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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.

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 years ago | UCL News Were Dinosaurs Warm-Blooded? | Discover Magazine Why Dinosaurs Were Like Tuna, Great Whites, and Echidnas Leatherback Sea Turtle | National Wildlife Federation https://www.britannica.com/science/dormancy/Dormancy-in-cold-blooded-vertebrates#ref1121981 https://www.hertswildlifetrust.org.uk/blog/types-of-hibernation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41684-018-0218-1 https://science.uq.edu.au/article/2021/12/warm-bodied-ties-between-mammals-and-birds-more-ancient-previously-recognised Evidence for mesothermy in dinosaurs | Science https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2939168/ https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/227/8/jeb247781/346529 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20807394/ https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/biology/ecology/endotherm-vs-ectotherm/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37990562/ 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: 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-farmers-high-tech-tractors-an-electrical-engineer-explains-how-a-larger-storm-could-take-down-the-power-grid-and-the-internet-177982 https://www.space.com/aurora-colors-explained https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/images/NOAAscales.pdf https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/help/the-kp-index.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/solar-storm-tractor-break-nebraska.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2024_solar_storms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyake_event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event 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: 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 difficulties to participate in an MRI study that includes a 10-week long free reading intervention. Participation involves pre and post sessions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Participants will be compensated for both testing sessions. If interested, please contact: call: 205-202-0616 email: cas-cbalab@uab.edu RESOURCES DEA to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk drug, reports say Algorithms help people see and correct their biases, study shows Rajesh Kana’s The Neuroscience of Autism: Tracing the A-Z of Cutting-edge ASD Research 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.

Explore the challenges of perfect parenting and storing grid energy with mechanical batteries. Learn about a caterpillar-like soft robot, parental burnout, and mental health struggles. Discover compressed air energy storage as an innovative solution. Enjoy a whimsical debate on converting cheese to energy and engage with listeners.

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

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 find a new organelle evolving Evidence for endosymbiosis Chloroplast | Wikipedia Mitochondria | Wikipedia 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: 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 Hero Quest Spatial Navigation in Childhood and Aging Why do some people always get lost? https://interestingengineering.com/science/moon-keeps-drifting-away-from-earth Our moon has been drifting away from Earth for 2.5 billion years | Space Why Total Solar Eclipses Will Be a Thing of the Past in 600 Million Years | The Weather Channel 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: 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: 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.