Summer’s coming and the heat is on! Unfortunately. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Our sweat is odorless, but our armpits can, er, stink. Gurdeep Minhas and colleagues at Oxford found the culprit. In armpit bacteria, there is a transport protein. Picture a conveyor belt bringing
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Aaah, a great work out! Wait, is that me? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Your morning workout comes with you to work — on your clothes! EVERYONE knows when you’ve been to the gym. But what if your CLOTHES were the deodorant? Filipa Goncalves
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Exercise gives us that healthy glow…but uh-oh, B.O.! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Sweat is our body’s cooling-down mechanism. But does it have to be so smelly? Armpits, I’m looking at you! Our sweat is odorless, so what’s all the stink about? Gurdeep Minhas
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