Brain surgery is a gamble, but the odds just got better! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Removing brain tumors is tricky — surgeons can’t immediately tell the difference between cancerous and healthy brain cells. But wait… Enter Dr. Sachi Maeda and team from Nagoya
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What’s inside a cosmic snowball? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Between stars drift icy time capsules! They might hold clues to how life began. Let’s take a peek! Enter Hanna Bouwman and team from Leiden University. They built a huge library of space-ice samples. Each has
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Blood is thicker than… OATMEAL?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Extra weight brings extra fat to your blood, and heart trouble. What if we could dodge it without losing a pound? Enter Stefanie Zorn’s team at the University of Cambridge . They studied a
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Ready for a dia-beatdown? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. In Type-1 diabetes, the immune system attacks the pancreas, stopping insulin production. This messes up blood sugar regulation. Patients need daily insulin injections to survive. Is there another way? Enter Trevor Riechman and team at
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Can we REALLY learn new vocabulary in our sleep? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Franziska Schmidig and her team in Bern investigated! They tested twenty volunteers to see if sleeping brains could learn new words. They used nonsense pairs, like “tofer–bird,” so only new
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New bombshells have entered Love Island: the mini-livers! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. A bad immune reaction is like a bad date, but we all need love, er, liver therapies… that are safe… right? Meet the DASHING mini-liver – by Fadoua El Abdellaoui Soussi
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“Just add water!” And power! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. No, I’m not talking about Hamburger Helper. We’re looking at batteries: they power everything, but create mountains of waste. Can we invent one that’s green and simple? Enter Gustav Nyström and colleagues from Switzerland.
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Is artificial intelligence just a big ol’ boys club? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. AI learns from the internet – it soaks up EVERYTHING! The good, the bad…and the biases? Douglas Guilbeault and colleagues at Stanford studied how prejudice affects chatbots. The researchers analyzed
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There’s something in the air… This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Could wildfire smoke in the Amazon reach… the South Pole?! Enter Sudip Chakraborty from the University of Maryland. He used satellite data to track black carbon, a chemical produced by combustion. His team determined
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Friends don’t let friends… get wrinkly??? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Friendships are one of life’s joys, but could they also slow aging? Dr. Anthony Ong and team at Cornell studied over two thousand middle-aged adults to find out. They compared bloodwork to biological
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