All Around Science

On today’s episode: The Earth has a new electric field and it’s shooting our atmosphere into space! A quick primer on how to spot pseudoscience. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Rocket launch discovers long-sought global electric field on Earth https://www.popsci.com/fact-check-science-study-news/ https://www.popsci.com/diy/spot-fake-science/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...

On today’s episode: Brown, white, or beige? Are those decor choices or fat cell types? Crude oil… it’s everywhere and in everything. Let’s learn about it. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Beige fat cells with a “Sisyphus mechanism” | ETH Zurich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum#Formation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_refinery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI3O...

On today’s episode: How do sharks swim so fast? Denticles! How do tattoos work? And how safe are they? Hybrid swarms are causing extinctions… and we’re one of them! Why do we play? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Studying the skin of the great white shark could help reduce drag in aircraft https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9846827/ https://www.frontiersin.org/...

On today’s episode: Genes might exist outside chromosomes The dramatic story of the time Voyager 1 stopped sending us messages, and how a crack team of NASA engineers figured out how to fix it. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Last days of the lonely interstellar spacecraft | Financial Times Liquid water found on Mars Bacteria Encode Hidden Genes Outside Their Genome—Do W...

On today’s episode: Hybrid swarms are causing extinctions… and we’re one of them! Why do we play? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES https://phys.org/news/2024-07-reveals-people-evolve.html https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/play-may-be-a-deeper-part-of-human-nature-than-we-thought/ https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.aax4705 https://www.cambridge.org/c...

On today’s episode: Making hydrogen gas out of soda cans and coffee grounds. Bird flu has been making its way into farm animals. Should we be worried? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES A recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater, and caffeine | MIT News As egg prices soar, the deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history drags on Cows in Texas and Kansas test positi...

On today’s episode: We finally know what the woolly mammoth’s DNA looked like! Can cloud seeding cause major weather events? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Wooly Mammoth DNA in 3D https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00642-1?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867424006421%3Fshowall%3Dtrue https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc...

On today’s episode: Do people with glasses see a wholly different world? 99 NASA balloons floating telescopes in the summer sky. How do fungal spores know it’s time to start growing? How do neutron stars and black holes squeeze that much stuff into one place? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/12/improbable-research-seeing-upsi...

On today’s episode: What’s the deal with salty tears? Why do we gain so much weight when we’re on vacation? What does saliva have to do with vomiting? How do snails get their shells? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES The Lacrimal Gland https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/02/the-mysterious-science-of-motion-sickness/385469/ https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human...

On today’s episode: Some ants know when to save the leg and when to amputate. If you snip off a taste bad will you ever taste that taste again? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Call the ant doctor: Amputation gives injured ants a leg up on infections | Ars Technica CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady  THEME MUSIC b...

On today’s episode: Gray whales are getting smaller, and scientists aren’t really sure why. And we talk about what sci-fi has missed in its predictions over the decades. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Mountain-size 'planet killer' asteroid will make a close approach to Earth today VIDEO   These Gray Whales Are Shrinking, and Scientists Aren’t Su...

On today’s episode: Clouds of dust in space may have changed our ancestors’ climate and night sky. If you know where to look this summer, then you can see a star exploding! All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES AI might run out of reading material soon The Solar System May Have Passed through Dense Interstellar Cloud 2 Million Years Ago, Altering Earth’s Climate Our Not-So-Sup...

On today’s episode: Neuralink isn’t the only company putting computer chips into brains… And we examine the tangled complexity of the Wood Wide Web. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Precision, the Brain Computer Interface company started by a former Neuralink employee https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/14/trees-fungi-share-messages-resources/ https...

On today’s episode: Orchids might be supportive, loving parents! We’ve been hearing lots of news about Neuralink’s brain implants, so let’s talk about how it works and what’s going on. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Third thumb! Orchids support seedlings through ‘parental nurture’ via shared underground fungal networks | News | The University of Sheffield https://www.nc...

On today’s episode: Clear and concise science headlines help readers to avoid being misled. And we talk about how animals stay warm and keep cool. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Researcher steps on deadly vipers 40,000 times to better predict snakebites | Science https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2314091121 First ‘warm-blooded’ dinosaurs may have emerged 180 million...

On today’s episode: What happens when mice eat a ketogenic diet mostly consisting of Crisco? What causes the northern lights? And why does everyone keep talking about how much damage they can do? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES How do you pronounce “hockey”? US players say it with “fake Canadian” accent. | Ars Technica https://theconversation.com/solar-storm-knocks-out-f...

On today’s episode: Trying to be a perfect parent might actually make you…a worse parent. Storing energy from the grid using mechanical batteries. All that and more today on All Around Science... Dr. Kana's Reading Intervention and Brain Study Dr. Kana’s Reading Intervention and Brain Study (BrainREAD) is recruiting autistic and non-autistic children, ages 7-13 years, with reading comprehension di...

On today’s episode: Trying to be a perfect parent might actually make you…a worse parent. Storing energy from the grid using mechanical batteries. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Caterbot? Robotapillar? It crawls with ease through loops and bends- Princeton Engineering Study: Pressure to be “perfect” causing burnout for parents, mental health concerns for their children...

On today’s episode: Programmable fluids that can help pick blueberries without making a mess. And I talk about math and games with our very own math nerd; Bobby Frankenberger! All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Tiny rubber spheres used to make a programmable fluid CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady  THEME MUSIC by Andrew All...

On today’s episode: Playing sports is good for you; turns out, watching other people play is good for you too! Scientists have discovered a whole new part of a cell that seems to be evolving as we speak! All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Zoe's Fundraiser - tinyurl.com/helpthezoo The Joy of Sports: How Watching Sports Can Boost Well-Being – Waseda University Researchers fin...

On today’s episode: Your bad sense of direction is probably b/c you didn’t explore your neighborhood enough as a kid. How to publish a scientific paper. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Evidence for a unitary structure of spatial cognition beyond general intelligence Explaining World-Wide Variation in Navigation Ability from Millions of People: Citizen Science Project Sea...

On today’s episode: Good news for huggers! And non-huggers! Should we build new particle accelerators? And if so, what kind? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES New study highlights the benefit of touch on mental and physical health - Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience - Master the Mind US particle physicists want to build a muon collider — Europe should pitch in CREDITS...

On today’s episode: Apparently climate change is stealing an entire second from our day! How exactly do memories work? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Taylor Swift concerts cause earthquakes Climate change is delaying world clocks' need for a 'negative leap second' https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11028 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaw4325 https://www...

On today’s episode: There’s a neurological condition that makes everyone around you look like goblins and pigs! Scientists are testing a new anti-tick pill for humans! All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES If Faces Appear Distorted, You Could Have This Condition | Dartmouth A century of prosopometamorphopsia studies - ScienceDirect https://www.fda.gov/patients/drug-development...

On today’s episode: Scientists have found a bunch of new bacteria in our guts that help us digest plants! NASA’s many solutions to the engineering problem of pooping in space. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES Urban humans have lost much of their ability to digest plants Cryptic diversity of cellulose-degrading gut bacteria in industrialized humans The world's first animal...