All Around Science

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...RESOURCEShttps://phys.org/news/2024-07-reveals-people-evolve.htmlhttps://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.aax4705https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/child-psychology-and-psychiatry-review/article/abs/development-of-play-during-childhood-forms-and-possible-functions/65657B6446A0BF84BB8BFC238CA09B8Dhttps://cms.learningthroughplay.com/media/esriqz2x/role-of-play-in-childrens-development-review_web.pdfhttps://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(14)01333-5.pdfhttps://cms.learningthroughplay.com/media/esriqz2x/role-of-play-in-childrens-development-review_web.pdfhttps://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/spc3.12205https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax4705https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=VBviEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=developmental+role+of+play+in+humans&ots=I1zODghrkh&sig=SeYm8jqwJKxvX4DP_l-VOJWr5Pk#v=onepage&q=developmental%20role%20of%20play%20in%20humans&f=falseCREDITS:Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura ArmstrongBooking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allenhttps://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOULhttp://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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...RESOURCESA recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater, and caffeine | MIT NewsAs egg prices soar, the deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history drags onCows in Texas and Kansas test positive for highly pathogenic bird fluBird flu flare: Cattle in 5 states now positive as Texas egg farm shuts downH5Na Bird Flue Detections Across the United States in Backyard and Commercial PoultryCurrent H5N1 Bird Flu Situation in Dairy Cows | CDCCREDITS:Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura ArmstrongBooking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allenhttps://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOULhttp://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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...RESOURCESWooly Mammoth DNA in 3Dhttps://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00642-1?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867424006421%3Fshowall%3Dtruehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8584255/https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240711111343.htmhttps://www.sciencenews.org/article/drying-woolly-mammoth-dna-3d-glasshttps://x.com/jrotwitguez/status/1811423817069404468?t=cmk6ncJYQJsVtBx39LEezA&s=19CREDITS:Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura ArmstrongBooking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allenhttps://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOULhttp://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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...RESOURCEShttps://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/12/improbable-research-seeing-upside-downhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbiology/fungal-spore-germination#:~:text=Spore%20germination%20is%20a%20preliminary,factors%20that%20aid%20spore%20germinationhttps://time.com/6292311/fungal-spores-pathogens-essay/CREDITS:Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura ArmstrongBooking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allenhttps://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOULhttp://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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...RESOURCESThe Lacrimal Glandhttps://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/02/the-mysterious-science-of-motion-sickness/385469/https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/why-do-we-drool-before-being-sickhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780323672931000086https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/hypersalivationhttps://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/why-do-we-salivate-when-were-nauseous-880551https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7987796/CREDITS:Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura ArmstrongBooking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allenhttps://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOULhttp://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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...RESOURCESCall the ant doctor: Amputation gives injured ants a leg up on infections | Ars TechnicaCREDITS:Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura ArmstrongBooking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allenhttps://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOULhttp://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Sure Why CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady  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: 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-Super Nova https://www.cnet.com/science/get-ready-to-see-a-sky-explosion-that-only-happens-once-every-80-years/ https://earthsky.org/tonight/in-a-dark-sky-look-for-the-northern-crown/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_dwarf https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova#:~:text=All%20observed%20novae%20involve%20white,RNe)%2C%20and%20dwarf%20novae. CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady  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: 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://undark.org/2023/05/25/where-the-wood-wide-web-narrative-went-wrong/ https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/mycorrhizal-networks-wood-wide-web https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/05/18/Detangling-Debate-Wood-Wide-Web/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-whispering-trees-180968084/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-largest-organism-is-fungus/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-01986-1#Sec12 CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady  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: 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.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7824107/# https://neuralink.com/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuralink https://www.captechu.edu/blog/neuralinks-brain-chip-how-it-works-and-what-it-means https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/31/what-is-elon-musks-neuralink-brain-chip-now-being-tested-on-humans#:~:text=The%20disk%20would%20register%20brain,by%20thinking%E2%80%9D%2C%20said%20Musk. CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady  THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.