Can E.T. survive UV?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Other planets are uninhabitable because stars emit intense ultraviolet radiation. This UV radiation is toxic to living organisms, or is it…? Enter Tejinder Singh and team from the Desert Research Institute. They wanted to know
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What’s turning the Red Planet green?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… A Martian aurora! The first visible one, captured by NASA’s Perseverance! Elise Knutsen and team at the University of Colorado spotted this phenomenon after a solar storm. The charged solar particles zoomed toward
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It’s a radioactive jungle out there! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. From bunny suits to fallout shelters – there’s a cottage industry of protecting humans from destroying ourselves. Even our vaccines need to be kept safe from radiation. But how? Enter Brian Hoffman and
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