Are women’s cycles catching waves with monthly tides? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Notice that the Moon waxes and wanes each month? Women’s bodies might be keeping time in a similar way. Enter Charlotte Helfrich-Förster and team at the University of Padova. This team
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Moooss iiiiiin spaaaace! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Moss is one of the hardiest plants. It can survive volcanic lava fields and the peaks of the Himalayas! But… Can moss survive… in space? Chang-hyun Maeng from Hokkaido University and team investigated! They attached moss
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Hold on! What’s this say…? Oh! It says “I’m Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science.” Whoof. Getting old is hard on your eyes. But! Alexandra Bernardo-Colón and team at the National Eye Institute just might keep blindness at bay. Aging and disease cause the death of eye
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Are raccoons evolving right under our noses? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. As cities grow, wild animals may be changing alongside us. Does that mean they’re… domesticating?!? Enter Artem Apostolov and team at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. They compared skulls of raccoons
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The eyes are the window to the soul… And your heart too? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Tired of checking your heart health with pinchy blood pressure sleeves. Just take a retinal scan! The blood vessels in our eyes display unique branching. These are
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Keep watching the stars! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. The VASCO project monitors anomalies in the sky, like strange lights and vanishing stars. While studying astronomical photographs from the 50’s, Stephen Bruehl and Beatriz Villarroel noticed something strange. Bright spots were found in the sky the
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Masterpiece Theatre presents: Tears of an Onion. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Cut an onion, and enzymes break up sulfur compounds. But how do they get in your eye? Zixuan Wu and team at Cornell University compared onion cutting with varying knife sharpness and
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Good news! Unless you’re a dentist… This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Tooth enamel is armor for your teeth. But there’s a problem – it gets destroyed by everyday life. Chewing, bacteria, that second cup of coffee… Currently, we polish our enamel with toothpaste. But
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Do whales tell tall tales? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Sperm whales communicate through sequences of clicking sounds called “codas.” How much meaning do these codas carry? Gasper Begus and team at UC Berkeley used machine learning to study codas. They found that the
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Tired of leftovers? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Current food waste disposal methods can lead to greenhouse gases and air pollution. Beenish Saba and team at Ohio State University found a disgusting solution. Bacteria CAN turn food into USEFUL lab chemicals like acetate, butanol,
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