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Quantum Calculations

March 12, 2026 Eirene Ednacot

Even computers need help with math! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. As electronics get smaller, we have to understand smaller objects – down to atoms! Energy is constantly in flux at the molecular level. Calculating HOW and HOW MUCH takes million-dollar supercomputers. Enter Hossein

Prickly Puffers

January 10, 2020 Kendra Walters

I huff, and puff, and say…grow a spine! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Most fish have scales – but not pufferfish! They traded theirs for spines! And for a good reason. When threatened, the pufferfish will PUFF out their spines to twice their normal