Deserts covered in GLASS – sounds like the latest sci-fi film universe! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. In Chile’s Atacama Desert, the sand is littered with football-sized, green-black glass chunks. But these aren’t human artifacts. What sculpted this glass garden? Geologist Peter Schultz at
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It’s a bird… it’s a plane… It’s Oumuamua!!! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. In 2017, astronomers detected the first interstellar object passing through our solar system. Oumuamua! They couldn’t tell if it was an asteroid or comet, but either way, it sped
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Deserts covered in GLASS – sounds like the latest sci-fi film universe! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. In Chile’s Atacama Desert, the sand is littered with football-sized, green-black glass chunks. But these aren’t human artifacts. What sculpted this glass garden? Geologist Peter Schultz at
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Men are from Mars. Women, from Venus. Really? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying not exactly. But check out this intriguing new cosmic discovery from the University of Nice. Researchers there were simulating conditions commonly found in comets. Why? To see if life might
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Space — the final frontier! And your next vacation destination? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying B-Y-O-O! Bring your own oxygen – there isn’t any! But what if space is more habitable than we thought? Caltech researchers Yunxi Yao and Konstantinos Giapis reached for
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