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 kick off our bigger and better podcast and we'll put YOUR questions to our team of experts, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn all about what's so amazing about a new-born great white shark! Dan starts with the latest science news, where we learn about a brand new £12 million SUPER collider, a unique species of flying rept...
Feb 10, 2024•29 min•Ep 347•Transcript available on Metacast It's time for another trip around the solar system! This episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly learns all about what we can do to help combat the climate crisis, how televisions work , and a look at a deadly bird from the continent of Africa. Dan starts with the latest science news, talking about how many times around the world that England's hedges would stretch, a national award for the young science writers of the UK, and the latest from Japan's SLIM moon landing mission. Then, science autho...
Feb 03, 2024•25 min•Ep 346•Transcript available on Metacast It's time for another trip around the solar system! This episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly learns all about Japan's SLIM mission to the moon, how aeroplanes really work , and a look at a deadly creature deep down in the ocean. Dan starts with the latest science news, discussing some brand new penguin colonies that've been identified, the Amazon's worst drought in 50 years, and the US mission to the moon that ended up in Flames. Then, the National Space Centre's Dhara Patel tells us all abou...
Jan 27, 2024•22 min•Ep 345•Transcript available on Metacast It's time for another trip around the solar system! This episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly explores the impact of climate change on food, brilliant inventions like LEDs, and a look at a deadly creature. Dan starts with the latest science news, discussing a gigantic ring-shaped structure in space, the discovery of an ancient city in the Amazon, and the world's oldest bit of skin from an amniote. Then, food scientist Maryn McKenna discusses how climate change could alter our diets, with crops...
Jan 20, 2024•23 min•Ep 345•Transcript available on Metacast It's time for another trip around the solar system! In this week's Science Weekly, Dan chats to Dr David Cox about the real possibility we could see medicine replicate the benefits of exercise in the near future? On the podcast this week: Future Exercise Medicine: Dan talks about the possibility of experiencing the benefits of exercise through medicine, particularly for people who are unable to exercise due to disabilities. Researchers are exploring hormones like Iricin, released during exercise...
Jan 13, 2024•22 min•Ep 344•Transcript available on Metacast It's time for another trip around the solar system! In this week's Science Weekly, Dan chats to Dhara Patel, from the National Space Centre, all about what we can expect to see in space in 2024 Dan explains why 2023 was one of the hottest ever on record, why the UK's first space-port will be in the Shetland Islands & answers your questions about why we can a star shining even after it's burnt out? All on this week's episode of Science Weekly! Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/...
Jan 06, 2024•25 min•Ep 343•Transcript available on Metacast It's the end of 2023, and Earth has completed another calendar orbit around the sun. A lot of science has happened in that time! Let us reflect... In this special edition of Science Weekly, Dan revisits conversations with four brilliant guests from 2023. We have Ted Melville about how he got into rocket building, and his team's journey to the World Space modelling Championships! Amy Meek, founder of Kids Against Plastic, tells us all about her mission to look after the environment! Anna Horlesto...
Dec 30, 2023•50 min•Ep 342•Transcript available on Metacast It's time for another trip around the solar system! In this week's Science Weekly, Dan chats to Mike Wooldridge about his Christmas Lecture for the Royal Institution all about AI & what the future holds for humans and robots alike? Dan explains all about last week's meteor shower & answers your questions about will we ever know how stars there are in space? All on this week's episode of Science Weekly! Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudio.com/listener for ...
Dec 25, 2023•27 min•Ep 341•Transcript available on Metacast It's time for another trip around the solar system! In this week's Science Weekly, Dan chats to Ed Turner, from the National Space Centre, all about Beagle 2 and what we've learnt from it 20 years on. Dan explains all about the skull of a seamonster that was found in Dorset & answers your questions about will we ever be able to live on another planet? All on this week's episode of Science Weekly! Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...
Dec 16, 2023•26 min•Ep 340•Transcript available on Metacast It's time for another trip around the solar system! In this week's Science Weekly, Dan chats to Erim Ali, winner of the Lunar Football Kit competition, to explain what went into her designs for the first ever Moon United kit? Dan explains how a school in Sheffield is fighting the battle against pollution & answers your questions about why we cry and why copper wires glow when they get hot? All on this week's episode of Science Weekly! Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See...
