What is a Lightyear?
Fun Kids Science Weekly
Fun Kids
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🗓️ 5 February 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Who could our Mission Transmission message reach? And what exactly is a lightyear? Astrophysicist Paul Sutter joins us this week to answer space questions and more! We start 2 new series this week, jump back in time to the home of the Tyrannosaurus Rex and we catch up with Professor Hallux who takes us through some of the amazing medical professionals that help save lives! The dangerous Blister Beetle is the subject of this weeks Dangerous Dan and in Plus in Science in the News, we hear exactly what is going on this week in the world of Science!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. I'm Cressida Cowell, author of How to Train Your Dragon, and I'm just popping |
| 0:04.4 | in to tell you about my new book series, Witchway to Anywhere. It's a story about four children |
| 0:10.0 | who discover that there are alternative worlds beyond our own, and that they can travel to them |
| 0:15.3 | with the help of a magical map and a very special gift. Of course, this leads to epic, unexpected |
| 0:21.9 | adventures. Witchway to Anywhere, and its sequel, Witchway Round the Galaxy, are both available |
| 0:27.5 | to buy now. Happy reading! Hello, welcome along. It's a brand new episode of The Fun Kids Science |
| 0:34.7 | Weekly. My name is Dan. Thank you for being there. You've stumbled upon the smartest show in the |
| 0:41.9 | history of the universe, and it's been around a long time. Show you how clever this thing really is. |
| 0:49.2 | It's a busy one for you this week. We'll head back to the Cretaceous period and the age of the |
| 0:54.5 | dinosaurs to look at the devastating terrifying T-Rex. Quick, another T-Rex is coming. That's not a T-Rex, |
| 1:04.7 | but it's still good to hide. Also, you can find out what a light year actually is, with the astrophysicist |
| 1:13.3 | Paul Sutter. A light year is the distance that light can travel in one year. And I've got your |
| 1:23.0 | questions to answer as always. This week, they are on sleep and hearing things. Also, |
| 1:29.3 | how fish go to the toilet, and we'll talk touch screens. It's all on the way and loads more on |
| 1:34.9 | this week's Fun Kids Science Weekly. Cooking things off this week with your science in the news. |
| 1:43.3 | Scientists are trialing a life-saving vaccine for elephants. Now sadly, there's a deadly disease |
| 1:49.7 | sweeping through elephants at the moment. And by the time it's spotted, it's normally too late. |
| 1:54.4 | It's called EEHV, but for the first time ever, experts are seeing if a vaccine for these |
| 1:59.7 | elephants can stop them catching the disease. Also, climate change is causing plants in the UK |
| 2:05.6 | to make their flowers a month earlier than normal. Leaves fell in autumn, a month later, |
| 2:11.7 | last year than normal, because of warmer summers. And warming weather means flowers are popping up |
| 2:16.8 | even earlier, and this may hugely affect birds and insects who come to rely on them for food at |
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