Toot and Tell

Let’s break wind – for science! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Intimate question: How many times do you fart a day?  Santiago Botasini and team at the University of Maryland are sniffing out the facts.  For a month, they had volunteers wear SMART underwear

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Nature’s Cleanup Crew

Talk about deep, deep trouble. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Contaminated soil doesn’t recover overnight. Pollution is stubborn. But belowground, nature has already begun the cleanup. How? Enter Danielle Stevenson and team at the Center for Applied Ecological Remediation. They collected soil samples from

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