Just WALK it off…but WHERE? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Studies have shown higher rates of stress in the concrete jungle. Can a change of scenery help us out? Enter Sonja Sudimac and Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Human Development. They randomly assigned sixty-three
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Could pregnancy be a walk in the park if it were… virtual?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Pregnancy is stressful—getting out in nature can ease that—but who has the time? What if technology could take you there, VIRTUALLY? Will SEEING green have the same
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Overwhelmed and feeling stressed? WALK it off…but WHERE? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Previous studies have shown higher rates of mental illness and stress in the concrete jungle. But can a change of scenery help us out? Enter Sonja Sudimac and her team at
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Emerge from your cocoon, butterfly! But not in the house. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science Monarch butterflies annually migrate from North to Central America. In the past decade, the wild monarch butterfly population dropped by eighty percent! The culprits? Climate change, habitat loss, insecticides,
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