All Around Science

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 find every stinky garbage dumpster? A biologist explains their sensory superpower From how far can flies smell food? THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Scientists solve the genetic puzzle of sex-related Y chromosome Pluripotent Stem Cell-Based Cell Therapy—Promise and Challenges OTHER SOURCES https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8467501/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4313779/#sec-5title https://youtu.be/S72vKQEezN4?si=D4L44HETWRlnv7Ck https://www.masseyeandear.org/news/press-releases/2020/09/mass-eye-and-ear-doctors-collaborate-with-dana-farber-to-rebuild-damaged-corneas https://stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics/stc-basics https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/bone-marrow-transplant/in-depth/stem-cells/art-20048117 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12015-021-10262-3 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359644618301405 https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/144/11/1923/47944/Human-embryo-research-and-the-14-day-rule THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 does coffee make me tired? | Medical News Today THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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/nostalgia#:~:text=Nostalgia%20by%20motivating%20us%20to,the%20road%20in%20the%20future. https://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/Batcho_Nostalgia_Inventory.pdf https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/nostalgia-cowbells-meaning-life https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-09150-001 THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 fuel political polarization during the 2020 election? It’s complicated. US 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Study THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 CHANGING CLIMATECH | Summary for Policymakers A crucial system of ocean currents is heading for a collapse that ‘would affect every person on the planet’ https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-will-global-warming-stop-as-soon-as-net-zero-emissions-are-reached/ https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-paper-warning-of-a-collapse-of-the-atlantic-meridional-overturning-circulation/ https://twitter.com/rahmstorf/status/1684903347118051328 Partial Collapse of Gulf Stream Threatens Climate Chaos in Europe (greekreporter.com) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH-Nb2N7WY8&ab_channel=PaulBeckwith   Scientists discover mechanism that can cause collapse of great Atlantic circulation system (phys.org) THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 less extended than equivalent continuous entities in both space and time Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein's Prediction | LIGO Caltech What is Gravity? | Wondrium Perspectives | YouTube THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Asymmetry Do solar neutrinos affect nuclear decay on Earth? | Physics World The Weak Nuclear Force: Through the looking glass | Fermilab YouTube THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.