Hit the gym before work, or after? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Paul Arciero from Skidmore College and team wondered: Does time of day make a difference with exercise? They assigned over fifty people to work out in the morning or evening. After twelve
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From H-5…. to high five! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. The H-5 bird flu is making animals sick and eggs expensive! And people can catch H-5 too from sick animals. What can we do about this invisible menace? Enter Joshin Kumar and team from
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Room for dessert? I don’t have room to breathe! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Even after dinner, your brain still craves sugar. Why? Enter Marielle Minère and team at Max Planck Institute. They discovered a brain circuit connecting fullness with sugar cravings. These neurons
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Rapunzel, Rapunzel! Let down your golden hairrr….conditioning secrets! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. There’s a problem with hair conditioners. They’re not too friendly to the environment! Many conditioners contain ingredients made from chemicals and petroleum. Is there a better recipe? Enter Fengyang Wang and
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Scared of Big Brother? You should be! This is Sandra Tsing Loh, with the Loh Down on Science. Meet Ian Richard, from the University of Sheffield, UK. Richard reviewed church records from Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Finland. He found that children born after a brother were almost always smaller than their
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Time heals all wounds—but how about honey? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Honey’s been slathered on wounds since King Tut. But did it HEAL or just STICK? Andrew Jull, from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, dug further. He pored over scientific publications, and
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A monitor for… the baby monitor?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Raising kids is a science – one that we need more data on. Enter Zhenzhen Weng and team at Stanford. They created HARMONI, an A-I tool that watches videos to study how kids and
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Let’s have a Dinner Party! But YOU host it! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. You’re gearing up for a fun night – and your blood is pumping with excitement! Is your heart getting you too worked up? Brian Hsueh and team at Stanford put
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Don’t come any closer! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. People with psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, tend to need more personal space. Why? Enter, Louis Vinke and team at Massachusetts General Hospital. They recruited healthy adults and participants diagnosed with schizophrenia. While participants watched
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Fight Night! In one corner, cancer. In the other…your immune system? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Traditional cancer treatments pack a punch – often with brutal side effects. How can we reduce those? Enter David Braun and team at Yale. They developed personalized vaccines
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