VIKINGS UNCOVERED: Exploring their British roots🪓

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 13 April 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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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, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn all about an Viking artefacts discovered in Ipswich, England.

Dan starts with the latest science news, where we learn the solar eclipse which left many North Americans in darkness, an extremely rare animal spotted in the Australian Outback and Archaeologist Ian Riddler joins us to talk all about the Viking combs, yes COMBS, discovered in Ipswich, Suffolk.

Then we delve into your questions where Dan explains how cameras work and we pose Cassidy's question on why we blow our nose to Laurie Dove from How Stuff Works

Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the Iriomote Cat from the small Japanese Island why it's so rare and dangerous.

The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to Dr Sara Goodacre from University of Nottingham all about Arachnology! Then we pay a visit to Bene and Mal as they let us know why humans get colds?

What do we learn about?

- The North American Solar Eclipse

- An extremely rare mole discovered in Australia

- What Vikings were doing in Ipswich, England?

- Why we blow our nose?

- Why the study of spiders is the best type of science?

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	All right then it's that time of the week explorer when we leave planet Earth just through a little bit and we search the solar system to seek out some science secrets.
0:17.0	My name's Dan. Welcome to a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly. Thank you so much for being there. Now this week we will look
0:21.9	at what really is a bit gross actually we'll look at what really happens when you are
0:27.6	Snoddy you're sniffling and you need to get it all out what's happening in your sinuses.
0:35.0	It is trying to help you and it may not feel like it especially if you have a cold and
0:40.7	your nose gets really sore or you have allergies and kind of this
0:44.3	nasal drip situation going on but really it is your body trying to help you and
0:50.7	in our ongoing quest to discover the best science of them all, it's a big question,
0:58.0	we'll hear why studying spiders should come top.
1:05.0	they are super smart, they have super skills.
1:08.0	I study spiders from something though that you can't see.
1:11.0	I study their DNA. I study the DNA that makes up a
1:15.1	spider that lets it do what it does. Did you know that they can throw silk and
1:19.1	lassoos? Did you know that they can use their silk on water as a rudder?
1:25.4	And you can join me on a tiny Japanese island to find one of the most elusive cats in the world.
1:32.3	It's all in a brand new fun kid science weekly.
1:34.7	And we'll start it off this week with our science in the news and millions of
1:46.2	people across North America looked at the skies a few days ago to see a total
1:51.2	solar eclipse that plunged parts of the continent into
1:54.9	complete darkness. Now total solar eclipses happen once every year and a half, but
2:00.8	often in very remote areas, so to be able to see this across North America
2:05.0	was a hugely big deal. It stretched across North America, parts of Mexico and Canada, the
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