All Around Science

On today’s episode: Influencers may not be the best way to get information through a social network. We’ve got some news about ancient viruses and skinny magnets. And we chat science communication with Dr. Niki Ackermans. All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Study finds surprising source of social influence ARTICLE: Ancient 15,000-Year-Old Viruses Identified in Melting Ti...

On today’s episode: Soon we might be harvesting our sweat for ELECTRICITY! 16,000 poop samples later, we’ve concluded that genes DO affect your gut microbes. It’s time to talk about homeopathy. All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Finger wrap could one day let you power up wearables while you sleep ARTICLE: Our genes shape our gut bacteria, new research shows ARTICLE: A h...

On today’s episode: Time for Tiny Robot News! An experiment on shorter work weeks has some promising results! And we break down the summer heatwave of 2021. All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Insect-sized robot navigates mazes with the agility of a cheetah ARTICLE: Iceland Ran a 4-Year Experiment on Shorter Working Weeks. The Results Are Great Western North American Hea...

On today’s episode: Do our children’s immune systems suffer because of how clean modern society is? Don’t have a mind’s eye? Your brain may be different from those who do! Was the fall of the Roman Empire caused by lead poisoning? All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Being clean and hygienic need not impair childhood immunity ARTICLE: Brain connections mean some people la...

On today’s episode: Turns out stress can make you go gray; and relaxing might be able to reverse it! Astronomers have found where there might be alien planets looking at US! And your brain is controlling your gut; but your gut might also be controlling your brain? All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: It's True: Stress Does Turn Hair Gray (And It's Reversible) ARTICLE: Exo...

On today’s episode: Apparently Earth has a pulse! A very, very slow pulse…. Why do some of us doomscroll, and some of us don’t? And our Bitcoin follow-up, asking whether Bitcoin is bad for the environment. All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Earth has a 'pulse' of 27.5 million years ARTICLE: Study finds brain areas involved in seeking information about bad possibilities...

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On today’s episode: Taking breaks helps your brain learn things! We’ve learned a little more about our immune system’s team of assassins; natural killer cells. There’s a lot of hype around cryptocurrencies right now… but how do they work? All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Study shows how taking short breaks may help our brains learn new skills ARTICLE: SKI Scientists L...

On today’s episode: Morning waking time seems to be related to risk of depression. Giraffes have high blood pressure, but they don’t seem to care! Zombie fires are lurking in boreal forests! All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Morning waking time seems to be related to risk of depression ARTICLE: Heads up! The cardiovascular secrets of giraffes ARTICLE: Five years after...

On today’s episode: Honeybees are spreading viruses because of cannibalism. Psychadelics might reduce the effects of stress. And we talk to our real life scientist friend, Niki, about how we use animals to study brain injury. All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Honeybee 'Trojan horse' virus relies on bees' habit of cannibalizing their young ARTICLE: Non-hallucinogenic ps...

On today’s episode: The future of farming is...wriggly? Scientists force mice to socialize by using MIND CONTROL. Fungus farming ants have mastered some of the agricultural problems we humans have yet to solve. All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Kelp, maggots and mycoprotein among future foods that must be mass-farmed to combat malnutrition ARTICLE: Researchers force tw...

On today’s episode: New evidence in how to maintain long term weight loss! Real Life Holograms like in Star Wars! We revisit NASA’s iconic Voyager missions, which are still revealing truths about the universe. All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Researchers find the secret behind maintaining a healthy weight loss ARTICLE: Hologram Experts Can Now Create Real-Life Images...

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 molecules that c...

On today’s episode: Can video games lower risk of depression? Physicists didn’t see this one coming! And now we might have to invent new physics to explain it. And we dig into how your cells pull strings to change gene expression!  All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Boys who play video games have lower depression risk ARTICLE: Elusive particle may point to undiscovered...

On today’s episode: Scientists have discovered a way to switch genes off and then back on again! Flowers may not be able to count, but we have new insight into why their growth tends to follow the Fibonacci sequence. And finally… buckle up… we’re going to the moon!  All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: A CRISPR Genetic On-Off Switch ARTICLE: Researchers determine why the...

On today’s episode: Neuron repair might hold a key to understanding Alzheimer’s. Can giving kids sugar make their memory bad as adults? And we dig into the connection between COVID vaccines and blood clots. All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: How brain cells repair their DNA reveals "hot spots" of aging and disease ARTICLE: Sugar not so nice for your child's brain develo...

On today’s episode: If less is more, then why are we always adding more things? Robots! Made of cells! Ants get stressed about quarantine too.  All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: When asked to fix something, we don't even think of removing parts ARTICLE: Scientists Create the Next Generation of Living Robots ARTICLE: Xenobots 2.0: These Living Robots Elf-Assemble From F...

On today’s episode: In an epic struggle between plants and insects, one agent has stolen genetic secrets from the other side! Did volcanoes kill the dinosaurs? Can you see music and taste words? You might have synesthesia! All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Whitefly hijacks a plant detoxification gene that neutralizes plant toxins ARTICLE: Plant gene found in insect, sh...

On today’s episode: New bacteria found on the international space station. Solar canals in California could solve multiple environmental problems simultaneously. Can you see a sunset in your mind? Don’t take it for granted, because not everyone can! All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: New strains of bacteria found on the international space station ARTICLE: New analysis...

On today’s episode: A cleverly designed study digs into the effects of small doses of psychedelics. New climate models reveal that by 2100 we may not be eating deep fried oreos on ferris wheels anymore! And we explore the effects of shrinking arctic ice on the resilient underdogs of arctic ecosystems.  All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: ARTICLE: Traces of psychedelics make you...

On today’s episode: People are driving less during the pandemic, but traffic fatalities are increasing. Some SARS COV 2 variants are figuring out how to dodge our immune response, and mRNA has been hogging the biological spotlight… let’s talk about tRNA... All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: ARTICLE: U.S. Traffic Deaths Spiked in 2020, Even as People Stayed Off the Road ARTICLE...

On today’s episode: Under hundreds of meters of sediment, microbes are thriving thanks to radiation from space. Why were there so few dinosaurs?... Teenagers… Worried about the polar vortex? Wait until you hear about sudden stratospheric warming!  All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: URI researchers: Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive proc...

On today’s episode: Dreaming might be critical for learning to be scared of the right things. Earth’s water may have been locally sourced. And magnetic field reversals might be leading to mass extinctions!  All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Sleep is vital to associating emotion with memory, study finds ARTICLE: The Milky Way may be swarming with planets with oceans and...

On today’s episode: It’s tourism season at the red planet; China and UAE have successfully sent orbiters to Mars. Why do we care so much about water on Mars? The Perseverance rover is an incredible instrument of interplanetary science! All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: China launches ambitious Tianwen-1 Mars rover mission ARTICLE: Spectacular video released from China'...

On today’s episode: Life on Venus? Mmmmmmaybe not. An AI learns to play the piano just by watching someone’s hands! Let’s talk about how bad your memory really is. All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Scientific community on report of a strange chemical at Venus: Probably not ARTICLE: 'Audeo' teaches artificial intelligence to play piano THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https:...