Episodios

  • 287 - Refilling the Groundwater
    Mar 31 2026

    On today’s episode: Bee vitamins! Like, for bees! We’re running out of water in the ground. How can we get it back? All that and more today on All Around Science...


    RESOURCES

    • Saving bees with ‘superfoods’: new engineered supplement found to boost colony reproduction | University of Oxford
    • Engineered yeast provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybees | Nature
    • A Bit of Good News: It’s Possible to Turn Around A Groundwater Crisis | Ars Technica
    • Ground Water Atlas of the United States | USGS
    • Map of Ground Water Recovery Sites


    CREDITS:

    Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

    Booking - September McCrady

    THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

    https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

    http://andrewallenmusic.com

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    59 m
  • 286 - Why Does Bobby Love Science?
    Mar 23 2026

    On today’s episode: It might be time to sleep in separate beds. We talk about how our very own Bobby Frankenburger discovered his passion for science. All that and more today on All Around Science...


    RESOURCES

    • Your partner may wake you up six times a night – but does it matter? | New Scientist


    CREDITS:

    Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

    Booking - September McCrady

    THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

    https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

    http://andrewallenmusic.com

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    1 h y 8 m
  • 285 - Electricity Probably Doesn't Work The Way You Think It Does
    Mar 16 2026

    On today’s episode: What makes a stable star start to flicker wildly? Electrons are really a lot slower than you think they are. All that and more today on All Around Science...


    RESOURCES

    • UW astronomers collect rare evidence of two planets colliding


    CREDITS:

    Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

    Booking - September McCrady

    THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

    https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

    http://andrewallenmusic.com

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    1 h y 5 m
  • 284 - Why Don't Humans Have More Hair?
    Mar 9 2026
    On today’s episode: There’s a new ant species that is all queens. We answer listener questions about hair! All that and more today on All Around Science...RESOURCESArtemis III not going to the moonEvery ant is a queen in this parasitic species — and they reproduce by cloning themselves and hijacking other ant colonies | Live Sciencehttps://elifesciences.org/articles/76911https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230310-why-dont-humans-have-furhttps://www.cbhs.com.au/mind-and-body/blog/why-men-are-hairyhttps://sons.co.uk/blogs/learn/hairy-subject-why-are-men-hairier-than-womenhttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20131004-why-do-men-grow-facial-hairhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/07/19/dear-science-why-does-the-hair-on-my-head-grow-longer-than-the-hair-on-my-body/https://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/hair-care/scalp-treatments/question100.htm#:~:text=When%20the%20hair%20follicle%20enters,links%20on%20the%20next%20page.&text=Your%20browser%20can't%20play%20this%20video.&text=An%20error%20occurred.,is%20disabled%20in%20your%20browser.https://sandiegozoowildlifealliance.org/story-hub/zoonooz/across-the-spectrumhttps://riverlegacy.org/blog/how-come-there-are-no-blue-or-green-mammals#:~:text=It%20is%20believed%20that%20most,blue%20and%20green%20at%20you!https://animaldiversity.org/collections/mammal_anatomy/hair/#:~:text=The%20color%20of%20hair%20is,characterized%20by%20different%20banding%20patternsCREDITS:Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura ArmstrongBooking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allenhttps://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOULhttp://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    59 m
  • 283 - Boomerangs, airpods, and air pollution
    Mar 2 2026

    On today’s episode: Worried about heart attacks? Try oatmeal! And we reach into the mailbag again and answer your questions about boomerangs and airpods. All that and more today on All Around Science...


    RESOURCES

    • Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level — University of Bonn
    • https://www.healthline.com/health/hdl-vs-ldl-cholesterol#hdl-vs-ldl
    • Air Quality Index (AQI) Basics | AirNow
    • Technical Assistance Document for the Reporting of Daily Air Quality – the Air Quality Index (AQI) | EPA


    CREDITS:

    Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

    Booking - September McCrady

    THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

    https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

    http://andrewallenmusic.com

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • 282 - Burnout
    Feb 23 2026

    On today’s episode: Elephants have whiskers too! And we talk about the science of burnout. All that and more today on All Around Science...


    RESOURCES

    • Unique structure of elephant whiskers give them built-in sensing “intelligence” | Ars Technica
    • https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=FI2ADwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&ots=oD06mQ3Vvm&sig=wexUiegvScQl-GIWZqVQaWs8hBM#v=onepage&q&f=false
    • https://www.scribd.com/document/685389638/Maslach-burnout-Inventory-Standardized-Questionnaire-and-Scoring
    • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10775-018-9364-7
    • https://www.wilmarschaufeli.nl/publications/Schaufeli/160.pdf
    • http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/60531/1/146.pdf#page=56
    • https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10615806.2020.1797695


    CREDITS:

    Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

    Booking - September McCrady

    THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

    https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

    http://andrewallenmusic.com

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    1 h y 1 m
  • 281 - Psychedelics and PTSD
    Feb 16 2026

    On today’s episode: A new milestone for the Perseverance rover! There’s some promising research into how psychedelics could help treat PTSD All that and more today on All Around Science...


    RESOURCES

    • NASA’s Perseverance Rover Completes First AI-Planned Drive on Mars | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
    • Psychedelics may rewire the brain to treat PTSD. Scientists are finally beginning to understand how. | Live Science
    • Psychedelic drug ayahuasca could treat PTSD, early studies hint. But exactly how it works isn't clear. | Live Science
    • MDMA-assisted therapy for severe PTSD: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 study | Nature Medicine
    • Investigating the safety and tolerability of single-dose psilocybin for post-traumatic stress disorder: A nonrandomized open-label clinical trial | Journal of Psychopharmacology


    CREDITS:

    Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

    Booking - September McCrady

    THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

    https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

    http://andrewallenmusic.com

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    1 h y 2 m
  • 280 - Artemis, How to Countdown a Space Launch
    Feb 9 2026

    On today’s episode: Want to smell a mummy being embalmed!? Well now you can! How, exactly, do you launch a rocket? All that and more today on All Around Science...


    RESOURCES

    • Nasal spray could prevent infections from any flu strain | New Scientist
    • Museums incorporate “scent of the afterlife” into Egyptian exhibits | Ars Technica
    • https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/01/31/countdown-begins-for-artemis-ii-wet-dress-rehearsal/


    CREDITS:

    Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

    Booking - September McCrady

    THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

    https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL

    http://andrewallenmusic.com

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    1 h y 29 m