Paging Doctor Bozo! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Send in the clowns – seriously! Hospitals often use them to cheer up kids before scary procedures. Less fear, less pain, faster recovery! But what about sleep? Hospitalized children often feel anxious… could clowns help these
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Would you eat more corn if it used less fertilizer? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Half of the world is fed by crops grown with NITROGEN fertilizers! But the nitrogen that plants can’t use pollutes the environment! How do we cut back? Enter Rafael
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No sunny, no honey, know what I mean? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Sunscreen has been around for over a century. And guess what: it does more than prevent sunburns! So why don’t men use it enough? Enter Patrícia Maia Campos and team from
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It’s uh me, Bactario! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Antibiotic resistant bacteria are emerging everywhere. Like goombahs in Super Mario! How do we stop them? Ready player one: Amninder Kaur, and team, from Austria and Germany. They cultivated a rare bacterium that naturally makes
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Remember being… A BABY?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science wondering… What memories remain from infancy? Enter Tristan Yates and team from Yale. To find out, they used functional MRI, a noninvasive imaging tool, on babies! The babies looked at pictures once and then a
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What’s turning the Red Planet green?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… A Martian aurora! The first visible one, captured by NASA’s Perseverance! Elise Knutsen and team at the University of Colorado spotted this phenomenon after a solar storm. The charged solar particles zoomed toward
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Stop and smell the – *GAG* This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Some varieties of wild ginger smell like… wild ginger. Some… smell like death! What gives? Dr. Yudai Okuyama and team at the University of Tokyo discovered the source of the stank. In normal
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Feeling blue? Maybe it’s time to chat… with a bot. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. In the U-K, Johanna Habicht and team tried out a new AI-powered chatbot. Its job? Help people refer themselves to mental health services — no calls, no paperwork. Just
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Pop til you drop… weight?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Medicines like Ozempic melt the pounds away! But here’s the catch: almost HALF of what’s lost could be muscle. That’s an ancient survival trick — our bodies shed muscle when food is scarce. Can
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What’s black and white and… full of toxic sludge? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Imagine the ocean was your home until… it became a murky wasteland. Well, prepare to cry: killer whales off British Columbia are in DEEP trouble. Kiah Lee and team from
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