On today’s episode, we go back through 2020 to bring you some news items you may have missed: Super detailed photos of the sun! A new sparrow song has gone viral in Canada! Mars has Marsquakes! And a way to translate thoughts directly into text. All that and more today on All Around Science.

• ARTICLE: See the most detailed photos of the sun ever taken
• ARTICLE: A 'Viral' New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune
• ARTICLE: NASA's robot that's exploring Mars has detected hundreds of 'marsquakes' on the Red Planet
• ARTICLE: Neural implants plus AI turn sentence-length thoughts to text

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On today’s episode: How do we learn it’s better to give than to receive? Have we discovered a new solar system superhighway? If the north pole moves, does that mean Santa has to move too?

All that and more today on All Around Science...

• ARTICLE: Is It Better to Give Than Receive?
• ARTICLE: Fast Superhighway Through the Solar System Discovered

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On today’s episode: Scientists are still learning what causes leaves to change color. Evidence for the hypothesis that water is actually two coexisting liquids! Eyeballs are really neat! All that and more today on All Around Science...

• ARTICLE: Which factors trigger leaf die-off in Autumn?
• ARTICLE: Two liquids of water exist

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On today’s episode: DeepMind breaks more barriers with their protein-predicting AI AlphaFold. Them scientists at NASA have got MOXIE… and other ways to get oxygen too. And how to make a protein! All that and more today on All Around Science...

• ARTICLE: 'It will change everything': DeepMind's AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures
• ARTICLE: Mars' underground brine could be a good source of oxygen

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On today’s episode: AstraZeneca flubbed their vaccine trial… but can we learn something? Once we get a COVID vaccine, immunity may last longer than we originally expected. The story of a star: from birth to black hole. All that and more today on All Around Science...

• ARTICLE: AstraZeneca's best COVID vaccine result was a fluke. Experts have uestions
• ARTICLE: Immunity to the Coronavirus May Last Years, New Data Hint

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On today’s episode: How have stars affected our trees? New research makes us question what we know about the gender roles of hunter gatherers. What are isotopes and why do they matter? All that and more today on All Around Science...

• ARTICLE: Tree rings may hold clues to impacts of distant supernovae on Earth
• ARTICLE: Early big-game hunters of the Americas were female, researchers suggest

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On today’s episode: Midnight snacking and your midsection. Newborn baby brains appear to be primed to learn how to read. And everything you need to know about that new Pfizer vaccine everyone’s talking about. All that and more today on All Around Science...

• ARTICLE: Squeezing most of your calories in early doesn't impact weight loss
• ARTICLE: Humans are born with brains 'prewired' to see words
• Pfizer press release

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On today’s episode: Neurocientists find that political bias affects neural patterns. Turns out there might NOT be life on Venus? Bummer! Tokamaks! Weird birds? Halloween costume? Fusion reactor? What are they? All that and more today on All Around Science...

• ARTICLE: Hot-button words trigger conservatives and liberals differently
• ARTICLE: Doubts over a 'possible sign of life' on Venus show how science works
• Further reading on Hydrogen Plasma

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On today’s episode: We’ve figured out how to teach robots to do the laundry even faster! We found water on the moon….again? So what is CRISPR-Cas9 anyway? How does it work? All that and more today on All Around Science...

• ARTICLE: Dog training methods help researchers teach robots to learn new tricks
• ARTICLE: NASA's SOFIA Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon

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• ARTICLE: Babies Prefer What They Choose Even When Random
• ARTICLE: Voyager Spacecraft Detect an Increase in the Density of Space Outside the Solar System
• Vihart's Fibonacci Videos
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
• Numberphile - The Golden Ratio (why it is so irrational)

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