Are you missing cues… if you can’t see all the… hues??? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Bladder cancer is often spotted when urine changes color. But what if you can’t see red? Ruh roh! Enter Mustafa Fattah [MOOS-tah-fah FAH-tah] and team at Harvard. They
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(Sigh) Microscopic Paul Rudd only exists in the Marvel universe… unless? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Imagine shrinking robots down to the size of a speck of dust. That would revolutionize processing… manufacturing… pretty much everything! Well, shrink rays we have not, but the
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The digital world is warmer than you think. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Every click online generates heat across thousands of internet servers. Data centers use enormous energy to cool off. Why not put some of that heat to use? Enter Johannes Oltmanns and
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Humans are great at making chemicals that never leave. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. PFAS are “forever pollutants” and they’re EVERYWHERE. Removing them is slow, expensive, and often ineffective. But, what if nature has a solution? At Texas A&M University, Susie Dai and team looked
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Where do fish evolve the fastest: warm seas or icy waters? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. If you guessed the tropics, you might want to CHILL. Enter Mike Burns and team at UC Davis. They compared over three thousand fish species’ body shapes –
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Ah, clean as a… worm?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. You heard that right. Worms clean up after themselves by wriggling. So can technology match that? Enter Rosa Sinaasappel [roh-SAH sih-NAAS-ah-pehl] and team at Georgia Tech. They studied the behavior and flexibility of aquatic
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Did Kroger lose a little fat on its rump? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. GLP-1s like Ozempic limit hunger signals in the brain and raise sensitivity to blood sugar changes. That’s why people use it for weight loss. But what does that mean for grocery
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Is your dog…a bit SNOOPY? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Gifted Word Learner DOGS learn objects’ names like no other! But, can they eavesdrop? Enter Shany Dror [SHAH-nee Duh-OHR] and team at the Eötvös Loránd [URT-vosh LOR-ahnd] University in Hungary. In their study, dogs
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“BEE don’t kill my vibe! BEE don’t kill my vibe!” This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. A good mood is contagious, right? Is that what makes us human? Or is that what makes us… bees?! Enter Jose Romero-Gonzalez and team at Southern Medical University. They
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Ever seen a plant take a breather? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Pores in plant leaves control air and water flow. Nowadays, we can monitor that in HD. Enter Joseph Crawford and team from University of Illinois. They developed a system to learn everything
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