Ever been told not to play with your food? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Flamingos feed by dancing around with their heads underwater. But what’s going on underneath the surface? Dr. Victor Ortega-Jimenez and team at Georgia Tech dove headfirst into the question. They
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The itsy-bitsy spider… grew bigger in its cozy nest! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Dogs, cows and humans all nurse their young. But ever wonder how SPIDERS nourish their babies? YIKES! Zhanqi Chen from the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated a species of jumping
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Hummingbirds: Cute little nectar sippers, or battle-hardened killers? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Hummingbirds are darling! But it’s a bird-eat-bird world –sometimes they have to fight to survive! At University of California, Berkeley, Alejandro Rico-Guevara studies the evolution of hummingbirds. He wondered: What can
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