All Around Science

A weekly podcast by two huge science fans discussing what’s new and interesting in science! Science is our window into incredible worlds, from impossibly small atoms to impossibly distant stars. We want to use it to discover as much as possible, and share it with you every week.

Shoving Bacteria Into Your Cells 04/29/2024

Shoving Bacteria Into Your Cells 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 - CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/31011878

Publishing Your Science 04/22/2024

Publishing Your Science 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 CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/30909038

What's the Point of Particle Colliders? 04/15/2024

What's the Point of Particle Colliders? 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 CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/30812138

How Do We Make Memories? 04/08/2024

How Do We Make Memories? 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 CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/30708813

Tick Meds for Humans 04/01/2024

Tick Meds for Humans 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 CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/30596098

Pooping in Space 03/25/2024

Pooping in Space On today’s episode: Scientists have found a bunch of new bacteria in our guts that help us digest plants! NASA’s many solutions to the engineering problem of pooping in space. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES ) CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/30517888

Radiation Risks on the Way to Mars 03/18/2024

Radiation Risks on the Way to Mars On today’s episode: A classic science demo may be able to generate electricity! There are many dangers to going to space… and one of them is radiation. How are we protecting our astronauts? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/30412778

AI and Creativity 03/11/2024

AI and Creativity On today’s episode: ChatGPT has beaten humans in tests on creative thinking. And it looks like whiptail lizards are just having babies…but something incredible is going on. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/30283948

Sleep Science w/ Dr. Alex Reynolds 03/04/2024

Sleep Science w/ Dr. Alex Reynolds On today’s episode: A new treatment for people with severe food allergies. We talk about the science of sleep with Dr. Alex Reynolds. All that and more today on All Around Science... THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/30209603

Sound Energy 02/26/2024

Sound Energy On today’s episode: A snapshot of a moving electron? How much energy is needed to make the sounds we hear? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES . . . THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/30079703

Dry Skin, Eyeball Jelly, and More! 02/19/2024

Dry Skin, Eyeball Jelly, and More! On today’s episode: Microbes are the new stars of CSI: Miami, and Maura reaches into the mailbag and answers your burning questions! All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES . . THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/30005833

Cicada Double Brood Swarm 02/12/2024

Cicada Double Brood Swarm On today’s episode: Some tiny robot news! Baby great white sharks. The cicada double brood swarm is coming… are you ready? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/29904108

A Nuclear Fusion Future? 02/05/2024

A Nuclear Fusion Future? On today’s episode: Some tiny robot news! We’re sending LISA to space, and she’s gonna detect black hole collisions for us! Will nuclear fusion power our future? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/29789488

Big Farms vs Urban Gardens 01/29/2024

Big Farms vs Urban Gardens On today’s episode: Some tiny robot news! Big, giant, large-scale farms have a big, giant carbon footprint… but maybe not as much as that rooftop garden across the street. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/29662613

Birds Are Quantum Physicists 01/22/2024

Birds Are Quantum Physicists On today’s episode: Scientists tracked the 20 year journey of a mammoth that lived 14,000 years ago! How do migrating birds know where they’re going? Quantum mechanics! All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/29582333

A New Way to Fight Super Bacteria 01/15/2024

A New Way to Fight Super Bacteria On today’s episode: Evolution may not be quite as random as we thought. A new drug is being developed to help deal with the problem of antibiotic resistance. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/29478228

Dark Matter Stars 01/08/2024

Dark Matter Stars On today’s episode: The cutest version of humans and animals working together! We know dark matter exists; can it create dark stars? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/29340718

Space Mission 2024 01/01/2024

Space Mission 2024 On today’s episode: How much does light color affect your sleep cycle? And the 2024 calendar is already full of space missions all over the solar system! All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/29289113

Science You Missed in 2023 12/25/2023

Science You Missed in 2023 On today’s episode: The plants have been screaming all this time and we haven’t been listening! A millenia-old mystery has been solved! Long COVID… what have scientists figured out about it so far? And the superstar of 2023 has made strides toward better outcomes for some of the most challenging cancer cases. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/29214683

Did A Meteor Really Kill the Dinosaurs? 12/18/2023

Did A Meteor Really Kill the Dinosaurs? On today’s episode: That gene editing wonder technology, CRISPR, is finally curing diseases! What REALLY killed off the dinosaurs? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES . THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/29118783

Quantum Computers Will Ruin Everything 12/11/2023

Quantum Computers Will Ruin Everything On today’s episode: A new method that can make AI systems more like brains. Quantum computers are not going to be on your desktop, but they ARE going to threaten life as we know it. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/28994743

The Winter Blues 12/04/2023

The Winter Blues On today’s episode: Did you hear? One of the highest energy cosmic rays ever recorded zapped the Utah desert! Why do the seasons affect our mood, sometimes dramatically? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES , , THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/28908768

Red Wine Headaches 11/27/2023

Red Wine Headaches 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 THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/28774298

Earthquakes 11/20/2023

Earthquakes 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 . THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/28712173

Allergies 11/13/2023

Allergies On today’s episode: It’s been 4.5 billion years since Earth and the Moon violently broke up…but Earth just can’t let go. Is it a food allergy? An intolerance? A sensitivity? Let’s talk about the difference! All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/28591573

JuMBO Planets 11/06/2023

JuMBO Planets On today’s episode: Pacific hurricanes are pretty scary… why don’t we ever hear about them? And we talk about JuMBOs, the celestial object that shouldn’t exist. All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/28507172

El Niño vs The Jet Stream 10/30/2023

El Niño vs The Jet Stream On today’s episode: Scientists have found the oldest known structure; and it’s really, really old. You’re going to be hearing a lot about El Nino over the next year… So let’s learn what it is! All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/28455077

The Nature of Anti-Science 10/23/2023

The Nature of Anti-Science On today’s episode: We have a fantastic discussion about the nature of science and anti-science. All that and more today on All Around Science... THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/28390424

Anthrozoology w/ Marika Bell 10/16/2023

Anthrozoology w/ Marika Bell On today’s episode: We talk with Marika Bell, the host of the podcast "The Deal With Animals". We learn what anthrozoology is, and she answers listener questions. All that and more today on All Around Science... THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/28320062

Collecting Asteroid Samples 10/09/2023

Collecting Asteroid Samples On today’s episode: Australian researchers are trying to learn more about how heat exposure affects pregnancy. Our biggest asteroid sample ever touched down a couple weeks ago, which means we’ve got science to do. All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: SOURCES THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen /episode/index/show/allaroundscience/id/28256501

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