Welcome to Science Quest! 🚀 This week, we are kicking off a massive celebration for Insect Week, hunting down new dinosaur relatives, and tearing open the fabric of space and time to ask if we are living in a multiverse.

• 🐢 The Flat-Pack Hatchling: Keepers are celebrating the arrival of a newly hatched, critically endangered baby pancake tortoise! Discover why this rare reptile’s flat, flexible shell makes it the ultimate rock-climbing escape artist.

• 🦖 A New Predator Rises: Paleontologists have just uncovered a brand-new, razor-clawed cousin of the fierce Velociraptor family! Find out where this ancient hunter lived and how it used its terrifying speed to track down prey.

• 🐜 The Insect Overlords: Fran Sconce from the Royal Entomological Society joins Dan to preview Insect Week! We are shining a spotlight on the absolutely vital, hidden jobs that bugs do every single day to keep our entire planet running.

• 🌋 The Magma Blast: Evan wants to know: why do volcanoes erupt? We dig deep down into the Earth’s crust to look at how trapped tectonic gases and boiling hot liquid rock build up the pressure for a massive explosion.

• 🌌 The Multiverse Mystery: Carlos Frenk from Durham University tackles Jude's mind-bending question: is there another universe out there? Get ready to explore the wild physics behind parallel worlds!

• 🦅 Dangerous Dan: Watch out for the Seriema Bird! Don't let its long legs fool you—this modern-day dinosaur is a vicious snake-hunter that kills its prey by picking it up and ruthlessly smashing it against rocks.

• 🧠 Brain Box: Professor Susannah Maidment, Merit Researcher in Fossil Reptiles at the Natural History Museum, steps into the Brain Box to show us exactly what the prehistoric world looked like when dinosaurs ruled the Earth!

And jump straight through a wormhole to Deep Space High—your local inter-galactic school in space! Join Principal Pulsar and his class as they discover how exploring the cosmos actually changes your everyday life on Earth. From the scratch-resistant lenses in your glasses to the cameras in your smartphone, find out about all the awesome, everyday gadgets that wouldn’t even exist if it wasn’t for rocket scientists and space travel!

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This Week’s Big Questions!

You’ve been sending in your brilliantly curious questions, and this week…

☁️ Why do clouds move so slowly?
☀️ What is the Sun made of?
🩹 Why do we heal differently?
👨‍🚀🌌 How long could humans survive in space without a spacesuit?
📷 How do cameras work?
🐦🌳 How do woodpeckers make holes in trees?

And jump through a worm hole to Deep Space High, your local inter-galactic school in space. The class are heading down to the space lab to check out an exciting satellite that will be exploring the Sun!

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Welcome to Science Quest! 🚀 This week, we are counting down to an epic return to the Moon, heading inside a high-stakes space station emergency, and diving straight into the slimiest, creepiest, most brilliant secrets of the animal kingdom.

• 🌕 The Next Moon Crew: NASA has officially unveiled the four-man astronaut crew for the historic Artemis III mission! Find out who is leading the flight and how they are preparing to test out the next generation of lunar landers.

• 🛠️ Space Station SOS: Matt Cook from the UK Space Agency joins us to break down the dramatic, high-stakes emergency repairs happening aboard the International Space Station this week. Find out how astronauts fix massive technical glitches while floating in zero gravity!

• 🪶 Birdwatch Blockbuster: A tiny seaside town has been completely taken over by hundreds of "twitchers" (birdwatchers) who have rushed from all over the UK to spot an incredibly rare, out-of-bounds heron!

• 🦭 Deep-Sea Armor: Luke asks a mind-boggling question: how can deep-sea creatures live at the very bottom of the ocean without getting instantly crushed by the immense weight of the water?

• 🐌 The Slime Factory: Chris Holland from Sheffield University answers Joshua’s question: how exactly do snails manufacture their thick, sticky slime? Get ready for a gross but fascinating dive into molecular engineering!

• 🪰 Dangerous Dan: Keep your eyes peeled for the horrific New World Screwworm Fly. This tiny parasite might look ordinary, but its larvae are aggressive meat-eaters that can cause catastrophic damage to animals from the inside out.

• 🧠 Brain Box: Professor of Behavioral Ecology Seirian Sumner steps into the Brain Box to decode the mind-blowing, brilliant social networks of the insect world.

And shrink down to the size of a pebble and dive straight into the microscopic world of insect behavior with explorer Marina Ventura! This week, Marina is looking at the incredible, highly organized world of ants. Discover how thousands of tiny insects work together like one giant, single super-brain to build massive underground fortresses, defeat predators, and share food without a single argument!

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