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...

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.

What's the furthest distance ever run without stopping? Which language has the most words? How many times do we blink each day, year, or in an entire lifetime? How deep is the deepest hole that's ever been dug? In this exclusive episode Radzi shares his INCREDIBLE facts to make you the smartest kid around! Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Welcome space explorers to a BONUS trip around the solar system to answer your burning science questions! Why does our hair turn grey? Why do people hate certain foods? And what really is the rarest star in the galaxy?    Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Yes you heard us! This slime is so deadly it can even kill... We find out how archaeologists dig up their treasures with expert Letty Ingray, in the news we hear about how these extreme temperatures will soon be normal. We take a trip to space to hear more about the weather across the solar system, and how exactly money works with Techno Mum. And as always we will be answering your questions, this week its what is sleep paralysis - and why do sharks have so many teeth?  Join Fun Kids...

This week, you and Dan are setting sail to take a closer look at what's in the sea! Amy Meek, returning guest of the podcast and founder of Kids Against Plastic, tells us all about her mission to look after the environment and what inspired her to start this incredible initiative. You've been asking away, and Dan has some answers - why does ice sometimes make a cracking noise when you put it in water, and how DO we see? Once we've learnt about what not to put in the ocean, we discover a...

Welcome aboard your journey around the solar system! We've got an ocean expert on this week. Loren Hiller from the Marine Stewardship Council is chatting to Dan all about the effects we have on our oceans and why it's so important to take good care of them!  Moving up into the stars, scientists have used black holes to look at the early universe. They've observed some pretty cool stuff - it turns out time used to be five times slower in the first billion years of the universe!  You'll be...

Happy Saturday! Dan's here to tell you everything that's going on in the world of science. Carlos Frenk is here to tell you all about the wonderful science activities going on next week for the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, including a chance to conduct your own experiments! Carlos is an astronomer, so Dan also found out some of the biggest unanswered questions of the universe that he'd like to answer... In science news, white spots might help monarch butterflies migrate and an...

It's a Saturday, and you know what that means! You're here to whizz around the solar system with Dan, and soon you could be in a reusable spacecraft! Our guest on the Science Weekly podcast this week is space expert Catherine Muller from the National Space Centre, here to chat all about the new Boeing Starliner! Hear about its development, what NASA plans to do with it, and what the future holds for climate friendly space travel.  You wanted to know why you sneeze when you look at the sun...

Usually Dan is the one chatting about rockets and jetting off around the solar system, but this week we have a very special guest on the podcast to chat about rocketry! Ted Melville is here to talk about how he got into rocket building, and his team's journey to the World Spacemodeling Championships in Austin, Texas! Along with Charlie and Wilfred, these three teens from the East Anglian Rocketry Society will fly over to the US to compete in a host of rocket builds.  Dan's answering your...

Welcome to your weekly guide to all things science! Dan is focusing on planet Earth in this week's episode, with young UN representative Moksha Roy who tells us all about her work with the UN, how countries can achieve their own eco-friendly goals, and how you at home can help make a difference!  Also to come, a butterfly has seemingly come back from extinction and one of Saturn's moons is gushing out a HUUUGE jet of water!  Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See...

A very hungry bear ransacked a cupcake shop in this weeks Science in the News - and its a very BUG themed episode with a beautiful yet DEADLY moth being the centre of Dangerous Dan, AND we speak to Daniel Clark from the Story Museum who is creating a brand new exhibit on climate change and... ANTS! We answer your science questions, such as why is the centre of the earth hot- and head to space with the team from Deep Space High! Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See...