Obama on extraterrestrials, and the fart facts project.

Your daily kids news podcast. Elephant sensory superhairs; a teaching prize triumph; Obama on extraterrestrials; the fart facts project. An art teacher turned neighbourhood walls into giant textbooks! Rouble Nagi just won $1 million for helping kids learn maths and reading through colourful murals. Big political news! Angus Taylor has taken over from Sussan Ley as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia. Scientists in Germany have been researching elephants' super-sensitive whiskers! They even 3D-printed a giant whisker to test it. When Barack Obama joked that aliens are “real,” the internet blasted off! He later explained: space is HUGE, so life could exist somewhere — but no alien visits to Earth (that he saw!) US scientists created “smart underwear” to measure farts — yes, really! For the full episode transcript, click here.