Dec 09, 2023•22 min•Ep 339•Transcript available on Metacast It's time for another trip around the solar system! In this week's Science Weekly, Dan chats to Eddie Murray, a Bison Ranger based in Herne Bay about Kent's latest wildlife conservation project Dan explains why an asteroid is coming to the UK, why we could soon be flying with zero emissions & answers your questions about how water affects our body and our senses. All on this week's episode of Science Weekly! Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudio.com/listener fo...
Dec 02, 2023•22 min•Ep 338•Transcript available on Metacast It's time for another trip around the solar system! In this week's Science Weekly, Dan chats to Robert Winston, one of Britain's most famous scientists about his new book The Story of Science Dan explains all about zebra sharks and answers your questions on how mobile phones work? Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Nov 25, 2023•21 min•Ep 337•Transcript available on Metacast It's time for another trip around the solar system! In this week's Science Weekly, Dan chats to Mike Darch fron the National Space Centre about whether we could be closer than ever to finding alien life! Dan explains why the dinosaurs could've roamed our very streets here in the UK and answers your questions on why we can't see Oxygen particles? Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Nov 17, 2023•24 min•Ep 336•Transcript available on Metacast It's time for another trip around the solar system! In this week's Science Weekly, Dan chats to climate expert Emma Reynolds about the science behind climate change and her amazing book, Drawn To Change the World! Dan explains why the number of jellyfish in the UK is increasing and answers your questions on what our planet would be like without all the oceans? Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Nov 10, 2023•25 min•Ep 335•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome aboard, space explorers! In this week's Science Weekly, Dan chats to author Vashti Hardy all about the ways we can be more sustainable for Christmas time with her amazing book, Santa's Marvellous Mechanical Workshop! UK astronauts will be heading back into orbit! Tim Peake went up into space ten years ago, and finally four UK astronauts will be exploring the cosmos! Dan's figured out how light bulbs work and why we breath automatically, and we learn about a sword fighting bird in Dangero...
Nov 04, 2023•23 min•Ep 334•Transcript available on Metacast The skies are calling! It must be time to head into Dan's spaceship and head off into SPACE! We have Dragon's Den star and entrepreneur Deborah Meaden chatting to Dan this week all about the Everyday Engineering Competition. The Royal Academy of Engineering have teamed up with Deborah to find the most brilliant, inventive and sustainable feats of engineering from you and anyone who thinks they've got an amazing idea to make everyday life better! Winners will be voted for on National Engineering ...
Oct 28, 2023•26 min•Ep 333•Transcript available on Metacast How can an army of crustaceans help climate change? Why do leaves change colour in autumn? Technology expert Maggie Philbin is chatting all about Europe Code Week and all the fun ways you can get involved, we hear about how copying and printing works with Techno Mum and how music can help astronauts in Deep Space High! Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 22, 2023•23 min•Ep 332•Transcript available on Metacast We're chatting to actual factual fact expert Radzi Chinyanganya all about his new book, Radzi's Incredible Facts! Radzi is here to chat about some of his favourite facts from the book, including why our brains are so amazing and how old you'll be when you've lived for a billion seconds! Buying a 31.7 birthday cake has never been so difficult... A company has been FINED for leaving rubbish in space, we take a close look at a venomous underwater snake, and your questions are answered - this week, ...
Oct 14, 2023•32 min•Ep 331•Transcript available on Metacast We're boarding our rocket ship to Neptune this week! Professor Patrick Irwin from the University of Oxford is here to chat to Dan all about his research on the dark spots on Neptune. First discovered in the 1980s with new space faring technology, the spots can now be studied from Earth. This is no easy feat - they disappear and reappear all the time. And yet, Patrick and his team have made great strides in solving this science mystery! Dangerous Dan takes us to a terrifying plant in South Americ...
Oct 07, 2023•27 min•Ep 330•Transcript available on Metacast Dan is here once again with his special research rocket ship to take you into the depths of space, and we'll be spending some time with the animals down on Earth too! Conservationist and wildlife expert Lizzie Daly is here this week to tell you how you can make a difference and do your part to help animals. She's talking about the Actions for Animals Guide, a list of 50 simple actions that foster coexistence between animals and people! Samples from the most DANGEROUS rock in the solar system hav...
Sep 28, 2023•26 min•Ep 329•Transcript available on Metacast Put on your scuba gear, we're going below the waves this week to check out some sharks! Eloise is a shark expert who went to the Bahamas with Steve Backshall, to study sharks and their environment for CBBC's Deadly Mission Shark. Sharks have a bad reputation, but do they deserve it? It's important that our animals are safe and protected, and Eloise has some ideas on how we can all help. In science news there's a dinosaur skeleton for sale in Paris, you'll find out how weather forecasts work when...
