minerals – The Loh Down On Science

A Salty Clue to Life Beyond Earth?

March 6, 2025 Johnny Boutros

What does space taste like? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is back! With flavor! What flavor? Rock samples from Bennu, a billions of years old asteroid. And the taste is… familiar! Salt minerals! Similar to what’s left behind when water evaporates

Organ Farming

October 14, 2024 Paula Gardner

Vitamins… for veggies?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science… You are what you eat, and some health conditions can be improved with vitamins and minerals. Less potassium for kidney issues, more iodine for thyroids. So, what if we tailored how much is in our food?

Soft Dino Shells

October 21, 2020 Heidi Waite

A clutch of soft-shelled snake eggs surrounded by dirt

Which came first? The chicken or the soft shelled egg? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. For ages it was believed that dinosaur eggs were hard shelled – like chicken eggs! But is there a crack in that theory? Mark Norell and colleagues from the

Just Add Mushrooms

April 2, 2018 Rebecca Johnson

Look out! Pothole! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Potholes and cracks. Every commuter’s nightmare. If only the problem could fix itself! Enter Congrui Jin and her team at Binghamton and Rutgers universities. They filled in the cracks by hiring some self-motivated construction workers. Who?