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Fun Kids Science Weekly

Why do sea birds fly TOWARDS a storm?!

Fun Kids Science Weekly

Fun Kids

Education For Kids, Kids & Family, Science

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly, Dan talks to bird expert Emily Shepard from the University of Swansea to find out more about how our airborne friends stay safe during extreme weather conditions!

In Science in the News we discover that rats know how to boogie, and Dan answers your most burning questions - what makes up the veggies we eat, anyway? Amy from Amy's Aviation talks space travel, and Curious Kate gives us an insight in light! Find that out and more in this week's show!

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0:00.0

Well hello and welcome to a quick trip around the universe will search out some science secrets

0:07.4

This is the fun kid science weekly

0:11.7

My name's Dan and this is the only podcast in the universe that explores the whole of the universe and

0:16.6

Uncubbers all the gyms that are lurking nearby

0:20.3

This week we'll talk about what birds do when they sense a storm do they fly through it

0:27.2

Do they fly around it? Sometimes they know that it's coming before we do

0:40.9

That is with the expert Emily Sheppard you can hear from more of her in a little bit

0:45.2

Also we're back with Amy's aviation. She is our airplane genius this week. She'll take us to space

0:52.1

with planes

0:53.9

Plains that can fly in the air and through gravity. How does that work?

0:59.6

There's an exciting new type of spacecraft to take space tourists up and up and away on sub orbital flights to heights around

1:07.4

100 kilometers above sea level

1:10.1

And I've got your questions to answer as always this week. They are on the fruit and veg what makes them and

1:16.4

How does your brain tell you what to do? We'll find that out in a brand new fun kid science weekly

1:24.2

Let's start off with this week's science in the news

1:29.1

The world is getting darker which is a strange effect of climate change

1:34.7

Experts have measured the planets shine by looking at the light reflected from Earth onto the moon

1:41.4

So this is sunlight that travels from the sun takes like eight minutes

1:45.3

It hits our planet and then it goes to the moon and it lights up some of that and they can find out

1:49.8

How much we're shining and they've discovered that it's actually getting less

1:53.9

Studies suggest that the amount of low cloud over oceans is reducing because the seas are getting warmer and

2:00.9

These clouds act like a mirror at reflecting the sun's light and if there's not many of them around

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