Turns out, no island… is an island! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Island gardens are a sight to behold, but how did all those plants get there? Enter Andre Naranjo and team from the Florida Museum of Natural History. They studied Hispaniola Island! It has
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A new life for plastic. Imagine that… This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. PET is a common plastic in water bottles. Recycling it is costly and energy intensive! How can we make better use of it? Enter Pavel Kulyabin and team from the University of
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You make an offer. Hours go by. Is silence random… or revealing? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. When sellers take a long time to respond, what’s happening on their end? Are they busy, or weighing the deal? Miruna Cotet and team at Ohio State
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Think your breakup was hard? Imagine things resurfacing twenty million years later… This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… It can be that way… for land masses! Geoscientist Attila Balazs and team at ETH Zurich noticed something peculiar. OLDER continental fragments were found among YOUNGER
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Put your hands together for… … Sandra Tsing Loh … with the Loh Down on Science! *clapping* You know what that sound was? NOT my hands! Because that’s NOT EXACTLY how clapping works. What is it then? Make some noise for Yicong Fu and team from Cornell University. They put powder
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Lemme give you a shot in the mouth! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Imagine a painless AND needle-free method to give vaccines. How about through the mouth! Gum cells can absorb vaccines, but what’s the best delivery method? Rohan Ingrole and team from Texas
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For my next trick, I will make a STAR… DISAPPEAR?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. At the end of their lives, massive stars typically EXPLODE before forming black holes. BUT is that always the case? Enter Kishalay De [KEE-shih-lee DAY] and team at M-I-T.
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On Wednesdays, we wear… diapers? Puh, Mean Girls. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. A healthy gut contains a diverse ecosystem of bacteria! But – where do we get it from? Enter Liviana Ricci and team at the University of Trento, Italy. They studied a
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A banana a day might NOT keep the doctor away. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Toxic metals from industrial waste can build up in our bodies and cause health problems. In 2015, a mining disaster in Brazil released toxic metal waste into nearby soil.
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How’s the weather… on the sun?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Solar storms impact the Earth’s magnetic field, so we want to study them – from a safe distance, of course! Where is that, anyway? The Sun has an outer boundary that changes with
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