Meet The Blowfish – the world’s only heavy metal marine biologist! He’s on the phone from New Zealand to tell us about The Rock Music Milkshake Mixer – a prototype for a unique, new milkshake blender… that’s powered by an electric guit…

It’s a pretty disgusting episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly! Science presenter and comedian Steve Mould is on the phone sharing some of his favourite science stories and facts. Steve explains why our eyes sometimes twitch and tells us about how fle…

When you think of venom, exotic snakes and giant spiders probably come to mind. But venom is everywhere – in parks, gardens… even in the corners of your house! Ronald Jenner, a venom evolution expert at the Natural History Museum, tells us more about…

Coding has helped humans create robots, build cars that drive themselves and sent rockets into space… but what is coding and how does it all work? Sean McManus, author of Coder Academy, joins Dan in the studio to explain what a coder does and the bas…

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 y…

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…

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 thin…

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…

Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE is a space scientist and the author of ‘Star Finder for Beginners’. Maggie joins Dan in the studio to chat about stars – from what stars actually are to how you can spot incredible constellations by looking at the night sky….

Bats might seem scary but they’re incredible animals – and they play an important role in our environment. Hannah Van Hesteren is an expert from the Bat Conservation Trust and she’s answering all our questions about bats, like are they really blind and…