On today’s episode: Public trust in science is down… why is that? Sometimes the earth quakes. Why? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES   Trust in science down; trends worst in minorities, Republicans  https://www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-geology/earth-hazards/earthquakes/what-causes-earthquakes/  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOCxNVDiOnE&ab;_channel=SciShow  https://www.mtu.edu/geo/community/seismology/learn/seismology-study/  https://www.mtu.edu/geo/community/seismology/learn/earthquake-cause/  http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/en/knowledge/things-to-know/causes-of-earthquakes/general/#:~:text=Earthquakes%20are%20caused%20by%20a,in%20a%20sudden%2C%20jerky%20movement.  http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/geology/grocha/plates/platetec16.htm  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Mercalli_intensity_scale#mmi-12  https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Plate-Tectonics/Chap1-Pioneers-of-Plate-Tectonics/Alfred-Wegener    THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL  http://andrewallenmusic.com

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On today’s episode: Playing sports is good for you; turns out, watching other people play is good for you too! Scientists have discovered a whole new part of a cell that seems to be evolving as we speak! All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES  Zoe's Fundraiser - tinyurl.com/helpthezoo The Joy of Sports: How Watching Sports Can Boost Well-Being – Waseda University  Researchers find a new organelle evolving  Evidence for endosymbiosis Chloroplast | Wikipedia Mitochondria | Wikipedia  CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady  THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL  http://andrewallenmusic.com

Shoving Bacteria Into Your Cells

On today’s episode: Your bad sense of direction is probably b/c you didn’t explore your neighborhood enough as a kid. How to publish a scientific paper. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES   Evidence for a unitary structure of spatial cognition beyond general intelligence Explaining World-Wide Variation in Navigation Ability from Millions of People: Citizen Science Project Sea Hero Quest  Spatial Navigation in Childhood and Aging  Why do some people always get lost?  https://interestingengineering.com/science/moon-keeps-drifting-away-from-earth  Our moon has been drifting away from Earth for 2.5 billion years | Space  Why Total Solar Eclipses Will Be a Thing of the Past in 600 Million Years | The Weather Channel  CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady  THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL  http://andrewallenmusic.com

Publishing Your Science

On today’s episode: Good news for huggers! And non-huggers! Should we build new particle accelerators? And if so, what kind? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES   New study highlights the benefit of touch on mental and physical health - Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience - Master the Mind US particle physicists want to build a muon collider — Europe should pitch in  CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady  THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL  http://andrewallenmusic.com

What's the Point of Particle Colliders?

On today’s episode: Apparently climate change is stealing an entire second from our day! How exactly do memories work? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES   Taylor Swift concerts cause earthquakes  Climate change is delaying world clocks' need for a 'negative leap second' https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11028 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaw4325  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6cg0KIwozg&t;=351s&ab;_channel=SciShowPsych https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29384-4 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7577560/ https://picower.mit.edu/news/engrams-emerging-basic-unit-memory https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/how-memory-works https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/how-memories-are-formed/  https://news.mit.edu/2017/neuroscientists-identify-brain-circuit-necessary-memory-formation-0406  https://qbi.uq.edu.au/brain-basics/memory/how-are-memories-formed  https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/where-do-memories-form-and-how-do-we-know The Legacy of Patient H.M. for Neuroscience - PMC  CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady  THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL  http://andrewallenmusic.com

How Do We Make Memories?

On today’s episode: There’s a neurological condition that makes everyone around you look like goblins and pigs! Scientists are testing a new anti-tick pill for humans! All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES   If Faces Appear Distorted, You Could Have This Condition | Dartmouth  A century of prosopometamorphopsia studies - ScienceDirect  https://www.fda.gov/patients/drug-development-process/step-3-clinical-research  https://ir.tarsusrx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tarsus-announces-positive-topline-results-carpo-phase-2a-proof  https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/tick-killing-pill-shows-promising-results-in-human-trial/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotilaner https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/6/21-1335_article  CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady  THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL  http://andrewallenmusic.com

Earthquakes

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