Flying on America’s busiest travel day? May The Force be with you! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Jason Steffens of Fermilab wondered: What’s the fastest way to board a plane? He found: LEAST efficient, boarding seats starting front row to back. SECOND worst? That
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In your face! Times eight! Ouch! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… Question: Who’s crueler than a kid playing dodgeball? Answer: an octopus!! Peter Godfrey-Smith and the University of Sydney watched the violence from the sidelines. They analyzed twenty hours of octopus footage! These
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Saving energy? We’re talkin’ Little Shop of Horrors! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Consider the carnivorous pitcher plant. It’s a trash bag shaped plant that eats bugs to overcome nutrient deficient soil. That gave Anne-Kristin Lenz and the University of Bristol an idea for
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Can we afford this BUZZ TOWN?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Are bee habitats getting GENTRIFIED? Today’s urban gardens are full of harvest crops and ornamental flowers. Better place for bees than an empty lot with unkempt weeds, right? RIGHT? Enter Frances Sivakoff and
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Just WALK it off…but WHERE? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Studies have shown higher rates of stress in the concrete jungle. Can a change of scenery help us out? Enter Sonja Sudimac and Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Human Development. They randomly assigned sixty-three
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I’m not drinking alone! I’ve got… my plant friends! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Yes, plants have Thirsty Thursday too, especially in droughts. So, scientists want to stabilize crop growth during water restriction. Could the answer be… alcohol? Raise your glass to Khurram Bashir
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Do spiders dream of… eight-legged sheep?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science… saying… Wait! Spiders… dream? Well, to do that, they’d have to experience REM sleep. That’s a deep sleep state characterized by rapid eye movements. That’s when most of our HUMAN dreams occur! Now,
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Ahoy! Thar’s gold in that junk drawer! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science… saying… At least keys, old cell phones, those weird little IKEA joints to—argh!—assemble your Bilsbo’s. All are metal, of increasing demand today, and expensive to mine. Enterprising? You could be like Vancouver’s
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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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