Pressure is higher, conditions are dire, under the sea! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Deep sea robots face many challenges. The cold and the pressure down below squishes their soft materials, and the bots struggle to move. Guorui Li and team from Harbin Engineering
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Roll over Beethoven! And Balto too! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Who doesn’t love a snow dog story? Except the part where they die heroically. Like a thousand year old breed of endangered Inuit-Canadian sled dogs! Meet the noble Qimmit. These fluffy boys have
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How does nature nurture your newborn?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Plant life in cities improves our health. But could it also make an impact… in the womb? Enter Mengyi Li and team from the University of California Irvine. They scoured health records of
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Let rivers be rivers! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Many of our rivers today look like one way streets for water. Natural rivers have multiple channels, and that keeps them fresher and more sustainable. Restoring natural channels boosts ecosystem resilience… but how do we
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ADAP! Ever heard of it? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. The AIDS Drug Assistance Program, or ADAP for short, provides medication for people with HIV. Are YOU in need of this info? Kathleen McManus and team from the University of Virginia wanted to see
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Click it or… raffle ticket?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Less than half of motorists report using their seatbelt regularly. WTF! Do we need to PAY people to care about safety? Jeffrey Ebert and team from Penn State say… yeah. For ten weeks, eleven
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Is your guardian angel… jaundice?? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Malaria is a deadly disease caused by parasites. But there might be an interesting way your body fights it. Bilirubin is a substance that forms when red blood cells degrade. Too much of it
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Not all medical heroes wear… stethoscopes. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, under-served communities of color in New York City had DOUBLE the risk of dying from the virus. What – or who – saved lives there? Enter Maureen Miller and
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Covid is back! For cats? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. The claim that COVID-19 came from bats being researched in Wuhan, China is controversial. But the question of whether animals can be infected persists. The Harbin Veterinary Research Institute investigated SARS-CoV-2 infections. After looking
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