Room for dessert? I don’t have room to breathe! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Even after dinner, your brain still craves sugar. Why? Enter Marielle Minère and team at Max Planck Institute. They discovered a brain circuit connecting fullness with sugar cravings. These neurons
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Sun, sand, and…sedimentary rock?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Imagine going to the beach and… dude where’s my ocean?! That’s what Jianhui Li and an international team just discovered on Mars! We’ve long suspected parts of Mars were once underwater, but lacked evidence. Enter
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Room for dessert? I don’t have room to breathe! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Even after dinner, your brain still craves sugar. Why? Enter Marielle Minère and team at Max Planck Institute. They discovered a brain circuit connecting fullness with sugar cravings. These neurons
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*sniff sniff* Smells…noisy? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Is there a link between smell and sound? Enter Diego Hernandez and team at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. They trained mice to associate high-pitched SOUNDS with WATER rewards, and fruity SMELLS with NO reward. When the
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Stop and smell the… NANO BOTS?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. How do you picture medicine delivery robots? Like tiny space crafts? What about flowers! Dong Wook Kim and team at Max Planck Institute designed particle-sized bloom-bots. But they’re not just pretty! Sound waves
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Can AI tell if you have cancer? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. If only cancer came with warning labels! Even for doctors, tumors can be misleading, like with Merkel cell carcinoma – a skin cancer. What about letting A-I take a look? Enter DeepMerkel,
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Jetlag… in your tummy?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. European vacation! Get ready for amazing food. But wait. No matter how much you eat, nothing hits the spot after you land. Why? It turns out that transatlantic flights mess up your sleep cycle AND
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Welcome to the memory storage department – graveyard shift! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Your sleep is divided into different stages, each helping store memories from the day. But how does your brain sort through WHICH memories to keep? Enter Hongyu Chang and team
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Describe your personality … in ONE EMOJI! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Texting a friend? That winky face says more than you think! Dr. Simon Dubé at Indiana University explored how emotional awareness and intimacy influence emoji use. They surveyed around three hundred adults
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Music as medicine?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Has a song ever moved you to tears? Music’s emotional impact has inspired researchers from Shanghai to explore its potential to treat depression. They focused on its ability to activate brain circuits connected to emotion and
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