Sep 23, 2023•27 min•Ep 328•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome, Science Explorer! Ready to get clued up on all the amazing maths, chemistry, physics and general awesomeness that surrounds us this week? Yes? Then let's get into it! Astronomy expert Colin Stuart writes books about some interesting science conundrums, such as how we could live on Mars or travel backwards in time. Dan wants to know how he comes up with such brilliant questions, and how we might go about researching and answering them! Staying close to home for Dangerous Dan, you'll meet...
Sep 16, 2023•28 min•Ep 327•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome aboard the Science Weekly rocket! Dan is your captain and the destination is the far corners of the galaxy! Climate expert Nicola Davies is here to talk about the unique ways in which animals will be affected by climate change. Her new book, Protecting the Planet: The Season of Giraffes, is on the shortlist for this year’s Children's Writing on Nature and Conservation Awards! She's telling Dan all about climate change from a giraffe's point of view, and what we can do to help these beaut...
Sep 09, 2023•28 min•Ep 326•Transcript available on Metacast If you've ever wondered how the universe works, you are not alone. In fact, this is a question humanity has been trying to answer since... forever! One huge science mystery is dark matter. We can tell it's there because of the way light bends around in space, and scientists think it could hold the key to many science secrets. That's why the Euclid Mission is underway to study dark matter in the universe, and Dhara Patel from the National Space Centre is here to tell us all about it! You've been ...
Sep 02, 2023•27 min•Ep 325•Transcript available on Metacast All aboard the rocket ship into space! It's that time of the week where Dan ventures out and finds all the science secrets lurking around the universe. This week, Sophie Harker from the Institution of Engineering and Technology is telling us how we could play football on the moon! There's a lunar rule book full of ways to adapt to the harsh conditions of space, AND if you're 4-13 years old you can design the official Moon United football kit! For your chance to have your design chosen as the win...
Aug 26, 2023•29 min•Ep 324•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome along to your weekly trip around the solar system! Dr Lisa Yon from the University of Nottingham is telling us all about a brand new app being used by elephant enclosures to help their keepers understand how they're feeling and what their health is like. Broken trunk? There's an app for that! In science news, Harrison Ford has yet ANOTHER animal named after him! First an ant and then a snake, Harrison is now the namesake of a new species of snake in Peru. We also set out to answer some o...
Aug 19, 2023•25 min•Ep 323•Transcript available on Metacast We're skipping the rocket this week and heading into the landscapes of Earth to see what creatures we can find! Aneeshwar Kunchala has a new show out Monday 14th August on CBeebies - Steve and Aneeshwar Go Wild ! Find out how Aneeshwar began studying the natural world and what it was like working with legend Steve Backshall on this brand new series! Sticking with weird and wonderful creatures, scientists have discovered an ancient whale MUCH bigger than the blue whale that lived over 39 million ...
Aug 12, 2023•26 min•Ep 322•Transcript available on Metacast Have you heard our series, The Space Programme ? Life on the Isle of Lune is about to get out-of-this-world! It's a radio drama all about a brand new UK spaceport and the story of a soon-to-be child-astronaut. Hear The Space Programme every Friday from 4pm on Fun Kids, the UK's children's radio station, and as a podcast too. Plus, Fun Kids Podcasts+ subscribers get all 20 episodes right now, ad-free! Listen to the whole series before anyone else. Get a 30-day free trial of Fun Kids Podcasts+ by ...
Aug 06, 2023•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Say hi to a butterfly! This week, Dan's chatting to Zoe Randal all about the butterfly count. Each Summer, we are encouraged to look around us, counting these gorgeous insects and checking what type of butterfly they are. From this, butterfly experts can figure out the health of the environment! In science news, orcas are getting rowdy with fishing boats off the coast of Spain - or are they just playing? You've been sending in your questions too, and this week they're on why we get itchy skin an...
Aug 05, 2023•27 min•Ep 321•Transcript available on Metacast What's the link between race car drivers and astronauts? Emma Mosley from the National Space Centre is here to chat all about it! From suits to cameras, missions to space have inspired breakthrough technology in the racing field. Dan reports on some recent science news, such as the human-caused temperature rises in Europe, the Euclid mission to try and figure out how much dark matter is in the universe, and the river Seine in France becoming clean enough to swim in again! Join Fun Kids Podcasts+...
Jul 29, 2023•23 min•Ep 320•Transcript available on Metacast 
