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🗓️ 28 June 2025
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It’s time for another trip around the solar system on the BIGGER and BETTER Science Weekly!
In this episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly, we answer YOUR questions, have scientists battle it out to determine which science is the best, and this week we're learning all about the secret to staying young.
Dan kicks things off with the latest in science news. First up, a surprising discovery — killer whales caught on camera giving each other massages! Then, we zoom out to the cosmos with a powerful new telescope in Chile that's captured some truly breath-taking images of deep space. And finally, Professor Samantha Ward, an expert in zoo animal welfare, joins Dan to explain the big changes coming to zoo standards across the UK.
Then, we answer your questions! Leo wants to know: Why people are allergic to different things and Dr. Jackie Boyd from Nottingham Trent University answers Benji's question: Can animals laugh?
In Dangerous Dan, we learn all about the Cookie Cutter Shark!
In Battle of the Sciences, sports scientist, Daniele Magistro, joins Dan to reveal the secret to staying young.
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What do we learn about?
· What killer whales have been caught doing
· Improvements to UK zoos
· Why people are allergic to things
· Can animals laugh?
· And in Battle of the Sciences, the secret to staying young!
All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!
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0:00.0 | Ahoi, explorer. |
0:02.1 | Welcome along to the grandest adventure of the week. |
0:05.8 | It's time to search the universe for the best secrets in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly. |
0:14.2 | My name's Dan this week. |
0:16.1 | We've got very funny stuff. |
0:17.6 | We know that humans can laugh, but are we it? What about chimps, rats and even dogs? |
0:25.5 | If we thought about maybe a rat laughing and we know that rats can laugh, that would be actually a much more high-pitched sound, something that we wouldn't hear just as we would hear each other laugh, for example. |
0:38.3 | In Dangerous, Dan, we'll dive to the very bottom of the ocean |
0:41.9 | and we'll uncover the secret to staying young. |
0:46.7 | So the secrets of be a good older adult is be a younger active person. |
0:52.9 | So going out, doing sport, be physically active, but also mentally |
0:58.1 | active. It's all the way in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly. Shall we start with your |
1:08.0 | science in the news? All right then, killer whales have been spotted giving each other massages. |
1:14.7 | Using drones, scientists have filmed the creatures in the North Pacific Ocean, |
1:19.1 | using kelp to give each other a scratch. |
1:22.0 | They bite off the kelp, which is like a seaweed shaped in a tube, |
1:25.5 | then they put it on another orca's back, then they roll against each |
1:29.1 | other to massage both of their backs at the same time. Experts think that it may have a health or a |
1:34.0 | hygiene function and that it helps the orcas make friends. Well, they are a type of whale. We know |
1:40.2 | that they are geniuses, so it's not a massive surprise that they socialise and they try |
1:45.4 | and stay clean and relaxed, just like you and me. Also, a powerful new telescope in Chile |
1:51.4 | has unveiled its first pictures showing off how it can peer into the dark depths of the universe. |
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