet is.
0:05.7	Fun Kids. Royal Observatory Greenwich.
0:08.0	Young astronomer. Enter now at funkidslive.com slash y a.
0:13.3	Funcidslive.com slash y a.
0:22.9	It's a brand new year.
0:23.9	2025.
0:29.0	Turns out there's still loads more of the universe to explore.
0:30.0	Let's get to it.
0:31.8	It's a brand new Fun Kid Science Weekly.
0:34.6	My name's Dan.
0:35.4	Welcome along.
0:36.7	Thank you for being there. And joining me on this adventure to uncover the mysteries of the galaxy.
0:42.5	We are searching out the real science secrets lurking around the solar system.
0:47.6	So much on the podcast this week.
0:49.8	We always answer the questions that you send in as a voice note on the free fun kids app.
0:54.3	This week, we're discovering why flowers can be so colourful.
0:58.8	Flowers are a plant's way of attracting animals to carry their pollen around for them to help them set seed.
1:04.6	And they need to stand out against the background.
1:06.5	And the background is basically green.
1:08.3	So all those different colours are a good way of standing out against a green background. And in our quest to find the greatest science in the history of the
1:16.6	mall, we will solve the science of space. So we know that galaxies to build and become big, they
1:25.1	need to form stars. And we know that that, for example, in our own galaxies has been happening,
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