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• Record rain in North Queensland;  a cave-dwelling zombie spider; scientists under the sea; and Queen Bey’s Grammy grab.

  Your daily kids news podcast. North Queensland has been hit with record-breaking rain, causing floods, road washouts, and power outages. Some towns got over two metres of rain in just three days. Scientists are working on underwater pods that could let people live in the ocean’s twilight zone—home to glowing creatures and deep-sea mysteries! Scientists filming a nature show in Ireland found a fungus that turns spiders into zombies! Beyoncé finally won Album of the Year and now holds the most Grammys ever—35! Kendrick Lamar’s diss track took home Song of the Year, and the event raised $7 million for wildfire relief. For the full episode transcript, click here. Check out the Squiz Kids website for all of our other Fun, Free and Fresh offerings! What is Newshounds - video explainer. Find out more about Newshounds. Get started for free HERE.

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• Classic - Learning Disabilities... Your Shortcut

  Up to one in ten Aussie kids has one... so did Albert Einstein... and they can make school really hard. This is your Squiz Kids Shortcut to learning disabilities—the podcast where we dive into the who, what, when, where, why and how of the big news stories. For the full episode transcript, click here. LINKS: Thank You, Mr Falker: read aloud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abN2aP_Dzd0 Check out the Squiz Kids website for all of our other Fun, Free and Fresh offerings! What is Newshounds - video explainer. Find out more about Newshounds. Get started for free HERE.

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• A volcano gets a voice; DeepSeek disrupts tech world; a record-breaking spacewalk; a van Gogh in the garage.

  Your daily kids news podcast. DeepSeek, a new AI chatbot, has skyrocketed to fame, beating ChatGPT in app downloads! It’s cheaper, open-source, and running on older tech—but not everyone’s thrilled. New Zealand’s stunning Mount Taranaki is now legally a person! That means it must be respected and protected, just like a human. The Māori people have always seen it as an ancestor—now the law agrees! The Mountain movie trailer. Astronaut Suni Williams set a record for most time spent spacewalking—over 62 hours! A Minnesota bargain hunter bought a painting for $50—now experts think it’s a long-lost Vincent van Gogh masterpiece! If confirmed, it could be worth $15 million! The painting, Elimar. Van Gogh's work. For the full episode transcript, click here. Check out the Squiz Kids website for all of our other Fun, Free and Fresh offerings! What is Newshounds - video explainer. Find out more about Newshounds. Get started for free HERE.

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• Kids vs Adults Weekly News S'Quiz

  Who's smarter, kids or adults? For the full episode transcript, click here. Check out the Squiz Kids website for all of our other Fun, Free and Fresh offerings! What is Newshounds - video explainer. Find out more about Newshounds. Get started for free HERE.

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• Scientists make a sun; Panda Cam is back; an Ashes showdown at the ‘G’; and a house in a highway.

  Your daily kids news podcast. The Aussie women are smashing records in the Ashes. The first women’s Test at the MCG since 1949 is set to break crowd records—let’s go, Australia! The Smithsonian National Zoo has two new giant pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao, and you can watch them live on Panda Cam! With 40 cameras streaming their every move, it’s panda-monium! Chinese scientists have kept a fusion reaction going for 18 minutes—a new record! This clean energy source could one day power the world without pollution. A man in China refused to sell his house, so the government built a motorway AROUND it! Now, cars zoom past while his home sits in the middle of the road, with only a pipe for an entrance . For the full episode transcript, click here. Check out the Squiz Kids website for all of our other Fun, Free and Fresh offerings! What is Newshounds - video explainer. Find out more about Newshounds. Get started for free HERE.

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