People are always asking where’s the beef, but never WHO’S THE BEEF? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. For eons, we lacked the technology to tell the genomic difference between wagyu cows and… other cows. Thank god those days are over. Enter Paulene S. Pineda
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Round 1: Aluminum versus extreme heat. Fight! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Metal 3D printing quickly produces unique geometric parts made from aluminum alloys. But current alloys tend to crack under high heat. How can aluminum TOUGHEN up? Enter Noaki Takara and team at
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These dinosaur bones were made for walking! But how?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. It’s not enough to just eye-ball some fossils and guess how a creature moved. For that, we need bone-on-bone mapping. Armita Manafzadeh and team at Yale University built 3D models
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That baby black hole is built like a linebacker! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. For years, astronomers have spotted mysterious “little red dots” in the sky. They were believed to be black holes that were impossibly massive for their age. Not so, according to
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I spy with my little chameleon eye… everything! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. For centuries, chameleons have stumped us. How do they pull off a full three-sixty-degree peek? Enter Emily Collins and team from Sam Houston State University. They dissected and X-rayed the brains
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(Bleeeep)!!! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Can cursing give you SCIENTIFICALLY stronger muscles? Richard Stephens and team at Keele University put this to the test. Volunteers held themselves up in a chair push-up for as long as possible. As they supported themselves, they
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Don’t mind me, I’m just taking a little jellyfish nap! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Jellyfish don’t have a brain, just a spread of neurons. So why would they even need sleep? Enter Raphael Aguillon and team from Bar-Ilan University. They discovered that jellyfish
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Hallelujah, it’s raining… METAL?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Astronomers have discovered an ultra-hot, distant planet called WASP-76b, where daytime temperatures are hot enough to vaporize metals. Ouch! David Ehrenreich and team at the University of Geneva analyzed starlight filtering through the planet’s atmosphere.
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Need… blood… NOW! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Mosquitoes need blood to lay eggs! But if they are carrying disease, that’s bad news for their hosts. In Brazil, tracking feeding habits helps prevent dengue and Zika outbreaks. But what happens if mosquitoes suddenly lose
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All quiet on the … digestion front?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Your immune system usually “trains” soldier cells at lymph nodes — before shipping them out. But what if the battle is too far away? Enter John Gridley and Arash Grakoui from Emory
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