THE ENERGY REVOLUTION: The Science Museum's Latest Adventure⚡
Fun Kids Science Weekly
Fun Kids
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🗓️ 6 April 2024
⏱️ 27 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, find out about one of the world's rarest animals & learn all about how proto stars evolve!
Dan starts with the latest science news, where we learn about why sewage spilling into UK rivers is at an all time high, SpaceX making big progress after their third test flight and Curator Oliver Carpenter from the Science Museum joins us to talk all about their brand new gallery 'Energy Revolution: The Adani Green Energy Gallery'
Then we delve into your questions where Dan explains why yawns are contagious and we pose Dani's question on how proto stars turn into stars to Dhara Patel from the National Space Centre
Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about 'The Asian Unicorn' also known as a Saola
We pay a visit to expert on all things space Professor Pulsar and he’s here to tell us what causes a shooting star and why they twinkle!
What do we learn about?
- Why sewage is spilling into our rivers more than ever before
- SpaceX's latest test flight
- The Science Museum's newest gallery
- What is a Proto Star?
All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Explorer. |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome along to the club, we're going on an adventure to try and search out the secrets |
| 0:07.0 | laying around the solar system. |
| 0:09.0 | It's a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly. |
| 0:16.0 | My name is Dan. Thank you so much for being there. |
| 0:17.0 | This is the only place where we discover all the science that no one else bothers about. |
| 0:24.3 | We learn what's really out there. |
| 0:26.6 | This week you can hear all about a brand new gallery that's at a museum. |
| 0:30.8 | It's filled with loads of hands-on stuff to explain energy and how it's |
| 0:35.1 | changing in the future. We're showing some of these technologies from solar |
| 0:40.6 | panels to a big wind farm generators and the exciting thing for me I think is to get |
| 0:47.0 | up close and personal to some of these technologies and see them for yourself and appreciate that those |
| 0:52.0 | can help us in our future to be more responsible |
| 0:55.6 | on this planet. |
| 0:58.4 | Also I've got some of your questions to answer and this week one will take us into space to take a look at baby stars. |
| 1:07.0 | Pusion of hydrogen into helium and that's the point that it becomes a star. |
| 1:12.0 | So essentially a protost it becomes a star. So essentially a proto-star becomes a star |
| 1:15.8 | when it's gathered enough mass |
| 1:17.6 | and when that core gets to 10 million degrees. |
| 1:20.4 | And we will hear about one of the rarest animals on the planet. |
| 1:27.6 | It's a creature that's not really been spotted for 10 years. It's all coming up in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly. |
| 1:37.0 | Let's kick things off with your science in the news. |
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