Is pain relief aFOOT? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Back pain got you bent out of shape? Relief may be right under your feet! Enter Rayane Haddadj and team at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. They tracked the walking habits of over
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Pixels might be affecting your psyche! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Is your inner operating system getting rewired from gaming or doomscrolling? Enter Yunyu Xiao and team at Columbia University. They tested the effects of screen time on teens’ emotional health. These teens were
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Splat! It was a fly-by pooing! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Researchers believe that seabird waste could play a key role in marine ecosystems. But how do we even study their splatter patterns at sea? Leo Uesaka and Katsufumi Sato from the University of
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Pressure is higher, conditions are dire, under the sea! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Deep sea robots face many challenges. The cold and the pressure down below squishes their soft materials, and the bots struggle to move. Guorui Li and team from Harbin Engineering
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There’s gold in them there… MICROBES?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Over time, germs become resistant to our antibiotic hand sanitizers. Yuck! Can we stop them by… panning for ancient organisms?! Enter Marcelo Torres and team at the University of Pennsylvania. They studied archaea
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Roll over Beethoven! And Balto too! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Who doesn’t love a snow dog story? Except the part where they die heroically. Like a thousand year old breed of endangered Inuit-Canadian sled dogs! Meet the noble Qimmit. These fluffy boys have
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How does nature nurture your newborn?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Plant life in cities improves our health. But could it also make an impact… in the womb? Enter Mengyi Li and team from the University of California Irvine. They scoured health records of
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Can floss STRING along a healthier future? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Needles are scary, but germs are scarier. What if staying healthy meant only a little dental TLC? Enter Rohan Ingrole and team at Texas Tech University. Instead of needles, they used floss
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Join the enzyme evolution revolution… today! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Enzymes are cellular machines that perform a wide variety of critical tasks for human health. What if we crank them up? Researchers have tried a technique called ‘continuous evolution’ that uses millions of
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Is it just me, or is seafood getting … crunchier? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. The waves of the Atlantic carry an invisible danger – nanoplastics. These particles are tiny; about a thousand times smaller than a grain of sand. Enter Dušan Materić and
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