No one wants to be struck by lightning! Unless it feels good. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be struck by lightning? Ask a tree! Lightning strikes kill millions of trees each year, but SOME benefit from
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Getting nowhere with Google Maps? Try echolocation! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Did you know that bats experience traffic too? But they navigate it with a grace that puzzles scientists. Two thousand bats can emerge from one small cave opening in one minute. And
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Summer’s coming and the heat is on! Unfortunately. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Our sweat is odorless, but our armpits can, er, stink. Gurdeep Minhas and colleagues at Oxford found the culprit. In armpit bacteria, there is a transport protein. Picture a conveyor belt bringing
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Yuck! Mom, what are you eating?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Breast milk gives babies the nourishment they need. But is that ALL it delivers? Enter Xin Cheng and team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. They tested breast milk from nearly five hundred
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Business dispute? Break bread, not heads! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Kaitlin Woolley from University of Chicago hosted one hundred students for a meal. They role-played as either a union leader or manager. They were served either similar or different types of food. As
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Covid is back! For cats? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. The claim that COVID-19 came from bats being researched in Wuhan, China is controversial. But the question of whether animals can be infected persists. The Harbin Veterinary Research Institute investigated SARS-CoV-2 infections. After looking
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Newsflash! Private detective AI is on the Alzheimer’s case! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Alzheimer’s, the memory stealing disease, doesn’t leave clues behind. There are no gene mutations or viruses linked to it. So, what’s the cause? Enter Junchen Chen from UC San Diego.
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Can pollution JAM UP your brain?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. You’re weaving through honking, coughing traffic. Your head is pounding like a drum solo. Could smog be scrambling our brain signals? Enter Yichen Yang and a team from the University of Edinburgh. They
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Neurons are TRIPPY man… This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Psychedelics are all the rage in treating mental health disorders. But hallucinating to improve your mental health sounds … intense. What about … “diet acid” … for us squares? Enter Jeremy Tuck and team from
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Mmm. Do I detect a faint sprinkle of…microplastics?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Tiny plastic particles called microplastics can enter our bodies through food ingestion. How?! Perhaps your kitchen cutting board is part of the problem? Enter Himani Yadav and team from North
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