Why Are We Growing Meat In Space?
Fun Kids Science Weekly
Fun Kids
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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The Urban Birder David Lindo joins us this week to chat all about the secret world of birds, and we learn the difference between a dove and a pigeon! (You'll never guess!)
In Science In The News we find out about how we could be growing meat in space and why?!
We answer your questions, this week we found out why whales blow up when they pass away on the beach?
We also catch up with Professor Hallux and Nurse Nanobot in their Map of Medicine this week its on how different people talk, and in our new Deep Space High Series we learn all about the structure of our earth!
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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 to the smartest show in the solar system. |
| 0:35.7 | This is The Fun Kids Science Weekly. My name's Dan, welcome along. Thank you for being there. |
| 0:41.8 | If you were looking for half an hour or so to speed you all around the universe to learn all the |
| 0:46.7 | science secrets lurking nearby, well you've stumbled across the right podcast. Let me tell you, |
| 0:53.2 | this week we'll chat to a brilliant brainy bird watcher about how you can spot incredible beasts |
| 0:59.2 | in the sky from your own bat garden. So the rock dove is the actual ancestor of the |
| 1:07.6 | street pigeon, which brings about the question, what's the difference between a pigeon and a dove? |
| 1:13.2 | Yes, I saw that in your lips. It was. Also, we'll take a trip to deep space high to look at what |
| 1:19.4 | the earth is made of. So this handful of sand has made up the same lego blocks as on |
| 1:26.0 | mercury and Venus. That's right, I'm Mars too. And I've got your questions this week. They are on |
| 1:34.4 | whales and computer code. That's all on the way. Stay there, a brilliant fun kid science weekly is |
| 1:41.3 | coming to you. Let's kick things off with your science in the news. An experiment has just ended |
| 1:51.4 | on the International Space Station to find out if you can grow meat in space. Now this is important |
| 1:58.6 | because if humans are to live on other planets we need to find food to keep us going. |
| 2:04.0 | And they took some cells from a creature up to the ISS. They fed them things that they would |
| 2:08.8 | need to grow in a lab amino acids and some carbohydrates. And then food is made. Now they tried |
| 2:15.4 | it out last week in space and it worked. So let's see what happened. Also the large Hadron collider |
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