TINY TEETH, BIG QUESTIONS: Why Do We Have Baby Teeth🦷❓

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 21 September 2024

⏱️ 30 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 answer YOUR questions, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn all about an explorer who's taking a school on a trip to the arctic.

Dan starts with the latest science news where we learn all about the 'Supermoon' that lit up our skies this week, SpaceX's Polaris Dawn returning to earth after 5 days in orbit and Explorer Mark Wood tells us all about how he organised a school trip all the way to the arctic.

Then we delve into your questions where Dan explains how snake's digest food & Hannah Walsh from The British Society of Paediatric Dentistry answers why we're not born with adult teeth.

Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the Carnotaurus

The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to Michael Berthaume from Kings College London about why the Biological Anthropology is the best kind of science?

What do we learn about?

The 'Supermoon'
A school trip to the arctic
Why we're not born with adult teeth?
Is Biological Anthropology the best type of science?

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Hello Explorer, it's time to stop what you're doing, because we're leaving Planet Earth for a bit if that's all right, it's a brand new fun kids science weekly.
0:12.0	My name is Dan, this is where we explore the universe and we discover all of those
0:16.2	strange science secrets that no one has ever told you before. I will change that.
0:21.6	This week we'll learn why we're born with different teeth than we grow up with.
0:27.0	Lots of people might say just because they're baby teeth they don't really matter so much because the important ones are their adult ones but your
0:33.6	baby teeth are really important in holding the space in your mouth to help guide the adult
0:38.8	tooth through into the right place.
0:42.1	That's Dr. Hannah Walsh.
0:44.0	She knows everything about what's in your mouth.
0:46.0	She'll be on in a little bit.
0:48.0	Also, we'll hear how fossils help us understand where we've come from.
0:52.0	As much as bioanthropology is about the past, it's also about today.
0:57.0	We have used it to understand, for example, how nutrition affects how children grow
1:02.0	and about how that affects how they become as an adult.
1:05.0	And we're heading back 70 million years to learn about one of the most devastating looking creatures from the late Cretaceous
1:14.6	period in our dangerous down it's all on the way in a brand new fun kids science
1:18.8	weekly.
1:20.8	Let's kick things off with your science in the news. A supermoon lit up the
1:28.4	sky this week across the world which coincided with a rare partial lunar eclipse. It was pretty spectacular to see.
1:36.8	The moon was brighter and bigger on Tuesday night.
1:40.5	Super moons happen when the moon is at its closest point to the Earth in its orbit.
1:44.1	It also happened at the same time as a rare partial lunar eclipse,
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