You make an offer. Hours go by. Is silence random… or revealing? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. When sellers take a long time to respond, what’s happening on their end? Are they busy, or weighing the deal? Miruna Cotet and team at Ohio State
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Seen at 2:17 p.m. Replied at… never. If text messaging is instant, why are so many people left on “read?” This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Jing Li and team at Sun Yat-sen University in China wanted to understand why people don’t always respond. They
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Where do fish evolve the fastest: warm seas or icy waters? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. If you guessed the tropics, you might want to CHILL. Enter Mike Burns and team at UC Davis. They compared over three thousand fish species’ body shapes –
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These dinosaur bones were made for walking! But how?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. It’s not enough to just eye-ball some fossils and guess how a creature moved. For that, we need bone-on-bone mapping. Armita Manafzadeh and team at Yale University built 3D models
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Who needs a spa day when you’ve got trunks and a garden hose? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. We know some animals use tools – like monkeys, dolphins, and a few brainy birds. But what about elephants? Lea Urban and team at Humboldt University
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Could a mouse save your life? Maybe so. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Wenjian Sun and team at the University of Southern California tested just that. They wanted to know how animals react when one of their own suddenly loses consciousness. In the lab,
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That’s no illusion! It’s a glowing fish! And I’m Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Why do they glow like that anyway? Is it magic? No… Emily Carr and team at the American Museum of Natural History wanted answers. Using special lights, they spotted biofluorescence, where fish
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Hey Professor Fido! Tell me, do dogs really know what words actually mean? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Meet Claudia Fugazza, lead researcher on a fetching study of brainy pups. They played with unusually clever dogs! Here, owners used two toy types: tug-of-war “pulls”
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What if your snack… talked back? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Birds often copy each other, but some even mimic their predators. Why? Enter Trinity Harvey and team at Cal Poly Humboldt. They tracked forty-nine Steller’s Jays in California. For a year, researchers followed
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Do you ever think your sibling comes from a different species entirely? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Children usually look like their parents! But… what about ants? Yannick Juvé and team from the University of Montpellier played Maurie Povich for harvester ants. Ant males
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