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On today’s episode: Under hundreds of meters of sediment, microbes are thriving thanks to radiation from space. Why were there so few dinosaurs?... Teenagers… Worried about the polar vortex? Wait unt…

On today’s episode: Dreaming might be critical for learning to be scared of the right things. Earth’s water may have been locally sourced. And magnetic field reversals might be leading to mass extinc…

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 i…

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 Arou…

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 to…

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 “mo…

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 huma…

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 …

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 a…

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 o…

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!…

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?

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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 th…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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