All Around Science

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: New Study of Coronavirus Variants Predicts Virus Evolving to Escape Current Vaccines, Treatments ARTICLE: Covid-19: Novavax vaccine shows 89% efficacy in UK trials ARTICLE: Origin of Life: The chicken-and-egg problem 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: 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 process ARTICLE: Did teenage 'tyrants' outcompete other dinosaurs? ARTICLE: On the sudden stratospheric warming and polar vortex of early 2021 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: 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 continents like here on Earth ARTICLE: A magnetic field reversal 42,000 years ago may have contributed to mass extinctions 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: 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's first Mars mission - Spaceflight Now 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: 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://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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: The Neurobiology of Substance Use, Misuse, and Addiction 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: 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 news, correct after reading | MIT 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: 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 'green recovery' plans aim to cut emissions ARTICLE: Mystery of massive, train-stopping millipede swarms solved 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, 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 -- or lighter? 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 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: SARS-CoV-2 Variants THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.