All Around Science

On today’s episode: Cats love catnip, and mosquitoes hate it! How does COVID get into the brain? And we dig into what happens inside the brains of those suffering from addiction. All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Why cats are crazy for catnip ARTICLE: COVID-19 virus enters the brain, research strongly suggests ARTICLE: Understanding Addiction | Harvard Health READING:...

On today’s episode: Good news! It seems that public schools are actually helping to prevent COVID transmission! Best practices when combating the spread of fake news on social media. And what is “motivated reasoning” and how does it lead to conspiracy thinking? All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Basic pandemic safety limits spread in schools ARTICLE: To combat false new...

On today’s episode: COVID dropped carbon emissions in 2020, but the real climate win lies in what we do next. Millipedes that stop trains in their tracks! And the science behind how we know that humans are changing Earth’s climate. All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: COVID curbed carbon emissions in 2020 -- but not by much ARTICLE: Coronavirus: Tracking how the world's '...

On today’s episode, baby Megalodon was Yoooooge. The weird and wonderful genome of the majestic platypus. And scientists debate about a 150 year old rule about animals. All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Newborn megalodon sharks were larger than most adult humans. ARTICLE: How Earth's oddest mammal got to be so bizarre. ARTICLE: Will climate change make animals darker -...

On today’s episode spiders might be building a tempting oasis to trap their pre. New flexible materials inspired by squids! What we know about the UK and South African SARS CoV 2 variants All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: These spiders may sew leaves into fake shelters to lure frogs to their doom ARTICLE: 3D-printed smart gel changes shape when exposed to light ARTICLE...

On today’s episode Satellites made out of wood? Bronze Age food trade may have been more global than we thought! Archaeologists found an ancient Roman fast food restaurant! All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Japan developing wooden satellites to cut space junk ARTICLE: The aroma of distant worlds ARTICLE: Archaeologists excavate ancient Roman takeout counter at Pompeii...

On today’s episode, we go back through 2020 to bring you some news items you may have missed: Super detailed photos of the sun! A new sparrow song has gone viral in Canada! Mars has Marsquakes! And a way to translate thoughts directly into text. All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: See the most detailed photos of the sun ever taken ARTICLE: A 'Viral' New Bird Song in Cana...

On today’s episode: How do we learn it’s better to give than to receive? Have we discovered a new solar system superhighway? If the north pole moves, does that mean Santa has to move too? All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: ARTICLE: Is It Better to Give Than Receive? ARTICLE: Fast Superhighway Through the Solar System Discovered THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/K...

On today’s episode: Scientists are still learning what causes leaves to change color. Evidence for the hypothesis that water is actually two coexisting liquids! Eyeballs are really neat! All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: ARTICLE: Which factors trigger leaf die-off in Autumn? ARTICLE: Two liquids of water exist THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http:...

On today’s episode: DeepMind breaks more barriers with their protein-predicting AI AlphaFold. Them scientists at NASA have got MOXIE… and other ways to get oxygen too. And how to make a protein! All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: ARTICLE: 'It will change everything': DeepMind's AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures ARTICLE: Mars' underground brine could be a goo...

On today’s episode: AstraZeneca flubbed their vaccine trial… but can we learn something? Once we get a COVID vaccine, immunity may last longer than we originally expected. The story of a star: from birth to black hole. All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: ARTICLE: AstraZeneca's best COVID vaccine result was a fluke. Experts have uestions ARTICLE: Immunity to the Coronavirus May...

On today’s episode: How have stars affected our trees? New research makes us question what we know about the gender roles of hunter gatherers. What are isotopes and why do they matter? All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: ARTICLE: Tree rings may hold clues to impacts of distant supernovae on Earth ARTICLE: Early big-game hunters of the Americas were female, researchers suggest T...

On today’s episode: Midnight snacking and your midsection. Newborn baby brains appear to be primed to learn how to read. And everything you need to know about that new Pfizer vaccine everyone’s talking about. All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: ARTICLE: Squeezing most of your calories in early doesn't impact weight loss ARTICLE: Humans are born with brains 'prewired' to see wor...

On today’s episode: Neurocientists find that political bias affects neural patterns. Turns out there might NOT be life on Venus? Bummer! Tokamaks! Weird birds? Halloween costume? Fusion reactor? What are they? All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: ARTICLE: Hot-button words trigger conservatives and liberals differently ARTICLE: Doubts over a 'possible sign of life' on Venus show...

On today’s episode: We’ve figured out how to teach robots to do the laundry even faster! We found water on the moon….again? So what is CRISPR-Cas9 anyway? How does it work? All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: ARTICLE: Dog training methods help researchers teach robots to learn new tricks ARTICLE: NASA's SOFIA Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen...

LINKS: ARTICLE: Babies Prefer What They Choose Even When Random ARTICLE: Voyager Spacecraft Detect an Increase in the Density of Space Outside the Solar System Vihart's Fibonacci Videos Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Numberphile - The Golden Ratio (why it is so irrational) THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

On today’s episode: It’s Nobel Prize time! A serendipitous discovery may mean new treatment options for Type 2 diabetes. It’s time to talk about COVID being airborne. All that and more today on All Around Science… LINKS: ARTICLE: Herd Immunity - A Rough Guide ARTICLE: Nobel Prize Annoucement ARTICLE: Remote control of blood sugar: Electromagnetic fields treat diabetes in animal models LETTER: Airb...

On today’s episode: Plastic eating enzymes are helping us improve recycling. Does too many pictures make it too hard to read? And we get to the core of the science of subglacial lakes. All that and more today on All Around Science… LINKS: ARTICLE: Characterization and engineering of a two-enzyme system for plastics depolymerization ARTICLE: Busy pictures hinder reading ability in children ARTICLE:...

On today’s episode of All Around Science: Are perfectionist parents likely to be helicopter parents? Thick Martian ice might be harboring deep, hidden lakes. The Placebo Effect… what even is it? All that and more on today’s episode of All Around Science... LINKS: ARTICLE: Perfectionists may be more prone to helicopter parenti ng ARTICLE: Water on Mars: Discovery of three buried lakes intrigues sci...

On today’s episode of All Around Science: Scientists have taken a closer look at 66 million years of climate change. Baby animals all grow at different speeds.. But why? What would happen if the moon disappeared? All that and more on today’s episode of All Around Science... LINKS: June Almeida ARTICLE: High-fidelity record of Earth’s climate history puts current changes in context ARTICLE: Uncover...

  On today’s episode of All Around Science: Did you hear the news about Venus?!? How to lock away carbon for...ever? And we talk to Dr. Paul Offit about COVID vaccines  All that and more on today’s episode of All Around Science... LINKS: ARTICLE: Life on Venus? - Phil Plait's writeup of the news ARTICLE: Industrial waste can turn planet-warming carbon dioxide into stone THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen...

On today’s episode of All Around Science: The latest buzz on the hunt for cancer therapies Got Milk? Ancient Bronze Age Warriors sure did! We help you spot the difference between science and pseudoscience  All that and more on today’s episode of All Around Science... LINKS: ARTICLE: Bee Venom Kills Breast Cancer Cells ARTICLE: Study reveals lactose tolerance happened quickly in Europe THEME MUSIC...

On today’s episode of All Around Science: A rose by any other name you might remember is a rose at all. Tiny robots are the result of a breakthrough in nanoscale movement. Some new vaccine technology is on its way. What is it and how does it work? All that and more on today’s episode of All Around Science... LINKS: Naming guides how 12-month-old infants encode and remember objects Laser jolts micr...