Bad mood? Try breathing. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. During stressful times, we take deep breaths. Why does that help? Amy Kartar, Alessandro Colsanti, and team at the University of Sussex studied this question. Thirty participants breathed deeply for thirty minutes while listening to
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Here comes snowman season… in your cells?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Our cells are like tiny cities, running on little factories called organelles. What does this cellular architecture look like? Ask Amirrasoul Tavakoli and team at NIH, Bethesda. They used a tool that
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Ever heard of Goldilocks and the three… black holes?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Black holes are either supermassive or quite small. Except for a medium-sized freak accident! Researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory were studying waves in space time – caused
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Do you ever think your sibling comes from a different species entirely? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Children usually look like their parents! But… what about ants? Yannick Juvé and team from the University of Montpellier played Maurie Povich for harvester ants. Ant males
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Hey diabetics! Imagine ditching the daily needle routine! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. In Type 1 diabetes, our body’s defenses accidentally wipe out our insulin-making cells. Doctors try swapping in donated cells, but those get smoked too! S-O-S! Save Our Cells! Enter Per-Ola Carlsson’s
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Your tummy knows what it likes. What about your teeth? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. What’s on your plate might shape your smile! Ghazal Aarabi and team at University of Hamburg-Eppendorf studied this. Over six thousand participants logged their eating habits and received dental
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Got a boo-boo? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying.. Ouch! Some cuts and scrapes just won’t go away! Those are called chronic wounds, and they can lead to serious infections. To help fix this, Guopu Chen and team created a special healing gel made
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Is your stomach grumbling? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… Watch the clock! Daily routines change as you age, including WHEN you eat breakfast and dinner! What might this timing say about your health? Enter Hassan Dashti and team from Harvard Medical School. They
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Your eyes say more than your lips ever could. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Can your eyes reveal how much your brain remembers? Jordana Wynn and a Canadian team saw the potential. They tracked how people – ranging from healthy young adults to amnesia
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Can we recharge our brains’ batteries? Literally?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Alzheimer’s seems to drain our brains. Some say the disease’s sticky plaques are what causes memory loss. How? Enter Bruce Yankner and team at Harvard. They wondered if the plaques are actually
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