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This week, we’re buzzing around Peterborough’s brand-new bee-friendly bus stops, counting down to humanity’s next trip to the Moon, and finding out why someone just paid a jaw-dropping fortune for a dinosaur!

• 🐝 Bee Bus Stops: Peterborough is going green, right on top of its bus shelters! The city council has approved a 10-year plan to install 34 “living roof” bus stops covered in plants. Find out how these mini rooftop gardens give bees, butterflies, and other pollinators a place to feed and rest in the middle of a busy city.
• 🌙 Artemis III Countdown: Get ready for the Moon! NASA’s next big Artemis mission, Artemis III, is targeted for launch in June 2027. Discover what the mission is all about and why it’s such a giant leap for space exploration.
• 🦕 The $47 Million Dinosaur: Palaeontologist Megan Jacobs joins Dan to dig into the recent sale of a dinosaur skeleton in New York for almost $47 million! Why are fossils selling for such enormous sums, and what does it mean for scientists who want to study them? We find out!
• 🚗 How Is a Car Built?: Marcos Kauffman answers Saul’s question about how cars are made. Discover how thousands of parts, giant robots, and busy production lines come together to turn sheets of metal into a car ready for the road!
• 🐼 Dangerous Dan: Meet the Qinling panda! This rare panda from the Qinling Mountains in China is famous for its unusual brown and white fur. But don’t let the cuddly look fool you: with powerful jaws built for crunching through tough bamboo and sharp claws for climbing, this bear is no teddy!
• 🧠 Brain Box: Science historian Seb Falk from Cambridge University steps into the Brain Box to take us on a journey through the history of science and how people in the past made sense of the world around them.

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