Where does YOUR family tree begin? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. We are ALL homo sapien. AKA human! Two-million years ago, humans didn’t live all over the planet. Scientists believed our ancestors, homo erectus, came from EAST Africa. Until now… Let’s travel to Drimolen Main
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Let’s play hide and seek… under the sea? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Dark, gloomy, and cold … it’s the deep sea! With only a little light filtering down, how do animals communicate? Shrimp use special body cells called photophores that light up. But these
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You need WHAT to regrow a rainforest? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Fire season in the Amazon means acres of deforestation. But there might be a way to regrow some of those trees. How? With help from a rainforest native – the tapir! This fruit-loving mammal
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Time to take out the recycling – cans, bottles, newspaper….MATTRESS? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying… ever wonder why you’re always seeing old mattresses out on the street? Plastic is recycled by melting and reshaping it into something new. But mattresses are made of a weird
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Ka-ching! Money can’t buy happiness, but can it buy LONELINESS? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Deborah Ward and colleagues from the University at Buffalo wondered. The researchers surveyed almost a thousand people. They asked questions like, how much time did you spend alone in
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Antarctica – land of ice, snow and…pine trees??? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with The Loh Down on Science. Today, Antarctica is a snowy desert. That’s why it’s always colored white on a map! But has it always been this way? Enter Johann Klages and the Science Team of Expedition
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Grand Theft Auto, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart – video games are just mindless fun – right? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Gamers will tell you that games are serious business. It takes HOURS of practice to “get to master level”. So how do game
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Plastic ocean trash…Now you see it! Now you don’t? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with The Loh Down on Science. More than twelve million tons of plastic gets lost in the ocean every year! That’s the weight of almost SIXTY THOUSAND blue whales! Can’t we make some of that plastic
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Is it just me, or is it warm in here?!? ? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Temperatures are heating up! According to NASA, the Earth’s global temperature has warmed two degrees since the eighteen eighties. BUT, what does two degrees REALLY mean? Global temperature
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Yankees versus Red Sox, an age-old rivalry! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. This hundred year old feud started when a Red Sox player moved to the Yankees. But is the quarrel JUST for the baseball fans? Or also for… the pigeons? Meet Elizabeth Carlen
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