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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.

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.