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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...
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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

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...
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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

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...
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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

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...
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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

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...
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Urban humans have lost much of their ability to digest plants Cryptic diversity of cellulose-degrading gut bacteria in industrialized humans The world's first animal was probably a carnivore https://www.reddit.com/r/TIHI/comments/eivocv/thanks_i_hate_nasas_fecal_containment_device/ https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19760005580/downloads/19760005580.pdf) https://www.popsci.com/brief-history-pooping-in-space/ https://www.popsci.com/how-your-body-betrays-you-in-space/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXg2Lxe7ADw&ab_channel=NerdNite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1wwzwvfsC0&ab_channel=NASA https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19760005580 https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/nasa-astronaut-had-to-pack-poop-with-her-hand-in-space-heres-why-1859627 https://www.businessinsider.com/how-nasa-astronauts-pee-and-poop-in-space-2018-8#today-astronauts-at-the-international-space-station-poop-into-a-little-plate-sized-toilet-hole-and-a-fan-vacuum-sucks-their-excrement-away-15 CREDITS:
Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong
Booking - September McCrady 
THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen
https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL
http://andrewallenmusic.com

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...
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Article Drinking-bird-enabled triboelectric hydrovoltaic generator 'Drinking bird' toys upgraded to generate clean energy from water DB-THG powering 20 LCDs (Credit: Device, Wu Zheng Qin et al) Shields up: New ideas might make active shielding viable Space Faring: The Radiation Challenge - NASA What Is Ionizing Radiation? Radiation Effects on Cells & DNA This Is How Orion Astronauts Might Protect Themselves From Radiation Storms Plasma bubble could protect astronauts on Mars trip Radiation Shielding Techniques for Human Spaceflight CREDITS:
Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong
Booking - September McCrady 
THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen
https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL
http://andrewallenmusic.com