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Sentience and Animal Ethics

On today’s episode: One scientist built a robot to hunt down and scare the fins off of mosquitofish. Bladeless, noninvasive….brain surgery? And what is sentience? How does it factor into our decisions about animal treatment? All that and more today on All Around...

Eel Sex

On today’s episode: Mars may have been too small to hold on to its water. Why don’t humans have tails? Scientists figured it out! And how do eels reproduce? We dig into the age old mystery!   All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: ARTICLE:...

Hurricanes

On today’s episode: As if Australia wasn’t scary enough, now the toads are eating each other alive! New ideas for a billion years of geological mystery in the Grand Canyon. It’s time for science class! Today’s lesson… Hurricanes! All that and more today on All...

tRNA Gets the Job Done

On today’s episode: People are driving less during the pandemic, but traffic fatalities are increasing. Some SARS COV 2 variants are figuring out how to dodge our immune response, and mRNA has been hogging the biological spotlight… let’s talk about...

Eyes Are Complex

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...