All Around Science

On today’s episode: What is El Nino, and how will it affect us? A new battery that you can eat! All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES https://www.sciencenews.org/article/swiftiephylus-bug-named-taylor-swift This year's El Niño just broke a record months before it's expected to peak What is El Niño (ENSO) | YouTube What are El Niño and La Niña? | NOAA What we talk about...

On today’s episode:T. Rex is warm-blooded, and I’m gonna answer some listener questions. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Scientists finally figured out the temperature of T. rex's blood ‪— and it was as hot as ours | Live Science CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KE...

On today’s episode: AI has generated an important mathematical proof, and it’s causing turbulence in the math community. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES OpenAI breakthrough triggers ‘existential crisis’ in math | Science | AAAS CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady  THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KE...

On today’s episode: Raindrops hold little lightning bolts that are damaging your car. The Ig Nobel prizes have been awarded for 2026. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Raindrops are tiny lightning bolts, and they’re corroding cars, study finds | Ars Technica Past Ig Winners – Improbable Research CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - Septemb...

On today’s episode:The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has launched! Carbon dioxide is making our carrots less nutritious. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES NASA’s Roman Mission Gears Up for a Torrent of Future Data 'The apple you eat isn't the apple your granddaughter will eat': What's on the menu in a warming world? | Live Science CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger...

On today’s episode: Life’s Last Universal Common Ancestor might not have been fully alive. Scientists wiped the memory of a bunch of lab mice… and they weren’t even EVIL scientists! All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Life’s ‘last universal common ancestor’ may predate life itself | Scientific American Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses | Ars Techn...

On today’s episode: Personlized cancer vaccines are coming! This worm can eat plastic! All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Bobby was on Daily Tech News Show Moderna Press Release New Cancer Vaccine Could Change America in 7 Surprising Ways | Newsweek Moderna, Merck breakthrough could usher in wave of cancer vaccines | CNN Moderna, Merck unveil mRNA-based cancer vaccine that...

On today’s episode: A way to turn unsorted plastic into hydrogen! What’s the coldest place you’ve ever lived? I bet it’s not as cold as Antarctica! All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES New process turns mixed plastic waste into hydrogen fuel without sorting Antarctica just experienced minus 119 F, Earth's coldest temperature since 2012 — here's why | Live Science CREDITS: Wri...

On today’s episode: Astronomers have discovered a first: sister supernovae. Our ancestors had their eye on more hominins than we originally thought. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES In a cosmic first, astronomers detect 2 sibling supernovas that came from a pair of bound stars | Live Science Shared cloud interactions unveil a candidate binary-system supernova pair with no...

On today’s episode: Do dolphins have names? Orcas have the weirdest piñatas. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Are dolphins the only animals that call each other by name? | Science Watch orcas ram a sunfish so hard it explodes | Ars Technica CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady  THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://tw...

On today’s episode: How come your uncle says he loves science, but also thinks chemtrails are real? An amateur astronomer discovered a crater in Quebec! All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Why do some people who trust in science also believe in scientific conspiracy theories? | The Conversation What they don’t tell you about conspiracy theories: genius-driven science and inf...

On today’s episode: How naked mole rats synchronize their cycles. California is overdue for the next big one… are you prepared? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES How naked mole rat queens stop rivals reproducing A queen odour mediates reproductive suppression in a eusocial mammal | Nature A Millennium of Pressure Has Been Building Under California Fault Lines. What Does Th...

On today’s episode: Talking about your birth story helps you deal with your…birth story The SpudCell is here! The first completely artificial cell that feeds, grows, and reproduces! All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Researchers Discover a Rare, Carnivorous Caterpillar That Wears Dead Insect Parts to Fool Spiders | Smithsonian The power of conversation post-childbirth: Midw...

On today’s episode: Orangutan mothers organize playdates! Just like humans! Cyborg cockroaches just got an upgrade. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's 10-year movie of the universe is about to 'blow our minds' | Live Science Orangutan mothers seem to plan playdates for their offspring | New Scientist Great apes use self-experience to anticipa...

On today’s episode: Spiders that launch their prey into their web! Scientists are fighting cancer by making it cosplay as malaria. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES This Newly Discovered Spider Builds a Unique Web That Catapults Ants Through the Air Phages could enable us to hijack vaccine immunity to kill cancer cells | New Scientist Discovery of VIP236, an αvβ3-Targeted...

On today’s episode: Bats in helium fly weird. Invisible lightning is creating invisible, air-cleaning substances! And one of the world's oldest science experiments involves secret treasure maps!  All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Researchers raise bats in helium-rich air to check how they sense sound ARTICLE: Lightning and subvisible discharges produce molecu...

On today’s episode: Do we hear silence? Simon and Garfunkel may have been on to something. And we finally close the book on the four fundamental forces by talking about gravity. All that and more today on All Around Science... CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady  THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewalle...

On today’s episode: Despite what you might be reading in the news… aspartame is safe! And it’s part three in our series on the four fundamental forces; let’s talk about the weak force! All that and more today on All Around Science... CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady  THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://and...

On today’s episode: A lake in Canada has earned the Golden Spike. How do the protons and neutrons in an atom GLUE themselves together? … The Strong Force. All that and more today on All Around Science... CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady  THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Ac...

On today’s episode: Scientists made a telescope out of pulsars and now we can see HUGE gravitational waves! Magnets. How DO they work? All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: SOURCES NANOGrav hears “hum” of gravitational wave background, louder than expected LIGO Scientific Collaboration FAQ 10.1: Relativity Requires Magnetism | LibreTexts Physics THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https:...

On today’s episode: There’s a new device that smells your farts. Bloated whales, lying in, and grey hair: It’s a mailbag episode! All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Smart underwear detects lactose intolerance by tracking your farts | New Scientist https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/11/29/scientists-discover-secret-to-waking-up-alert-and-refreshed/ https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643...

On today’s episode: What do we really know about the effect of using ChatGPT in the classroom? Electric vehicle technology has changed a lot over the past five years. Is it worth it yet? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags - Ars Technica https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-went-methodologically-wrong-cha...

On today’s episode: Everyone in hospital dramas always has sepsis! But maybe not much longer if these researchers have anything to say about it. And we talk about a beautiful infographic about the building blocks of our universe: the periodic table of elements. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES A whole new way to prevent death from sepsis shows promise | New Scientist http...

On today’s episode: Bruce has no upper beak and complete authority over his circus. I built a deck in the middle of a drought! What is a drought? And why are we having one? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Meet Bruce, the "beak-jousting" parrot - Ars Technica Florida is facing its most intense drought in 15 years. Here's how it got so bad and how long it will last. | Live...

On today’s episode: The second part of our chat about the amazingly successful journey that Integrity just went on with the Artemis 2 mission. CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady  THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.