027 - The Polar Vortex
Mar 08, 2021•47 min•Ep. 27
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Episode description
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 until you hear about sudden stratospheric warming! All that and more today on All Around Science.
LINKS:
- ARTICLE: URI researchers: Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive process
- ARTICLE: Did teenage 'tyrants' outcompete other dinosaurs?
- ARTICLE: On the sudden stratospheric warming and polar vortex of early 2021
THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com
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