All Around Science

On today’s episode: Good news! It seems that public schools are actually helping to prevent COVID transmission! Best practices when combating the spread of fake news on social media. And what is “motivated reasoning” and how does it lead to conspiracy thinking? All that and more today on All Around Science.

• ARTICLE: Basic pandemic safety limits spread in schools
• ARTICLE: To combat false news, correct after reading | MIT

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On today’s episode: COVID dropped carbon emissions in 2020, but the real climate win lies in what we do next. Millipedes that stop trains in their tracks! And the science behind how we know that humans are changing Earth’s climate. All that and more today on All Around Science.

• ARTICLE: COVID curbed carbon emissions in 2020 -- but not by much
• ARTICLE: Coronavirus: Tracking how the world's 'green recovery' plans aim to cut emissions
• ARTICLE: Mystery of massive, train-stopping millipede swarms solved

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On today’s episode, baby Megalodon was Yoooooge.The weird and wonderful genome of the majestic platypus.And scientists debate about a 150 year old rule about animals. All that and more today on All Around Science.

• ARTICLE: Newborn megalodon sharks were larger than most adult humans.
• ARTICLE: How Earth's oddest mammal got to be so bizarre.
• ARTICLE: Will climate change make animals darker -- or lighter?

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On today’s episode spiders might be building a tempting oasis to trap their pre. New flexible materials inspired by squids! What we know about the UK and South African SARS CoV 2 variants All that and more today on All Around Science.

• ARTICLE: These spiders may sew leaves into fake shelters to lure frogs to their doom
• ARTICLE: 3D-printed smart gel changes shape when exposed to light
• ARTICLE: SARS-CoV-2 Variants

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On today’s episode Satellites made out of wood? Bronze Age food trade may have been more global than we thought! Archaeologists found an ancient Roman fast food restaurant! All that and more today on All Around Science.

• ARTICLE: Japan developing wooden satellites to cut space junk
• ARTICLE: The aroma of distant worlds
• ARTICLE: Archaeologists excavate ancient Roman takeout counter at Pompeii

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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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