Octo-Bot Arms

Watch out WALL-E, there’s a new WAVE of robots coming! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying… What has eight arms that move like liquid and can reach into cracks between rocks?!  An octopus of course! But robots? Forget about it! With rigid joints and

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Planetary Diet

Look out – it’s the attack of the planet-eating suns!  This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. When two stars form at the same time, they should be chemically identical … like twins! But some pairs are more like distant cousins. And as it turns out

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Leisurely Lunch

Open wide — Here comes the airplane!  This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Bribing, begging, bargaining…we’ve tried EVERYTHING to get our kids to eat their greens. But could it just be a matter of … TIME?  Enter Xanna Burg and colleagues from the University of

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Bin Birds

Who’s taking on racoons for the title of ULTIMATE DUMPSTER DIVER??!!  This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying – SURPRISE! It’s the Sulphur-crested cockatoo! Before twenty-eighteen, these pranksters were reported opening garbage cans in three suburbs around Sydney, Australia. They used their beaks and feet

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Caterpillar Defense

Was the Very Hungry Caterpillar also very TOXIC? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Caterpillars may look cute — but some have prickly protection! Take the painted cup moth caterpillar. It’s scientific name, Doratifera vulnerans, means “bearer of painful gifts” — and for good reason!

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Surfing Sharks

“Just keep swimming…just keep swimming….” This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Imagine having to constantly walk in order to breathe. Sounds exhausting — but that’s a shark’s reality! Sharks MUST keep swimming to get oxygen over their gills. Do they EVER get a break? Yannis

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Dino Dexterity

Depiction of pterosaur with opposed thumbs in the forest.

Dinosaurs once ruled the Earth. But how did some get a GRIP on the skies and trees? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science.  In northeastern China, paleontologists discovered a one-hundred-and-sixty million year old fossil. Trapped inside the rock was a flying pterosaur. With a uniquely

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Octo-Bot Arms

Watch out WALL-E, there’s a new WAVE of robots coming! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying… What has eight arms that move like liquid and can reach into cracks between rocks?!  An octopus of course! But robots? Forget about it! With rigid joints and

Continue reading

Planetary Diet

Look out – it’s the attack of the planet-eating suns!  This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. When two stars form at the same time, they should be chemically identical … like twins! But some pairs are more like distant cousins. And as it turns out

Continue reading

Leisurely Lunch

Open wide — Here comes the airplane!  This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Bribing, begging, bargaining…we’ve tried EVERYTHING to get our kids to eat their greens. But could it just be a matter of … TIME?  Enter Xanna Burg and colleagues from the University of

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