Help! A star went missing. Who’s the culprit? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Black holes usually sit in the middle of galaxies, quietly waiting for stars to wander too close. But sometimes… they don’t stay put! Enter Yuhan Yao at University of California, Berkeley.
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Is the law failing your dinner plate? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. California allows some amounts of toxins in foods without warnings. The catch? Legal limits assume everyone eats the same way. Shahir Masri and team from University of California, Irvine compared various cultural diets
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Don’t worry, it’ll grow back! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. For patients needing organ transplants, the wait can take years. But what if we could grow organs… on a dish?? Amy Stoddard [Amy STOD-urd] and team at Harvard University did just that! They identified
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Got fungus on the brain? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Your brain works because different regions constantly send messages to each other. It doesn’t work as well when we’re depressed. But Psilocybin from certain mushrooms, may help by changing which brain pathways grow stronger.
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COVID-19 created uncertainty. Perhaps more than it should have. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Presented with accurate data about COVID cases, many remained skeptical. Even in quote-unquote “liberal California” people accused health officials of spreading misinformation! Enter Joshua Murillo and a team from multiple
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When life gives you grapefruit… BLECH! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Bitter fruits can be hard to enjoy. Citrus grown in colder climates is extra bitter! If only there was a way to turn bitter into sweet… Well, Elena Plesser and team at the
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Scientists praise vitamin B-twelve. But what about B-one through eleven?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. B-twelve helps lower stroke risk. What do the other B vitamins do? Enter Xinge Zhang and team from the University of California, Irvine. They studied B-vitamins in the blood of
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Ouch! He got hit so hard his helmet changed color! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Brain injury monitoring is evolving in football for player safety. But determining the location and force of high-impact collisions is… challenging. A visual aid would help! Enter Marco Lo
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Was the cure for cancer inside us all along? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… In a way, yes. A global research team from Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber, and Maastricht University looked at the thymus. This organ trains immune cells. They used algorithms
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Must be something in the water… This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. On rainy days, road runoff carries tiny tire particles into nearby streams. Chemists found these particles release a toxic compound called 6-P-P-D-quinone. But how bad is it for our fishy friends? Enter Bonnie
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