Does the perfect pasta sauce come down to… PHYSICS?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Cacio e pepe: it’s just cheese and pepper, how hard can it be? Turns out, deceptively hard! It eludes perfection due to its temperature sensitivity AND precise ingredient ratios. So
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Hey man, can I bum a ride… to Mars?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Spacecraft cleanrooms use rigorous procedures to ensure no microbial guests stow away on missions. However, some bacteria are hard to detect, since they don’t form spores. Madhan Tirumalai and team
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Never bring cocktail sauce to a shrimp fight. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. The Peacock mantis shrimp throws the strongest punch in the animal kingdom. Their club-like claws deliver blows as damaging as twenty-two caliber bullets. Yowch! It’s been a mystery how the shrimp
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