Picture yourself at the beach, waves crashing, salty air on your face. What’s that smell? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. That fresh ocean breeze might not be as clean as you think. Enter Matthew Pendergraft and team from University of California San Diego. They
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Where can I get some new DNA around here? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Usually, cells make new DNA by copying existing DNA. Or so we thought?! Enter Pujuan Deng and team from Stanford University. They’ve turned this idea on its head, studying a
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What’s better for studying? Complete silence, or should you turn the music UP? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. So far, research has been mixed… but Lindsey Cooke and team from Edith Cowan University listened more closely! They surveyed over two-hundred students on their music
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Old MacDonald had a….. solar panel farm? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. We’ve discovered that solar farms cool local weather. Why? Enter Jiaju Guo and team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. They analyzed satellite observations of land conditions, temperature, and vegetation to uncover
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Your pregnancy story starts with … a nineteen thirty-five map?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Gestational diabetes is rising across Southern California. And rates are especially high in certain zip codes. Could neighborhood history play a role? Enter Wajeeha Umer and team from University
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Who doesn’t love an ocean breeze… full of salt… and… contaminants?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Plastic pollution is everywhere. In our oceans, on land… even in our air! Enter Daniel B. Shaw and team from University of Strathclyde in Scotland. They studied how
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Can we turn methane into merlot? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… Scary question, I know. How did we get here? Cow burps and landfills trap us with a bad vintage of greenhouse gases. Can the damage be undone? Enter Ruchira Mitra and colleagues
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Want to age like fine wine? Don’t turn up the heat! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Rising temperatures don’t just melt glaciers. They stress our bodies, specifically gut and immune systems. Heat also warms the ocean waters, which fuels growth of deadly waterborne bacteria.
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Old prescriptions, new predictions. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Welcome to the Artificial Intelligence Era! AI can now potentially predict melanoma — a skin cancer — before it strikes. How? With help from medical records. Enter Martin Gillstedt at the University of Gothenburg in
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Curse you, gas station sushi! Never again! *Blarf* This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Food avoidance is actually a learned behavior. And we’re not the only ones who do it. Yujie Wang and team from University of Bonn, studied this in fruit flies. They fed
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