Here’s a cookie idea that’s LITERALLY bananas! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Meet Asima Shafi and Faizan Ahmad from Aligarh Muslim University. They knew banana peels actually contain many essential nutrients! The researchers replaced regular flour with banana peel flour to make sugar cookies.
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Could skin make us… skinny? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Today, everyone has fitness trackers and smart watches. You can check the status of your body whenever. But what if you forget to charge them? Is there an even easier way to monitor your
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Can’t resist PUPPY DOG EYES? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Meet Zsófia Bognár and team at Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary. They gave over ONE HUNDRED dogs a piece of sausage. And even MORE sausage if they looked at the tester! The researchers compared the
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Aww c’mon, shed a tear! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying … It’s good for you, and our cells agree! To communicate, cells release tiny packages carrying genetic information and proteins that travel through us. They don’t know where these info-pacs go. But some
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Feeling eco-virtuous in that Leaf or Tesla? Slow down! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. “Green energy—its drawn from sunlight, air and pixie dust!” Not. Powering e-car batteries? Still mostly fossil-fueled power plants. A typical EV battery? Mostly lithium, cobalt and nickel. Such metals come
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The World Series just ended, so let’s focus on Europe—sports hooligans! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Dutch acoustics engineers — Sander van Wijngaarden and Johan van Balkan — were soccer fans. Very annoyed soccer fans. The problem? Negative fan chanting. That’s a feedback loop of
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I LOVE back-to-back Zoom meetings! Said no one…EVER. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Melanie Brucks of Columbia University and Jonathan Levav at Stanford randomly paired up six hundred-plus people. Each pair worked together – either in person or virtually – to come up with
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Salad spinner? Too much effort! I’m Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Hospitals know ultraviolet light kills germs. But it’s super expensive! Enter Joshua Cassar and team from the U-S Department of Animal Science. They applied PULSES of UV light to diseases commonly found on food. Like E.
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Here’s presidential election science that may trigger a spit take! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Nerves on edge? Take the long view — Look back to 2008–we were all so young then! Obama versus McCain. Duke University neuroscientists wondered: Does vicariously participating in contests
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You gotta fight for your right…to fix your iPhone! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Meet Kyle Wiems, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo engineering student. 2003, Apple iBook falls off of his dorm bed! Electricity light’s dark, probably mechanical—loose wire, broken metal part— In the
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