Sleep Tight Science - A Bedtime Science Podcast For Kids

How Is Beach Sand Made? 🏖️

This episode’s questions are all about sand, which we have to admit is making us wish for summer again, because where we live there might be many wonderful beaches, but i

What Makes the Air Move? 🌬️

In this episode, we’ll find out what air is actually made of, why it moves from one place to another, and how something as simple as a fan can make its own little breeze.

Vampire Bats: Why Would a Bat Share Its Dinner? 🦇

Most of our episodes start with a question from a listener, or at least in the past, they were heavily influenced by all of you. This one started with the calendar instea

UPDATED! Fun Facts: Creepy, Crawly, and a Little Bit Gross! 🧟🪳| Encore spooky fun facts

In this episode, we are going to learn about the animal kingdom’s strangest and grossest creatures! We’ll start with the housefly, discovering its unique habits like tast

Some Stories Are Too Big for One Night 📚

These are longer stories told one chapter at a time, in order, so you can follow along from the first night to the last. I introduce each chapter, and Clark’s music plays

Fun Facts: Snake-Headed Caterpillars & Sand Made by Fish 🐛🪸

In this episode, we’ll trade the big questions for a handful of small fun facts. We’ll meet a caterpillar that bluffs like a snake, then swim to a coral reef to find out

Do you know about ghosts? 👻🎃 | Encore spook

We are bringing back this one from a few years ago. In this episode, we discover why you might have thought you saw a ghost. We found out that many cultures, even if they

Why Is Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Red? 🪐

Éabha, who is six, and Fionn, who is eight, both wrote to us about the same thing: what is the red spot on Jupiter made of, and why is it red? In this episode, we'll fin

Why Do a Butterfly's Wings Match? 🦋

Luna and Elodie both noticed that the pattern on one side of a butterfly looks copied onto the other. In this episode, we'll find out that butterfly wings actually grow s

Why do cats rub against us? 🐈‍⬛

This episode’s question comes from Gabe, who lives in Des Moines, Iowa. Gabe wanted to know why cats rub against us. We will explore what a cat's scent glands are doing,

How Does a Bee Choose a Flower? 🌼🐝

Ava, age 5, wants to know how bumblebees land on flowers. It turns out bees can sense something invisible in the air before they even touch down, and it took scientists y

Do Crows Really Hold a Grudge? 🐦‍⬛

Did you know a crow can remember your face? If it decides you're trouble, it can recognize you years later, and it might tell its friends. Even ones that never met you.To

Nocturnal Animals: How Can Anything See in the Dark? 🌙👀

Did you know the night is never really pitch dark, even with no moon out? There's always a little light, and some animals have eyes built to catch every bit of it.Tonight

Season 5 Finale: Everything Connects 🦏🦭🪲🧠🌌✨

What does a rhinoceros have in common with a flamingo, a hedgehog, and an eagle? Why does the same logic that put your brain in your head also explain how a crocodile lie

Do You Know About the Dung Beetle? 🪲

In this episode, before you drift off to sleep, we are going to learn all about the dung beetle. The dung beetle does a job nobody else wants. It eats dung, rolls dung, a

What Would Happen If You Fell Into a Black Hole? 🕳️

In this episode we are going to try to answer the question, What Would Happen If You Fell Into a Black Hole. And in trying to do so we are going learn all kinds of cool s

Fun Facts: Meat-Eaters, Giants, and the Strangest Dinosaurs 🦕

In this episode we are going to share some facts about dinosaurs. We have other episodes on dinosaurs which you can find on our feed, but like you we still like to learn

Why Is Our Brain in Our Head? 🧠

In this episode, Shiying asked us why our brain is in our head and the answer took us back more than 500 million years to some of the earliest animals with a clear front

Do you know about trees? 🌲 | New version!

Have you ever wondered about how trees grow? How can you tell how old they are? or Why are trees so important? In this episode we are going to talk about all these things

Do you know about jets? ✈️🛫🌍🛬 | Encore vroom

In this encore episode of Sleep Tight Science, we’re learning all about jets! What makes a jet different from other airplanes? How do jet engines work? And why are jets s