Sweet chrome dome, Ratman! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Your hair interacts a lot with the skin and blood vessels around its roots. Sometimes these interactions don’t go according to plan, leading to balding. Could the future of hair loss treatment be fixing blood
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Finally, we can talk smack—WITHOUT it coming back! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Imagine talking to someone across a crowded room—without anyone else hearing! Jia-Xin Zhong and team from Penn State have discovered a way to create “audible enclaves.” They bent sound waves by
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A monitor for… the baby monitor?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Raising kids is a science – one that we need more data on. Enter Zhenzhen Weng and team at Stanford. They created HARMONI, an A-I tool that watches videos to study how kids and
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Beanie Babies are back… on the menu?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Growing food is great! Chemical fertilizers polluting the environment? Not so great. Enter Nicola Cook and team at the John Innes Center in the U-K. They found a way to give plants a
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What does space taste like? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is back! With flavor! What flavor? Rock samples from Bennu, a billions of years old asteroid. And the taste is… familiar! Salt minerals! Similar to what’s left behind when water evaporates
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Taxi! I can’t remember how to get home! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Guess what: Taxi Drivers have a lower death rate from Alzheimers. What gives? Meet Vishal Patel and team at Harvard Medical School. They analyzed U.S. deaths across over four hundred different
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Target acquired. Locked On. And… Bullseye! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Don’t you wish we could smart bomb cancer? Then check out CAR T-cell therapy. It turns immune cells into cancer protein-hunting missiles, effectively wiping out most of the cancer! Unfortunately, CAR T- cell
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Talk about a space oddity! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. At the center of most galaxies is a huge black hole. But are all black holes created equally? Nope! Enter Alejandro Borlaff and team. They reexamined noisy space data from over thirty years ago
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Is there life on Mars? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… Sorry David Bowie, probably not, but there was water – billions of years ago. But how do we know? Why does it matter? Jack Gillespie and colleagues from Curtin University probed for answers.
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Gotta have my drugs, man! But short on cheddar! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Cost is one of the biggest obstacles to getting the medicine we need. How can we make meds cheaper? Enter Tianwei Dai and team from the University of Liverpool. They
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