All Around Science

On today’s episode: A breakthrough in our understanding of preeclampsia! And we celebrate the weird fringes of science by looking at this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes. All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: SOURCES In major breakthrough, Western, Brown researchers close in on preeclampsia cure Ig Nobel Prizes THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewalle...

On today’s episode: Spicy foods might be more dangerous than we thought. And what happens when a parasite messes with the wrong organism? All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: SOURCES The room-temperature superconductor that wasn’t Teen’s death after eating a single chip highlights risks of ultra-spicy foods FEATURE SOURCES https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36070203/ https://futuri...

On today’s episode: Do opposites attract, or do birds of a feather flock together? Today we study our enemy… the fly… All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: SOURCES News flash: Opposites don't actually attract | CU Boulder Today Correlations between human mating partners: a comprehensive meta-analysis of 22 traits and raw data analysis of 133 traits in the UK Biobank How do flies...

On today’s episode: Apparently scientists have finally finished sequencing the human genome! Finally, for the fourth time. And speaking of hot research from the 90s…what’s up with stem cells lately? All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: SOURCES Students built a little baby satellite with space brakes that can help it deorbit without expensive rockets or complex machinery Scientis...

On today’s episode: AI unlocked the world for a woman who hasn’t spoken for 18 years. How does caffeine work? And why doesn’t it seem to work for everyone? All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: SOURCES How Artificial Intelligence Gave a Paralyzed Woman Her Voice Back | UC San Francisco Sleep pressure; is this why we crash?  Why Caffeine Affects People Differently | Discover Why d...

On today’s episode: More evidence that Mars was a great place for life to maybe happen… maybe… Nostalgia hurts, feels good, and could help make you a better person. All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: SOURCES Mars rover finds signs of seasonal floods https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/17/12/1131/6585517#384170666 https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/nosta...

On today’s episode: Genes that pose risks in advanced age may show benefits when we’re younger. We all want to know if social media is making our uncles more polarized in our echo chambers… well scientists are figuring it out! Probably. All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: SOURCES Alzheimer’s gene associated with increased fertility in Amazonian women | ASU News Did Facebook fue...

On today’s episode: Not a lot of doctors know this… but you can be allergic to MEAT! The Gulf Stream won’t collapse in the next two years. Probably. All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: SOURCES GPT-3 aces tests of reasoning by analogy Meat allergy from tick bites is on the rise—and US doctors are in the dark SPECIAL REPORT: SPECIAL REPORT ON THE OCEAN AND CRYOSPHERE IN A CHANGIN...

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... LINKS: SOURCES The perception of silence The Perception of Silence From Event Representation to Linguistic Meaning The one-is-more illusion: Sets of discrete objects appear...

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... LINKS: SOURCES Aspartame and cancer: Why you really shouldn’t worry about this Aspartame and Cancer What Is the Weak Force? | LiveScience The Mystery of the Matter As...

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... LINKS: SOURCES Canada's Crawford Lake chosen as 'golden spike' to mark proposed new epoch | CBC News THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted...

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: What is the true cost of all this wildfire smoke? Glass is a fascinating substance of contradicting properties! Let’s learn about it! All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: SOURCES Wildfire smoke downwind affects health, wealth and mortality | Cornell Chronicle THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Ac...

On today’s episode: Soon you might be able get your blood pressure by pinching your smartphone. Psilocybin and other psychedelics might be a major advancement in treating some mental illnesses. All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: SOURCES Ultra low-cost smartphone attachment measures blood pressure at home Ethical principles of traditional Indigenous medicine to guide western ps...

On today’s episode: No one is honest anymore! Or are they…? Blueberries aren’t blue, blue flowers aren’t blue, most things aren’t really blue… Why is blue so hard to find? All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: SOURCES Morality is declining, right? Scientists say that idea is an illusion Why is blue so easy to make in a lab? THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwith...

On today’s episode: To celebrate our 144th episdoe, we answered all your gross science questions: earwax, clogged pipes, boogers... There was just so much it went on to a 145th episode! All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: SOURCES https://atlasbiomed.com/blog/wet-earwax-dry-earwax-and-earwax-colours-of-earwax/   https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326093#earwax-textures Sa...

On today’s episode: To celebrate our 144th episdoe, we answered all your gross science questions: toejam, poop, pee... All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: SOURCES https://www.livescience.com/37664-human-urine-colors-rainbow.html https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/313779#causes https://www.ucsfhealth.org/medical-tests/hemoglobinuria-test https://www.health.harvard.edu/new...

On today’s episode: Vaccines are in the news! And it’s not COVID this time. Whether or not you find them appealing, there’s hope in the research to save bananas. All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: Long-sought universal flu vaccine: mRNA-based candidate enters clinical trial BANANA SOURCES https://asm.org/Articles/2021/June/Clone-Wars-How-Fusarium-Fungi-Control-the-Banana-I htt...

On today’s episode: It’s happening… Scientists are starting to be able to read our minds! We might owe the existence of life to quasars. All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: Evidence of conscious-like activity in the dying brain | Michigan Medicine The potential for a plastic recycling facility to release microplastic pollution and possible filtration remediation effectiveness R...

On today’s episode: It’s happening… Scientists are starting to be able to read our minds! We might owe the existence of life to quasars. All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: Reading The Mind with fMRI and AI | Neurologica Blog QUASAR SOURCES https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazar https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/astronomers-solve-60-year-mystery-quasars-most-powerful-objects-unive...

On today’s episode: If you fall off your bike, most people will help you. Just because it’s “natural” does not mean it’s “good”... let’s talk about logical fallacies! All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: Small acts of kindness are frequent and universal, study finds | UCLA Raw milk from farm with no electricity sparks outbreak that nearly killed baby THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen...

On today’s episode: Scientists think they figured out where all the water came from! How to make science fun for the kids in your life! All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: Chemical reactions on the early Earth may have formed its ocean THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...

On today’s episode: Did you hear about the astronomical breakup? DRAMA! We try to solve the unsolvable problems of mathematics. All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars | NASA THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...

On today’s episode: Ancient Egyptians have handed archaeologists new evidence of a gruesome ceremonial practice. Migraines. They’re a lot more than a headache. All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: Gruesome cache of severed hands is evidence of trophy-taking in ancient Egypt First osteological evidence of severed hands in Ancient Egypt What is a migraine? A Mayo Clinic expert exp...

On today’s episode: Monkeys and magic! We thought we domesticated elephants, but it turns out they domesticated themselves. All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: [ARTICLE] Sleight-of-hand magic trick only fools monkeys with opposable thumbs | University of Cambridge [ARTICLE] Mirroring Behavior | Scientific American [ARTICLE] Comparison with humans and bonobos suggests wild Afric...