Bearly Awake

Sleep long, stay STRONG?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Grizzly bears — “Sleeping Beauties” of the animal world!  They hibernate all winter with NO FOOD.  But come springtime, bears emerge from their dens, strong as ever. For we humans, however, even short bed rest

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Champion Swimmers

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the…ocean?!? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science We know ocean temperatures change. But exactly how does that affect fish? Enter researchers at McMaster and St. Andrew’s Universities. Specifically, they investigated how early exposure to heat would

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