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

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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

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On today’s episode: Apparently climate change is stealing an entire second from our day! How exactly do memories work? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Taylor Swift concerts cause earthquakes
• Climate change is delaying world clocks' need for a 'negative leap second'
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• https://news.mit.edu/2017/neuroscientists-identify-brain-circuit-necessary-memory-formation-0406
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• https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/where-do-memories-form-and-how-do-we-know
• The Legacy of Patient H.M. for Neuroscience - PMC

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

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On today’s episode: There’s a neurological condition that makes everyone around you look like goblins and pigs! Scientists are testing a new anti-tick pill for humans! All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• If Faces Appear Distorted, You Could Have This Condition | Dartmouth
• A century of prosopometamorphopsia studies - ScienceDirect
• https://www.fda.gov/patients/drug-development-process/step-3-clinical-research
• https://ir.tarsusrx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tarsus-announces-positive-topline-results-carpo-phase-2a-proof
• https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/tick-killing-pill-shows-promising-results-in-human-trial/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotilaner
• https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/6/21-1335_article

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

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On today’s episode: Scientists have found a bunch of new bacteria in our guts that help us digest plants! NASA’s many solutions to the engineering problem of pooping in space. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Urban humans have lost much of their ability to digest plants
• Cryptic diversity of cellulose-degrading gut bacteria in industrialized humans
• The world's first animal was probably a carnivore
• https://www.reddit.com/r/TIHI/comments/eivocv/thanks_i_hate_nasas_fecal_containment_device/
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• https://www.popsci.com/how-your-body-betrays-you-in-space/
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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1wwzwvfsC0&ab_channel=NASA
• https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19760005580
• https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/nasa-astronaut-had-to-pack-poop-with-her-hand-in-space-heres-why-1859627
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CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

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On today’s episode: A classic science demo may be able to generate electricity! There are many dangers to going to space… and one of them is radiation. How are we protecting our astronauts? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Article Drinking-bird-enabled triboelectric hydrovoltaic generator
• 'Drinking bird' toys upgraded to generate clean energy from water
• DB-THG powering 20 LCDs (Credit: Device, Wu Zheng Qin et al)
• Shields up: New ideas might make active shielding viable
• Space Faring: The Radiation Challenge - NASA
• What Is Ionizing Radiation?
• Radiation Effects on Cells & DNA
• This Is How Orion Astronauts Might Protect Themselves From Radiation Storms
• Plasma bubble could protect astronauts on Mars trip
• Radiation Shielding Techniques for Human Spaceflight

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

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On today’s episode: ChatGPT has beaten humans in tests on creative thinking. And it looks like whiptail lizards are just having babies…but something incredible is going on. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• AI outperforms humans in standardized tests of creative potential
• https://www.nature.com/articles/6884440
• https://www.biologyonline.com/dictionary/apomixis
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5499200/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV0UqyfoID0&ab_channel=NitikaJain
• https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1102811108
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27802173/
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5499200/
• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/parthenogenesis-how-animals-have-virgin-births?loggedin=true&rnd=1709485440216
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3900772/

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

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On today’s episode: A new treatment for people with severe food allergies. We talk about the science of sleep with Dr. Alex Reynolds. All that and more today on All Around Science...

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

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On today’s episode: A snapshot of a moving electron? How much energy is needed to make the sounds we hear? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• First-ever atomic freeze-frame of liquid water
• https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceadviser-first-ever-atomic-freeze-frame-liquid-water
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e83QRGoRCo&t=313s&ab_channel=PBSSpaceTime
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour
• https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/what-are-lufs.html#:~:text=The%20first%20step%20in%20calculating,pass%20filter%20at%20100%20Hz.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipBXHHnud3E&t=330s
• https://www.acoustic-glossary.co.uk/sound-energy.htm#:~:text=Sound%20Energy%20Definition&text=The%20Sound%20Energy%20Unit%20is,decibels%2C%20neatly%20solves%20this%20problem.
• https://pressbooks.pub/sound/chapter/frequency-and-loudness-perception/#:~:text=If%20a%20sound%20is%20played,the%20intensities%20are%20the%20same.
• https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/28163/whats-the-shortest-sound-perceptible-to-the-human-ear

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

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On today’s episode: Microbes are the new stars of CSI: Miami, and Maura reaches into the mailbag and answers your burning questions! All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Scientists identify “universal network” of microbes for decomposing flesh
• Why Do We See Visual Patterns When Rubbing Our Eyes? (explainplease.co.uk)
• Why do you see colors when you close or rub eyes | Ohio State Medical Center (osu.edu)
• Why do you see waves, colours and lights when you rub your eyes? (sciencenorway.no)
• Purkynĕ's description of pressure phosphenes and modern neurophysiological studies on the generation of phosphenes by eyeball deformation
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8153716/#:~:text=INTRODUCTION,%2C%20sandstorms%2C%20or%20volcanic%20plumes. 
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095034920300453#:~:text=The%20studies%20indicate%20that%20the,is%20called%20Aeolian%20electric%20field.
• https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/23
• https://www.science.org/content/article/static-electricity-strengthens-desert-dust-storms
• https://physicsworld.com/a/contact-electrification-explained-at-last/
• Vertigo While Sleeping: Tips and Treatment | Sleep Foundation

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

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