On today’s episode: This year’s been big for advances in cancer vaccines! Good chocolate might be all about the right bacteria. If you DON’T think bats are terrifying animals… you just wait… We didn’t invent booze, and we’re not the only species consuming it. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/progress-cancer-vaccines-really
• https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02-vaccine-pancreatic-cancer.html
• https://ufhealth.org/news/2025/surprising-finding-could-pave-way-for-universal-cancer-vaccine
• https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cancer-immunotherapy-mrna-covid-vaccines
• What makes chocolate taste so good? It’s the microbes
• Bats eat the birds they pluck from the sky while on the wing
• In the wild, chimps likely ingest the equivalent of several alcoholic drinks every day - Berkeley News

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

http://andrewallenmusic.com

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On today’s episode: Could long COVID be caused by reviving latent infections? Food allergies in children have been decreasing… but why? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Could Hidden Infections Be Fueling Long COVID? | Rutgers University.
• Guidelines for Early Food Introduction and Patterns of Food Allergy | American Academy of Pediatrics
• Randomized Trial of Peanut Consumption in Infants at Risk for Peanut Allergy | NEJM
• Common loss-of-function variants of the epidermal barrier protein filaggrin are a major predisposing factor for atopic dermatitis | Nature Genetics
• Early Peanut Exposure May Explain Fall in Child Allergies—But Is It Safe? | Newsweek
• Food Allergy Management and Prevention Support Tool for Infants and Toddlers
• Advice to feed babies peanuts early and often helped thousands of kids avoid allergies | PBS

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: Scientists found sugar on space rocks! If you think no one knows how to chew right, you might have misophonia. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Samples
• https://www.soquiet.org/misophonia-survey
• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9180704/
• https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2022.841816/full
• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6034066/

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: Maybe a kid could make a painting like that. But maybe you couldn’t. We talk to Dr. Niki Ackermans about the science and history of headbutting and brain injury. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• 20 GeV halo-like excess of the Galactic diffuse emission and implications for dark matter annihilation | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
• Study: Kids’ drip paintings more like Pollock’s than those of adults - Ars Technica
• A history of thought on brain injury in head-hitting animals
• Dr. Niki Ackermans' Website

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: Tiny drug robots! We learn about the history of artificial blood. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Tiny robots swim through blood, deliver drugs — and then dissolve 
• Teeny robots could deliver drugs to specific spots - Futurity
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s44303-024-00007-5
• What Do Blood Cells Do? 
• First-in-human phase 1 trial of hemoglobin vesicles as artificial red blood cells developed for use as a transfusion alternative | NIH
• Artificial Blood That Could Work for All Blood Types in Trials | Newsweek

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: Sometimes a comet is just a comet. We look into why Canada has lost its measles elimination status. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• What we know about Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS | The Planetary Society
• Comet 3I/ATLAS | NASA
• https://www.alberta.ca/measles
• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/3/why-is-measles-spreading-in-canada-mexico-and-the-us
• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-s-measles-outbreaks-surpass-case-counts-reported-for-entire-u-s-1.7584490
• https://www.cdc.gov/measles/signs-symptoms/index.html
• https://www.dal.ca/news/2025/03/27/measles-outbreak-expert.html

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: Bobby learned about a fantastic musical podcast about climate change and woodland nymphs that he thinks you'll enjoy. Take a listen, it'll be worth your time for sure.

METRA

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: Neanderthals drawing with crayons! We finish out our series on the Nobel Prizes with the Nobel Prize in physiology & medicine. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• This $20,000 Neo Robot Will Clean Your Home, But There’s A Catch (And It’s Kind Of Terrifying)
• 42,000-year-old ochre crayons reveal Neanderthals engaged in symbolic behavior | Archaeology News Online Magazine
• Nobel Prizes 2025

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: LLMs think you’re right and your friend is wrong. This week we look at this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• The Red Sea that vanished and the catastrophic flood that brought it back | ScienceDaily
• Are you the asshole? Of course not!—quantifying LLMs’ sycophancy problem - Ars Technica
• Nobel Prizes 2025

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: An update on one of last year’s Ig Nobel prizes! We go through this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics! All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• “Butt breathing” might soon be a real medical treatment - Ars Technica
• Nobel Prizes 2025

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.