Fun Kids Science Weekly
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Iceberg as big as London and why do we get wrinkly fingers in water?
A huge iceberg the size of London recently broke off from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica – and it’s exposed a massive seabed that’s been hidden beneath the ice for up to 120,000 years! Dr Katrin Linse is leading a mission next year
A secret Soviet Union experiment and when Britain was buried under ice!
Did you know that 25,000 years ago Britain was buried under miles of ice? We know this by looking at the landscape that the ice carved out and the soils left behind - like mud that formed at the bottom of lakes, that were created when the glaciers me
Guest: Tim Peake - How to become an astronaut & life in space
Major Tim Peake is our guest this week! Tim is a British astronaut who spent six months on board the International Space Station last year - and is only the seventh person from the UK to ever go to space! Tim chats to Dan about the incredible things
Tunnelling under London and what came first - the chicken or the egg?
Crossrail is one of Europe's biggest engineering projects ever, involving 26 miles of tunnels under London. Chris Binns is a chief engineer from the project and tells Dan about immense job of digging right underneath the capital and the challenges they fa
Super cool space-mobiles and supersonic cars!
The Fun Kids Science Weekly has a look at the big story of the week, we may soon be off to space in the wicked new Mars Rover that looks like the Batmobile! We also check in with Technomum, the kids at Deep Space High and find out about dinosaurs too!
Super hot planets and what's snot?
The Fun Kids Science Weekly has a look at the big story of the week, we've found a new planet... and it's pretty hot there! We also check in with our resident scientist Professor Halux, the kids at Deep Space High and more.