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Fun Kids Science Weekly


Latest Episodes

The Deadliest Fart in the Animal Kingdom!
March 19, 2022

Ben Garrod, presenter, biologist and author joins us to chat about the animals that no longer exist and those that are currently endangered this week! Professor Hallux and Nurse Nanabot are back this week too and they have all the information for us about

Spiders Falling From The Sky
March 12, 2022

Dr George McGavin has been all around the world exploring insects and discovering new species - he joins us on this week's podcast. Professor Hallux and Nurse Nanabot are back this week too and they have all the information for us about vaccines and how t

Why Are We Putting Bats in Recording Studios?
March 05, 2022

How does a rocket take off? Honourees of the Blavatnik Awards Anja Schmidt and Sonja Vernes chat to us about their amazing work on volcanos and climate change and what we can learn from putting bats in recording studios! We learn about the eating habits o

How much does the sky weigh?
February 26, 2022

Why can't we see in the dark? How do we make something hotter than the sun? Dr Hannah Willet joins us to tell us about how she is making a reactor 6 times hotter than the sun and what this means for the future of energy. We take to the skies in age of the

Why Are Planets Round?
February 19, 2022

How would aliens communicate with us, and how will we find out if they do?  NASA and SETI scientist Ann Marie Cody joins us to chat more about how she finds signals from other planets, and how an intelligent race might contact us! We dive deep under

We've Found A New Planet That May Have Aliens!
February 12, 2022

Who could our Mission Transmission message reach? And how will we make sure aliens understand our message? Astronomers from the Royal Observatory, Tania de Sales Marques and Patricia Skelton join us this week to answer all of your burning space questions!

What is a Lightyear?
February 05, 2022

Who could our Mission Transmission message reach? And what exactly is a lightyear? Astrophysicist Paul Sutter joins us this week to answer space questions and more! We start 2 new series this week, jump back in time to the home of the Tyrannosaurus Rex an

The Nearest Planet That Could Have ALIENS!
January 29, 2022

Who could our Mission Transmission message reach? And how long does it take to get to the nearest star? Greg Brown, astronomer from the Royal Observatory answers these questions and more about what is closest to us in the universe in this week's Science W

Creating A Message Aliens Can Understand!
January 22, 2022

Creator of the Golden Record, Jon Lomberg joins us in this week's Science Weekly podcast to chat all about how he created a message that aliens could understand, and we hear from Flex at the We Are Curious Museum in Bristol to find out more about what is

How Do We Send A Message Into Space?
January 15, 2022

SpaceSpeak's Peter Beery joins us in this week's Science Weekly podcast to chat all about how he is sending our Mission Transmission message into space and we hear how you can go to space with Mission Transmission! We catch up with Sidney McSprocket who i