Matt Deegan

Keeping Cool with SNOT BUBBLES and a Big NASA Update!

This week Dan is chatting to Anna Horleston, Planetary Seismologist all about the recent information from NASA’s InSight Mars Mission – which will help us figure out just what Mars is made of! We also find out the gross way that Echidnas keep cool in A…

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Fun Kids Launches Subscription Service

Fun Kids launches podcast subscription service Fun Kids Podcasts+ Fun Kids, the UK’s national children’s radio station and podcast network, has launched a podcast subscription service that brings together 33 of its popular titles. Fun Kids is one of the world’s biggest providers of children’s podcasts with popular weekly titles like the Fun Kids Science…

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How to bring back extinct animals… and FART SCIENCE!!!

This week Dan is chatting to natural world expert and science advisor to Beano, Helen Pilcher! Are scientists trying to bring back woolly mammoths?! How are they going about this? Helen tackles this and other prolific scientific mysteries, such as… t…

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How do dogs know what we’re feeling?

Happy New Year, it’s a brand new episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly! We’ve got tons of cool science to kick off 2023. This week, Dan chats to animal expert Clara Wilson on how dogs can tell when we’re stressed, and where this research could lead in…

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Science Weekly 2022: The BEST Science of the Year!

It’s the end of 2022, 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 20…

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What makes you want to dance?

Ho to the power of three, it’s a Christmas Eve episode of Science Weekly! This week Dan chats to neuroscientist Daniel Cameron about what makes us move… can a rhythm inspire a dance? How about low frequencies? And why is dancing something human being…

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The most distant galaxy EVER SEEN!

Science in the News kicks off this week’s episode with a report on NASA’s unmanned Orion capsule launch! Find out when NASA will put human beings back into space… and the James Webb space telescope found GL-z13, the most far away galaxy we’ve ever di…

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Bones, Kilonovas, and a bit of Santa too!

In this week’s episode, Dan chats to Professor Dame Sue Black about what it means to study the human body. Is science a way to solve mysteries? Listen to what an expert thinks! 
In Science in the News, Virgin Orbit launches soon in the UK, planning on…

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Chimpanzees walk in sync?!

Guess what? It’s time for another week’s Fun Kids Science Weekly! In this episode, Dan talks to Dr Manon Schweinfurth about her research on chimpanzees and how, like us human beings, they naturally match each other’s walking pace! 
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What could an eco-friendly Earth look like?

This week in Science Weekly, Dan talks to Planetari founder Cindy Forde about climate change and the future of an eco-friendly Earth. Her new book, Bright New World, outlines some of the creative ways we can help the planet! 
In Science in the News, w…

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