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On today’s episode: It’s tourism season at the red planet; China and UAE have successfully sent orbiters to Mars. Why do we care so much about water on Mars? The Perseverance rover is an incredible instrument of interplanetary science! All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: China launches ambitious Tianwen-1 Mars rover mission ARTICLE: Spectacular video released from China's first Mars mission - Spaceflight Now THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

On today’s episode: Life on Venus? Mmmmmmaybe not. An AI learns to play the piano just by watching someone’s hands! Let’s talk about how bad your memory really is. All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Scientific community on report of a strange chemical at Venus: Probably not ARTICLE: 'Audeo' teaches artificial intelligence to play piano THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

On today’s episode: Cats love catnip, and mosquitoes hate it! How does COVID get into the brain? And we dig into what happens inside the brains of those suffering from addiction. All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE: Why cats are crazy for catnip ARTICLE: COVID-19 virus enters the brain, research strongly suggests ARTICLE: Understanding Addiction | Harvard Health READING: The Neurobiology of Substance Use, Misuse, and Addiction THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

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. LINKS: ARTICLE: Basic pandemic safety limits spread in schools ARTICLE: To combat false news, correct after reading | MIT THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

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. LINKS: 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 THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

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. LINKS: 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? THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

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. LINKS: 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 THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

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. LINKS: ARTICLE: Japan developing wooden satellites to cut space junk ARTICLE: The aroma of distant worlds ARTICLE: Archaeologists excavate ancient Roman takeout counter at Pompeii THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

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. LINKS: 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 THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

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... LINKS: ARTICLE: Is It Better to Give Than Receive? ARTICLE: Fast Superhighway Through the Solar System Discovered THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

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... LINKS: ARTICLE: Which factors trigger leaf die-off in Autumn? ARTICLE: Two liquids of water exist THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

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... LINKS: 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 THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

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... LINKS: ARTICLE: AstraZeneca's best COVID vaccine result was a fluke. Experts have uestions ARTICLE: Immunity to the Coronavirus May Last Years, New Data Hint THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

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... LINKS: 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 THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

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... LINKS: 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 THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

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... LINKS: 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 THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

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... LINKS: ARTICLE: Dog training methods help researchers teach robots to learn new tricks ARTICLE: NASA's SOFIA Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

LINKS: 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) THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

On today’s episode: Plastic eating enzymes are helping us improve recycling. Does too many pictures make it too hard to read? And we get to the core of the science of subglacial lakes. All that and more today on All Around Science… LINKS: ARTICLE: Characterization and engineering of a two-enzyme system for plastics depolymerization ARTICLE: Busy pictures hinder reading ability in children ARTICLE: Physical, chemical and biological processes in Lake Vostok and other Antarctic subglacial lakes ARTICLE: Metatranscriptomic and Metagenomic Analysis of Biological Diversity in Subglacial Lake Vostok (Antarctica) THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

On today’s episode of All Around Science: Scientists have taken a closer look at 66 million years of climate change. Baby animals all grow at different speeds.. But why? What would happen if the moon disappeared? All that and more on today’s episode of All Around Science... LINKS: June Almeida ARTICLE: High-fidelity record of Earth’s climate history puts current changes in context ARTICLE: Uncovering the clock that sets the speed of embryo development THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com