Is the cure for cancer… psychedelic mushrooms?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… Of course not! But they could make life easier for cancer patients. How’s that? Enter Manish Agrawal’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. They ran a clinical trial for the drug
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Can E.T. survive UV?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Other planets are uninhabitable because stars emit intense ultraviolet radiation. This UV radiation is toxic to living organisms, or is it…? Enter Tejinder Singh and team from the Desert Research Institute. They wanted to know
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Gaston ate sixty eggs a day! How’s HIS cholesterol? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… Who knows? How bad is egg cholesterol, really? Sharayah Carter and team from the University of South Australia investigated. Forty-eight adults tried different diets for five weeks each. One
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Can we outwit cancer’s dirtiest tricks? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Pancreatic and colorectal cancers are among the deadliest. And mutations – like one named KRAS – put their growth into overdrive. What do we do? Zev Wainberg and team at UCLA tested a
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An elephant never forgets… but here’s my card, just in case. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Elephants are one of the most social animal species on earth! They even have names for each other! Who? Michael Pardo and team from Colorado State University recorded
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What if the Big Bang was a… big bite?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Hypothesis: Four billion years ago, a proto-planet, Theia, collided with Earth to form the moon. How do we know that? Enter Qian Yuan and team from Arizona State University. They
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Do you know which polished plumage contains a scintillating secret?! Zap! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. We know lasers from barcodes, surgeries… even cat toys! Human-made lasers usually rely on carefully engineered mirrors or crystals. But Anthony Fiorito the Third and team wondered: could
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There are many ways to woo a lady, but have you ever tried… barfing? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. For some flies, vomiting is quite the romantic gesture – but only in SOME species. Ryoya Tanaka and team investigated this odd behavior. They found
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Welcome to the New World, golden opportunities… or not. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Immigrants around the world often earn less than their local coworkers. Why? Enter Are Skeie Hermansen and team from Stockholm University. They looked for the reason behind wage gaps between
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You‘d know if you were drowning, right? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… WRONG! The feeling of drowning isn’t from lack of oxygen… It’s from too much carbon dioxide. But not for gray seals! HAUH? Enter J. Chris McKnight and team from the University
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