“BEE don’t kill my vibe! BEE don’t kill my vibe!” This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. A good mood is contagious, right? Is that what makes us human? Or is that what makes us… bees?! Enter Jose Romero-Gonzalez and team at Southern Medical University. They
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Ever seen a plant take a breather? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Pores in plant leaves control air and water flow. Nowadays, we can monitor that in HD. Enter Joseph Crawford and team from University of Illinois. They developed a system to learn everything
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You can’t pluck water out of thin air!…..Can you? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. The atmosphere holds a lot of water! The tricky part? Harvesting it. Condensing vapor by heating and cooling air eats up a ton of energy. So now what? Enter Ikra
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People are always asking where’s the beef, but never WHO’S THE BEEF? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. For eons, we lacked the technology to tell the genomic difference between wagyu cows and… other cows. Thank god those days are over. Enter Paulene S. Pineda
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Round 1: Aluminum versus extreme heat. Fight! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Metal 3D printing quickly produces unique geometric parts made from aluminum alloys. But current alloys tend to crack under high heat. How can aluminum TOUGHEN up? Enter Noaki Takara and team at
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These dinosaur bones were made for walking! But how?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. It’s not enough to just eye-ball some fossils and guess how a creature moved. For that, we need bone-on-bone mapping. Armita Manafzadeh and team at Yale University built 3D models
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That baby black hole is built like a linebacker! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. For years, astronomers have spotted mysterious “little red dots” in the sky. They were believed to be black holes that were impossibly massive for their age. Not so, according to
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I spy with my little chameleon eye… everything! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. For centuries, chameleons have stumped us. How do they pull off a full three-sixty-degree peek? Enter Emily Collins and team from Sam Houston State University. They dissected and X-rayed the brains
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(Bleeeep)!!! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Can cursing give you SCIENTIFICALLY stronger muscles? Richard Stephens and team at Keele University put this to the test. Volunteers held themselves up in a chair push-up for as long as possible. As they supported themselves, they
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Don’t mind me, I’m just taking a little jellyfish nap! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Jellyfish don’t have a brain, just a spread of neurons. So why would they even need sleep? Enter Raphael Aguillon and team from Bar-Ilan University. They discovered that jellyfish
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