What does space taste like? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is back! With flavor! What flavor? Rock samples from Bennu, a billions of years old asteroid. And the taste is… familiar! Salt minerals! Similar to what’s left behind when water evaporates
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Taxi! I can’t remember how to get home! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Guess what: Taxi Drivers have a lower death rate from Alzheimers. What gives? Meet Vishal Patel and team at Harvard Medical School. They analyzed U.S. deaths across over four hundred different
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Who’s that rowdy DJ… in your lungs?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Ever had a party crasher? Meet T.mu, a gut bacteria turning your lungs into an unexpected rave. Kyle Burrows from the University of Toronto uncovered T.mu’s surprising role. It invites immune cells
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Look out! It’s the A-Team: A-I and A-S-L! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Sign language combines hand and body movements with facial expressions to communicate. Translator apps and software have to work very differently for this visual language. PLUS, sign language is not universal;
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The Oscars are this weekend! Do we smell…babies? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Mark Hauber, from the University of Auckland, New Zealand did a curious study. He tallied up the biological children—and Oscars—for some 100 famous actors. The upper echelon, with annual salaries in
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Let’s look at things in a whole new light! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Researchers have discovered a way to look inside the body like never before. No incisions, no fancy machines—just a splash of color. The Hong lab at Stanford University solved the
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Less food, longer life?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Healthy eating and restricting calories has shown to reduce aging. Is there a shortcut? Enter Qi Qu and team at Xiamen University. They compared blood samples from dieting mice versus well-fed mice. One significantly elevated
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Neuroscience goes punk? I’m a teenage lobotomy! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. No one wants to leave from their brain scan looking like Joey Ramone! But that bulky headgear for electroencephalograms is a guaranteed bad hair day. How can we make E-E-G’s … cooler
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It’s a radioactive jungle out there! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. From bunny suits to fallout shelters – there’s a cottage industry of protecting humans from destroying ourselves. Even our vaccines need to be kept safe from radiation. But how? Enter Brian Hoffman and
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Target acquired. Locked On. And… Bullseye! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Don’t you wish we could smart bomb cancer? Then check out CAR T-cell therapy. It turns immune cells into cancer protein-hunting missiles, effectively wiping out most of the cancer! Unfortunately, CAR T- cell
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