Episodes – Page 34 – The Loh Down On Science

Maximizing your GAINS

April 8, 2025 Meggie Danielson

Pump some iron… into your noggin?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Blood flow is vital for distributing nutrients, vitamins, and oxygen to our organs – especially our brains! Philip Ainslie at the University of Otago has a fascinating theory about that. So, sitting around slows

Tiny Flowers

April 7, 2025 Julie Loritsch

Stop and smell the… NANO BOTS?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. How do you picture medicine delivery robots? Like tiny space crafts? What about flowers! Dong Wook Kim and team at Max Planck Institute designed particle-sized bloom-bots. But they’re not just pretty! Sound waves

Smarter Cancer Predictions

April 4, 2025 Julie Loritsch

Can AI tell if you have cancer? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. If only cancer came with warning labels! Even for doctors, tumors can be misleading, like with Merkel cell carcinoma – a skin cancer. What about letting A-I take a look? Enter DeepMerkel,

The Sound of Home

April 3, 2025 Salla Kim

A benefit concert for the ocean? Try a reef instrument! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Like thriving happy homes—think laughing kids, barking dogs—healthy coral reefs bustle with noise. Damaged reefs are much quieter. Light can help larval polyps settle and coral reefs grow. “What

Tiny T-Cells Pack a Mighty Punch

April 2, 2025 Meggie Danielson

Don’t let the chubby cheeks fool you! Babies are stronger than you think! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. CD8 T-cells are the soldiers of your immune system, trained to attack enemy microbes and infected cells! But, how are these T cells different when you’re

An Unlikely Source

April 1, 2025 Salla Kim

Those wild birds eat WHAT? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Alice Dunbar and team from the University of South Australia studied the role of foraging on wild birds’ gut health. Okay, we mean coprophagy: eatin’ poop. Ew. But wait! Synthesizing previous studies on birds’

Molecules on the Move

March 31, 2025 Matt Sandoval

I see the light! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Treating disease can be like a shot in the dark. If only we could see better. How can we brighten things up? Enter, Lila Halpers and team at the University of California, Irvine. They looked

Got Insulin?

March 28, 2025 Salla Kim

Got… Insulin? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Over 10 percent of Americans have diabetes. With not enough insulin to regulate blood sugar, diabetics have to—ouch—inject it. If only we could just DRINK our insulin… wait… could we? Paulo Monzani and a team from the

Jetlag Jitters

March 27, 2025 Julie Loritsch

Jetlag… in your tummy?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. European vacation! Get ready for amazing food. But wait. No matter how much you eat, nothing hits the spot after you land. Why? It turns out that transatlantic flights mess up your sleep cycle AND

Eye Remember That!

March 26, 2025 Julie Loritsch

Welcome to the memory storage department – graveyard shift! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Your sleep is divided into different stages, each helping store memories from the day. But how does your brain sort through WHICH memories to keep? Enter Hongyu Chang and team