On today’s episode: Despite what you might be reading in the news… aspartame is safe! And it’s part three in our series on the four fundamental forces; let’s talk about the weak force! All that and more today on All Around Science...

SOURCES

• Aspartame and cancer: Why you really shouldn’t worry about this
• Aspartame and Cancer
• What Is the Weak Force? | LiveScience
• The Mystery of the Matter Asymmetry
• Do solar neutrinos affect nuclear decay on Earth? | Physics World
• The Weak Nuclear Force: Through the looking glass | Fermilab YouTube

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On today’s episode: A lake in Canada has earned the Golden Spike. How do the protons and neutrons in an atom GLUE themselves together? … The Strong Force. All that and more today on All Around Science...

SOURCES

• Canada's Crawford Lake chosen as 'golden spike' to mark proposed new epoch | CBC News

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On today’s episode: Scientists made a telescope out of pulsars and now we can see HUGE gravitational waves! Magnets. How DO they work? All that and more today on All Around Science...

SOURCES

• NANOGrav hears “hum” of gravitational wave background, louder than expected
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration FAQ
• 10.1: Relativity Requires Magnetism | LibreTexts Physics

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On today’s episode: What is the true cost of all this wildfire smoke? Glass is a fascinating substance of contradicting properties! Let’s learn about it! All that and more today on All Around Science...

SOURCES

• Wildfire smoke downwind affects health, wealth and mortality | Cornell Chronicle

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On today’s episode: Soon you might be able get your blood pressure by pinching your smartphone. Psilocybin and other psychedelics might be a major advancement in treating some mental illnesses. All that and more today on All Around Science...

SOURCES

• Ultra low-cost smartphone attachment measures blood pressure at home
• Ethical principles of traditional Indigenous medicine to guide western psychedelic research and practice
• Neurotransmitter Receptors and Their Effects
• Psychedelics and Neuroplasticity: A Systematic Review Unraveling the Biological Underpinnings of Psychedelics
• The Impact of Studying Brain Plasticity
• Quality of Acute Psychedelic Experience Predicts Therapeutic Efficacy of Psilocybin for Treatment-Resistant Depression
• Psychedelic-inspired drugs could relieve depression without causing hallucinations
• Therapeutic use of psilocybin: Practical considerations for dosing and administration

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On today’s episode: No one is honest anymore! Or are they…? Blueberries aren’t blue, blue flowers aren’t blue, most things aren’t really blue… Why is blue so hard to find? All that and more today on All Around Science...

SOURCES

• Morality is declining, right? Scientists say that idea is an illusion
• Why is blue so easy to make in a lab?

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On today’s episode: To celebrate our 144th episdoe, we answered all your gross science questions: earwax, clogged pipes, boogers... There was just so much it went on to a 145th episode! All that and more today on All Around Science...

SOURCES

• https://atlasbiomed.com/blog/wet-earwax-dry-earwax-and-earwax-colours-of-earwax/ 

• https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326093#earwax-textures

• Salivary mucins protect surfaces from colonization by cariogenic bacteria
• Nose picking and nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus

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On today’s episode: To celebrate our 144th episdoe, we answered all your gross science questions: toejam, poop, pee... All that and more today on All Around Science...

SOURCES

• https://www.livescience.com/37664-human-urine-colors-rainbow.html

• https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/313779#causes

• https://www.ucsfhealth.org/medical-tests/hemoglobinuria-test

• https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/red-brown-green-urine-colors-and-what-they-might-mean

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On today’s episode: Vaccines are in the news! And it’s not COVID this time. Whether or not you find them appealing, there’s hope in the research to save bananas. All that and more today on All Around Science...

• Long-sought universal flu vaccine: mRNA-based candidate enters clinical trial
• BANANA SOURCES
  • https://asm.org/Articles/2021/June/Clone-Wars-How-Fusarium-Fungi-Control-the-Banana-I
  • https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PDIS.2004.88.6.580
  • https://asm.org/Articles/2021/June/Clone-Wars-How-Fusarium-Fungi-Control-the-Banana-I
  • https://asm.org/Articles/2021/June/Clone-Wars-How-Fusarium-Fungi-Control-the-Banana-I
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5684404/
  • https://www.qut.edu.au/news?id=173568
  • https://www.bonappetit.com/story/banana-fungus-monoculture-extinction

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On today’s episode: It’s happening… Scientists are starting to be able to read our minds! We might owe the existence of life to quasars. All that and more today on All Around Science...

• Evidence of conscious-like activity in the dying brain | Michigan Medicine
• The potential for a plastic recycling facility to release microplastic pollution and possible filtration remediation effectiveness
• Recycling in the U.S. Is Broken. How Do We Fix It?
• How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

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