On today’s episode: Bee vitamins! Like, for bees! We’re running out of water in the ground. How can we get it back? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Saving bees with ‘superfoods’: new engineered supplement found to boost colony reproduction | University of Oxford
•  Engineered yeast provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybees | Nature
• A Bit of Good News: It’s Possible to Turn Around A Groundwater Crisis | Ars Technica
• Ground Water Atlas of the United States | USGS
• Map of Ground Water Recovery Sites

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: It might be time to sleep in separate beds. We talk about how our very own Bobby Frankenburger discovered his passion for science. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Your partner may wake you up six times a night – but does it matter? | New Scientist

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: What makes a stable star start to flicker wildly? Electrons are really a lot slower than you think they are. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• UW astronomers collect rare evidence of two planets colliding

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: There’s a new ant species that is all queens. We answer listener questions about hair! All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Artemis III not going to the moon
• Every ant is a queen in this parasitic species — and they reproduce by cloning themselves and hijacking other ant colonies | Live Science
• https://elifesciences.org/articles/76911
• https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230310-why-dont-humans-have-fur
• https://www.cbhs.com.au/mind-and-body/blog/why-men-are-hairy
• https://sons.co.uk/blogs/learn/hairy-subject-why-are-men-hairier-than-women
• https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20131004-why-do-men-grow-facial-hair
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/07/19/dear-science-why-does-the-hair-on-my-head-grow-longer-than-the-hair-on-my-body/
• https://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/hair-care/scalp-treatments/question100.htm#:~:text=When%20the%20hair%20follicle%20enters,links%20on%20the%20next%20page.&text=Your%20browser%20can't%20play%20this%20video.&text=An%20error%20occurred.,is%20disabled%20in%20your%20browser.
• https://sandiegozoowildlifealliance.org/story-hub/zoonooz/across-the-spectrum
• https://riverlegacy.org/blog/how-come-there-are-no-blue-or-green-mammals#:~:text=It%20is%20believed%20that%20most,blue%20and%20green%20at%20you!
• https://animaldiversity.org/collections/mammal_anatomy/hair/#:~:text=The%20color%20of%20hair%20is,characterized%20by%20different%20banding%20patterns

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: Worried about heart attacks? Try oatmeal! And we reach into the mailbag again and answer your questions about boomerangs and airpods. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level — University of Bonn
• https://www.healthline.com/health/hdl-vs-ldl-cholesterol#hdl-vs-ldl
• Air Quality Index (AQI) Basics | AirNow
• Technical Assistance Document for the Reporting of Daily Air Quality – the Air Quality Index (AQI) | EPA

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: Elephants have whiskers too! And we talk about the science of burnout. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Unique structure of elephant whiskers give them built-in sensing “intelligence” | Ars Technica
• https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=FI2ADwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&ots=oD06mQ3Vvm&sig=wexUiegvScQl-GIWZqVQaWs8hBM#v=onepage&q&f=false
• https://www.scribd.com/document/685389638/Maslach-burnout-Inventory-Standardized-Questionnaire-and-Scoring
• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10775-018-9364-7 
• https://www.wilmarschaufeli.nl/publications/Schaufeli/160.pdf 
• http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/60531/1/146.pdf#page=56
• https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10615806.2020.1797695

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: A new milestone for the Perseverance rover! There’s some promising research into how psychedelics could help treat PTSD All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• NASA’s Perseverance Rover Completes First AI-Planned Drive on Mars | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
• Psychedelics may rewire the brain to treat PTSD. Scientists are finally beginning to understand how. | Live Science
• Psychedelic drug ayahuasca could treat PTSD, early studies hint. But exactly how it works isn't clear. | Live Science
• MDMA-assisted therapy for severe PTSD: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 study | Nature Medicine
• Investigating the safety and tolerability of single-dose psilocybin for post-traumatic stress disorder: A nonrandomized open-label clinical trial | Journal of Psychopharmacology

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: Want to smell a mummy being embalmed!? Well now you can! How, exactly, do you launch a rocket? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Nasal spray could prevent infections from any flu strain | New Scientist
• Museums incorporate “scent of the afterlife” into Egyptian exhibits | Ars Technica
• https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/01/31/countdown-begins-for-artemis-ii-wet-dress-rehearsal/

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: There’s news on the long term effects of the keto diet, and it’s not great. We go on an archaeological journey to learn about some old wooden tools. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• https://news.med.virginia.edu/research/scientists-reveal-how-ketogenic-diet-protects-against-seizures-when-drugs-fail/
• https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/fatty-liver-disease-masld/symptoms-causes/syc-20354567
• https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/are-you-getting-too-much-protein
• Stick shaped by ancient humans is the oldest known wooden tool | New Scientist
• This 67,800-year-old hand stencil is the world’s oldest human-made art | Ars Technica
• Some of the oldest harpoons ever found reveal Indigenous people in Brazil were hunting whales 5,000 years ago | Live Science
• Oldest stone tools pre-date earliest humans | BBC
• Marathousa 1: a new Middle Pleistocene archaeological site from Greece | Antiquity
• Locating Sites | Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center

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: Cows are using tools now? And we sit down with Logan Larson for a discussion on the science of coaching. All that and more today on All Around Science...

Logan's Coaching Website: https://www.powerfulclarity.com/

RESOURCES

Meet Veronika, the tool-using cow | Ars Technica

https://coachingfederation.org/

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.