They say love is a…mixtape of frog songs?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down On Science. Ryan Calsbeek, from Dartmouth University, and colleagues recorded male frog choruses in the wild during mating season. Different recordings were overlaid—think fake froggie boy bands—to see which mating call combinations attracted
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Which one was it ma’am? The whole milk? No milk? Two percent? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Boy, that coffee shop creamer counter looks like a crime scene. Evidence spilled all over, straws kerfuffled, and all but three napkins mysteriously gone… they’re in my
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Thrifting and upcycling are so chic! But would you buy lightly used… medication?!? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Recycling gives things a second life. Cool idea! So why not recycle medicine? Enter Dominic Bennet from the University of Liverpool in England. Bennet was looking
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Cardiovascular patients take heart! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Heart problems are notoriously hard to treat. Hearts can’t repair themselves like other organs… But can artificial hearts fill the literal void? Huibin Chang’s team of researchers at Harvard explored what they thought was the
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There’s a bright future for farming… in the dark? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Life on earth depends on the sun. You know it, I know it… FARMERS… KNOW IT. But photosynthesis–how crops use sunlight to synthesize fuel from carbon dioxide and water–is actually
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Does COVID-19 pass… the smell test? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. You’re feeling stuffed up and warm – with a POUNDING headache! Is it… COVID?! Getting tested is a hassle… But wait!… Your dog knows when you’re sick… what about THE DREADED RONA?! Enter
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They say love is a mixtape… of frog songs?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down On Science. We’ve all done crazy things for love, but joining a boy band?! Frogs do something similar during mating season. But if everyone’s doing it… who gets the most groupies? Enter
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Twinkle twinkle little star… “how I wonder what WE are???” This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Who hasn’t stared at the stars wondering where we came from… Did life originate in Earth’s ancient atmospheric soup… Or did it fall from outer space? Yasuhiro Oba and
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You can count on … BEES?!?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Let’s split an order of HONEY barbecue wings. Wait. 5 wings, for 2 people…Someone – NOT ME… is getting shortchanged. But are we the only species that can tell odd from even? Enter
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