Do you ever feel guilty reaching for a basket of fries? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. French fries are America’s favorite sidekick! Crispy, salty, impossible to resist! Sadly, they soak up LOTS of oil. Yash Shah and colleagues at the University of Illinois wanted
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Release the Kraken!…’s proof of existence…. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. The Kraken is a legendary giant squid that terrorized sailors at sea. Fossils from hundreds of millions of years ago suggest that it may actually have been more than a legend. Shin Ikegami and
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Is soil just… dust in the wind? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Across the United States, human activity leaves soil exposed to erosion. How much are we losing? Enter Shahab Aldin Shojaeezadeh and team from the University of Kassel. Researchers combined erosion models, climate data,
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Think vitamin D is only for bones? THINK again. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Could low vitamin D levels in older adults be an early predictor for dementia, later in life? Enter Martin Mulligan and team from the University of Galway. They measured vitamin
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Are coral reefs teeming with invisible treasure?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… Yes! And what a bonanza: bacteria with special properties that we can use as tools! For example, some bacteria have anti-tumor properties. We just have to look for them. So Fabienne
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Help! A star went missing. Who’s the culprit? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Black holes usually sit in the middle of galaxies, quietly waiting for stars to wander too close. But sometimes… they don’t stay put! Enter Yuhan Yao at University of California, Berkeley.
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Is the law failing your dinner plate? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. California allows some amounts of toxins in foods without warnings. The catch? Legal limits assume everyone eats the same way. Shahir Masri and team from University of California, Irvine compared various cultural diets
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Don’t worry, it’ll grow back! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. For patients needing organ transplants, the wait can take years. But what if we could grow organs… on a dish?? Amy Stoddard [Amy STOD-urd] and team at Harvard University did just that! They identified
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Got fungus on the brain? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Your brain works because different regions constantly send messages to each other. It doesn’t work as well when we’re depressed. But Psilocybin from certain mushrooms, may help by changing which brain pathways grow stronger.
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COVID-19 created uncertainty. Perhaps more than it should have. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Presented with accurate data about COVID cases, many remained skeptical. Even in quote-unquote “liberal California” people accused health officials of spreading misinformation! Enter Joshua Murillo and a team from multiple
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