Ah, the first day of spring! Time to bathe our children in flowery essential oils and—what, no? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Crunchy granola parents! Put those lavender and tea tree oils down and just walk away. According to a New England Journal of
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Talk about life’s NUMTS and bolts! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Mitochondria – your body’s energy supplier – has a side hustle: inserting their D-N-A into your brain! Should we be afraid?! Enter the Mills team at the University of Michigan. They examined little
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Prepping your taxes? Feeling sad? Wait, that’s a GOOD thing! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Adam Anderson, from the University of Toronto, wondered how mood affects concentration. To make two dozen university students happy, he played them a quote, “jazzed-up version of Bach’s Brandenberg
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science and a fun bar bet! David van der Spoel and team at Norway’s Uppsala University wondered: Is it harder to lift a glass off a table wet with water, or alcohol? They measured the work
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Want a D-N-A glow up?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science… saying eat your veggies! Michael Nshanian and team at Stanford University studied how fiber-packed diets affect cancer. When digested, fiber produces molecules called propionate and butyrate. And they don’t just loosen things up in
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Was the first Grecian formula… Roman? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. When it came to coloring hair, Ancient Rome was startlingly advanced. Their recipe for hair dye combines lead, sulfide, and lime. This creates nanocrystals which grow not just INSIDE hair strands but in
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Supermom, activate: baby force field! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Your body’s immune system has its own peacekeepers called regulatory T-cells. They help balance your body’s reactions to invading microbes! But can a pregnant mother’s immune system distinguish HER BABY from a germy invader?
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Wanna heart that won’t quit? Jumping jacks, now! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. It’s hard to find time for long workouts, especially with busy schedules. But good news, long hours aren’t needed to be heart healthy. Emmanuel Stamatakis and team from the University of
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Can your brain handle outer space? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Davide Marotta and team from New York wondered how gravity affects the brain. Combining different types of sticky brain cells, they made tissue-like structures called organoids. And… BLAST OFF! Organoids were sent to
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Is the path to walking again just a spark away? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Enter Simone Romeni and team at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. They’re paving the way for spinal cord injury recovery. They use a groundbreaking treatment called high-frequency epidural electrical stimulation.
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