Octopus man, octopus man, does whatever an octopus can! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science As a kid, did you ever swim to the bottom of the pool to grab a toy? Pretty hard, wasn’t it. What can we learn about grabbing things underwater from
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Need a QUICK pick me up? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… Don’t you just love cold brew? It’s iced coffee’s less acidic, less bitter cousin. But, it normally takes over TWELVE hours to make! Is there a FASTER way to get that same
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Air power plus water power equals… BUBBLE POWER?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Who doesn’t love blowing bubbles? It takes ENERGY though. So where does that energy go when they POP? Can we harness it? As a bubble forms, the gas inside pushes against
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Birds of a feather take risks together! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. You’re finally making enough money to invest. But should you buy relatively safe bonds or riskier index funds? What’s everyone else buying? And how do their choices affect yours? Wataru Toyokawa and
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SHHHH! I’m trying to SLEEP. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. City noise is a big issue. But not for moths! Their scaly wings literally have NOISE-CANCELING abilities – it keeps them from becoming bat food. Could MOTHS offer a solution for noise pollution? Thomas
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Cardiovascular patients take heart! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Heart problems are notoriously hard to treat. Hearts can’t repair themselves like other organs… But can artificial hearts fill the literal void? Huibin Chang’s team of researchers at Harvard explored what they thought was the
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Boo Boo, stop parroting everything I say! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science… saying… Babies seem to know what they’re talking about… but how do we go from “goo-goo-ga-ga” to sophisticated languages? Rory Eggleston and Karl Berg from the University of Texas looked at birds
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What’s the difference between the Baltimore World Trade Center and New York’s One World Tower? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying — One is a prism and the other is an ANTIprism! 3D prisms have two parallel shapes connected with rectangles. Think — cereal
HELP! Turn on the bat-signal! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Like birds, bats have wings. But they’re actually mammals like humans! Like us, they’re social creatures and have to learn to talk to one another. How? Ahana Fernandez, from Leibniz Institute for Evolution and
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Can bats see into the future? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. SWOOP! A black blob dashes by – BATS! Their flight path seems so random – how do these speedy creatures keep track of where they are and where they’re going? Nicholas Dotson and
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