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On today’s episode: Taking breaks helps your brain learn things! We’ve learned a little more about our immune system’s team of assassins; natural killer cells. There’s a lot of hype around cryptocurrencies right now… but how do they work? All that and more today on All Around Science.

• ARTICLE: Study shows how taking short breaks may help our brains learn new skills
• ARTICLE: SKI Scientists Learn What Fuels the 'Natural Killser' of the Immune System

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On today’s episode: Morning waking time seems to be related to risk of depression. Giraffes have high blood pressure, but they don’t seem to care! Zombie fires are lurking in boreal forests! All that and more today on All Around Science.

• ARTICLE: Morning waking time seems to be related to risk of depression
• ARTICLE: Heads up! The cardiovascular secrets of giraffes
• ARTICLE: Five years after Fort McMurray fire, researchers warn of wildfire risk from peatlands

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On today’s episode: Honeybees are spreading viruses because of cannibalism. Psychadelics might reduce the effects of stress. And we talk to our real life scientist friend, Niki, about how we use animals to study brain injury.

All that and more today on All Around Science.

• ARTICLE: Honeybee 'Trojan horse' virus relies on bees' habit of cannibalizing their young
• ARTICLE: Non-hallucinogenic psychedelic analog reverses effects of stress in mouse study
• Dr. Nicole Ackermans Website

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On today’s episode: The future of farming is...wriggly? Scientists force mice to socialize by using MIND CONTROL. Fungus farming ants have mastered some of the agricultural problems we humans have yet to solve. All that and more today on All Around Science.

• ARTICLE: Kelp, maggots and mycoprotein among future foods that must be mass-farmed to combat malnutrition
• ARTICLE: Researchers force two mice to hang out and induce FOMO in a third

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On today’s episode: New evidence in how to maintain long term weight loss! Real Life Holograms like in Star Wars! We revisit NASA’s iconic Voyager missions, which are still revealing truths about the universe. All that and more today on All Around Science.

• ARTICLE: Researchers find the secret behind maintaining a healthy weight loss
• ARTICLE: Hologram Experts Can Now Create Real-Life Images That Move in the Air

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On today’s episode: Bats in helium fly weird. Invisible lightning is creating invisible, air-cleaning substances! And one of the world's oldest science experiments involves secret treasure maps!  All that and more today on All Around Science.

• ARTICLE: Researchers raise bats in helium-rich air to check how they sense sound
• ARTICLE: Lightning and subvisible discharges produce molecules that clean the atmosphere
• ARTICLE: One of the World's Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up From the Dirt

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On today’s episode: Can video games lower risk of depression? Physicists didn’t see this one coming! And now we might have to invent new physics to explain it. And we dig into how your cells pull strings to change gene expression!  All that and more today on All Around Science.

• ARTICLE: Boys who play video games have lower depression risk
• ARTICLE: Elusive particle may point to undiscovered physics

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On today’s episode: Scientists have discovered a way to switch genes off and then back on again! Flowers may not be able to count, but we have new insight into why their growth tends to follow the Fibonacci sequence. And finally… buckle up… we’re going to the moon!  All that and more today on All Around Science.

• ARTICLE: A CRISPR Genetic On-Off Switch
• ARTICLE: Researchers determine why the spirals in gerbera inflorescences follow the Fibonacci sequence

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