Clean Energy’s Dirty Side

Does clean energy have a dirty downside? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Electric cars! Sleek, silent, and saving the planet! Or… are they? Jennifer L. Guelfo and team from Texas Tech and Duke University took a closer look at lithium-ion batteries. They detected PFAS

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Driving the Distance

Time to put your Tesla to the test! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Do more electric cars on the road mean less pollution? FIRST, we need to know how much they’re driven! Enter Lujin Zhao and team from George Washington University. Researchers analyzed over

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Electric Healing

Ribs and vertebral column bones

  Broken bone? No worries–here’s a bandaid! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying…could be true! Broken bones take weeks and weeks to heal. Can we supercharge the healing process? Enter Ritopa Das and researchers from the University of Connecticut. They knew: when a bone

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