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...

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• 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

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On today’s episode: Some tiny robot news! Baby great white sharks. The cicada double brood swarm is coming… are you ready? All that and more today on All Around Science...

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• Novel aerial observations of a possible newborn white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) in Southern California | Environmental Biology of Fishes
• https://bioone.org/journals/copeia/volume-108/issue-1/OT-19-233/The-Smallest-Known-Free-Living-White-Shark-Carcharodon-carcharias-Lamniformes/10.1643/OT-19-233.short
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• https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/us/cicadas-emergence-broods-xix-xiii-scn/index.html
• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2022/09/25/loudest-animal-in-the-world/7895928001/
• https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22362042/cicada-brood-x-map-2021
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicadas#Evolution_and_speciation

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On today’s episode: Some tiny robot news! We’re sending LISA to space, and she’s gonna detect black hole collisions for us! Will nuclear fusion power our future? All that and more today on All Around Science...

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• LIGO goes to space: ESA to proceed with LISA gravitational wave detector
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_confinement_fusion
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worlds-largest-fusion-project-is-in-big-trouble-new-documents-reveal/
• https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/12/26/inside-the-worlds-first-reactor-that-will-power-earth-using-the-same-nuclear-reaction-as-t
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• https://www.science.org/content/article/fusion-power-may-run-fuel-even-gets-started
• https://www.science.org/content/article/first-plasma-fired-world-s-largest-fusion-reactor

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On today’s episode: Some tiny robot news! Big, giant, large-scale farms have a big, giant carbon footprint… but maybe not as much as that rooftop garden across the street. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Mini-robots modeled on insects may be smallest, lightest, fastest ever developed | WSU Insider
• How a metal with a memory will shape our future on Mars
• https://www.explainthatstuff.com/how-shape-memory-works.html
• Urban agriculture’s carbon footprint can be worse than that of large farms
• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44254-023-00017-3

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On today’s episode: Scientists tracked the 20 year journey of a mammoth that lived 14,000 years ago! How do migrating birds know where they’re going? Quantum mechanics! All that and more today on All Around Science...

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• New study tracks a mammoth’s travels across Alaska
• Magnetic sensitivity of cryptochrome 4 from a migratory songbird | Nature
• How quantum mechanics help birds find their way
• How Migrating Birds Use Quantum Effects to Navigate | Scientific American
• Magnetic field effects on plant growth, development, and evolution
• Cryptochrome-mediated light responses in plants - PMC
• Magnetic bones in human sinuses
• The magnetite-based receptors in the beak of birds and their role in avian navigation - PMC
• European Robin - Erithacus rubecula - Birds of the World
• Cryptochromes in mammals: a magnetoreception misconception? - PMC
• Electromagnetic noise leaves birds lost in migration, study reports
• Interaction of magnetite-based receptors in the beak with the visual system underlying 'fixed direction' responses in birds | Frontiers in Zoology

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On today’s episode: Evolution may not be quite as random as we thought. A new drug is being developed to help deal with the problem of antibiotic resistance. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Blue Whale Size Comparison
• Evolution is not as random as previously thought, finds a new study - University of Nottingham
• Experimental antibiotic kills deadly superbug, opens whole new class of drugs
• A novel antibiotic class targeting the lipopolysaccharide transporter | Nature
• A new antibiotic traps lipopolysaccharide in its intermembrane transporter | Nature
• How can we solve the antibiotic resistance crisis? | YouTube
• Overview of Gram-Negative Bacteria
• Gram-negative bacteria | Wikipedia
• WHO publishes list of bacteria for which new antibiotics are urgently needed

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On today’s episode: The cutest version of humans and animals working together! We know dark matter exists; can it create dark stars? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Honeyguide Birds Learn Culturally Distinct Calls Made by Honey Hunters
• https://www.newsweek.com/physics-can-dark-matter-cool-thousands-clumps-hot-galactic-halos-797546
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/05/10/when-did-the-universe-become-transparent-to-light/?sh=7327cb9b1924
• https://www.sciencenews.org/article/james-webb-telescope-stars-dark-matter
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpYWK4x5rUA&ab_channel=Dr.Becky
• Could Dark Matter Stars Exist?
• https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2305762120
• https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25934570-800-dark-stars-have-we-finally-found-a-weird-sun-powered-by-dark-matter/
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On today’s episode: How much does light color affect your sleep cycle? And the 2024 calendar is already full of space missions all over the solar system! All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Light color is less important for the internal clock than originally thought | University of Basel
• From the Moon’s south pole to an ice-covered ocean world, several exciting space missions are slated for launch in 2024

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On today’s episode: The plants have been screaming all this time and we haven’t been listening! A millenia-old mystery has been solved! Long COVID… what have scientists figured out about it so far? And the superstar of 2023 has made strides toward better outcomes for some of the most challenging cancer cases. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Plants emit ultrasonic popping sounds when stressed
• Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery
• An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar | Cambridge Archaeological Journal
• Unraveling long COVID: Here's what scientists who study the illness want to find out
• AI model can help determine where a patient’s cancer arose | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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On today’s episode: That gene editing wonder technology, CRISPR, is finally curing diseases! What REALLY killed off the dinosaurs? All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• FDA approves first CRISPR therapy—here’s how it works against sickle cell
• https://scitechdaily.com/volcanoes-or-asteroid-ai-ends-debate-over-dinosaur-extinction-event/
• https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/more-meteorite-new-clues-about-demise-dinosaurs-353027
• https://www.britannica.com/science/K-T-extinction
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Traps#Effect_on_mass_extinctions_and_climate
• https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosaurs-ancient-fossils/extinction/deccan-traps-volcanoes
• https://scitechdaily.com/what-really-killed-dinosaurs-and-other-life-on-earth-maybe-not-an-asteroid-strike/
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825200000374
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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st_2C_Wrw4A&ab_channel=FactsinMotion
• https://www.astronomy.com/science/asteroid-dust-found-at-chicxulub-crater-confirms-cause-of-dinosaurs-extinction/
• https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/events/cowen1b.html#:~:text=Iridium%20occurs%20in%20normal%20seafloor,arisen%20in%20some%20unusual%20way.
• https://www.space.com/19681-dinosaur-killing-asteroid-chicxulub-crater.html

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