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Alright then, Explorer. How you

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doing? How you feeling? How

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bored are you with planet

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Earth this week? What say

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we leave our home

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and go in search of some

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science secrets around the galaxy? It's

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a brand new Fun Kids Science

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Weekly. My

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name is Dan and this week we

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will learn all about one of the

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most genius bits of invention ever. Airplanes.

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It's getting into summer around the

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UK. You might be going on

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holidays soon. How on earth do

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those massive things manage to

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take off and how do they stay in the sky?

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We'll find out. It's

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like a Batman Robin double act going

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on between the engines and the wings.

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The engines move a plane forward by

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pushing air backwards and then the wings

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move a plane upward as the air

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flows downward past them. Also

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in our quest to find

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the best science ever, you

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can hear all about mechanobiology.

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We study how the cells in our

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bodies sense and respond to mechanical forces.

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What's interesting is that our cells contain

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tiny little motor proteins and as

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mechanobiologists we want to work out how these

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motors and mechanical forces control the cells. And

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we'll talk all about nuclear pasta and

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why you can't eat it. It's all

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coming up in our brand new Fun Kids

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Science Weekly. Let's

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start with your science in the news.

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Elon Musk's mammoth new rocket system has

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returned to Earth in a groundbreaking fourth

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test flight. It finished in a soft

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ocean landing. It's the first one ever

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for the Starship vehicle. SpaceX, the company

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behind it, said the rocket's mission was

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to get the top part to head

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into space and to come back down

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plopping into the Indian Ocean. It

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was successful. It's a big step

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forward from other test flights when

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the booster was destroyed in flight.

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analysis, what are

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you looking at? How are you figuring

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out what cells are doing in our

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brain and that might speak to memory?

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Okay, so we're looking at the individual

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proteins themselves and how these switches work.

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We're measuring how much forces

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need to pull to switch a switch. And

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then we're working out what that the

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switch is controlling which programmer

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which part of the machinery. And

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then we're looking in diseases

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like Alzheimer's disease, where

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these switches are connected to the

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proteins which go wrong in the

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brain. So we're trying to work

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on the idea that Alzheimer's is

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caused in part because these switch patterns

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get corrupted and they get messed up

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by this disease. And then the information

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gets scrambled, and then you forget it.

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So we're trying to understand how in

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neuronal cells, how they're talking to each

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other via these motors and via these

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switches. Now I always finish with this

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question, Ben, let me throw you forward

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years and years and years to like

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the end of your career. What's the

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one question that you really want to

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answer? What do you want to know in

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your science? So the big moonshot prize of

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what we're currently trying to work on is

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that there's a binary code in all animals

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and we call it a mesh code theory

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at the minute, we've got this meshwork of

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switches. So we want to prove

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A, there's a binary code, and then B,

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learn how to read it and how to

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edit it and how to understand

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it. So to be able to read memories

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would be the moonshot of what we were

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trying to do. And then

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along the way, hopefully make good insight

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into treating a number of neurological diseases

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such as Alzheimer's. Is there a worry,

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Ben, that if we were to be

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able to read memories and almost

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make data of it to be able to

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write down what certain codes and certain switches

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flicked mean, and be able to

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build a picture, that's all

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stored somewhere that nothing is ever private

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again, you could write some amazing