Beanie Babies are back… on the menu?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Growing food is great! Chemical fertilizers polluting the environment? Not so great. Enter Nicola Cook and team at the John Innes Center in the U-K. They found a way to give plants a
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Water and technology don’t mix! But what if they did? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Scientists from China’s Yibin Academy of Southwest University floated an electrifying idea for… MARINE BATTERIES! Hmmm. Batteries use electrodes to direct the flow of ions, like SODIUM, to power
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Pump some iron… into your noggin?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Blood flow is vital for distributing nutrients, vitamins, and oxygen to our organs – especially our brains! Philip Ainslie at the University of Otago has a fascinating theory about that. So, sitting around slows
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Stop and smell the… NANO BOTS?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. How do you picture medicine delivery robots? Like tiny space crafts? What about flowers! Dong Wook Kim and team at Max Planck Institute designed particle-sized bloom-bots. But they’re not just pretty! Sound waves
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Can AI tell if you have cancer? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. If only cancer came with warning labels! Even for doctors, tumors can be misleading, like with Merkel cell carcinoma – a skin cancer. What about letting A-I take a look? Enter DeepMerkel,
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A benefit concert for the ocean? Try a reef instrument! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Like thriving happy homes—think laughing kids, barking dogs—healthy coral reefs bustle with noise. Damaged reefs are much quieter. Light can help larval polyps settle and coral reefs grow. “What
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Don’t let the chubby cheeks fool you! Babies are stronger than you think! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. CD8 T-cells are the soldiers of your immune system, trained to attack enemy microbes and infected cells! But, how are these T cells different when you’re
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Those wild birds eat WHAT? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Alice Dunbar and team from the University of South Australia studied the role of foraging on wild birds’ gut health. Okay, we mean coprophagy: eatin’ poop. Ew. But wait! Synthesizing previous studies on birds’
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I see the light! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Treating disease can be like a shot in the dark. If only we could see better. How can we brighten things up? Enter, Lila Halpers and team at the University of California, Irvine. They looked
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Got… Insulin? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Over 10 percent of Americans have diabetes. With not enough insulin to regulate blood sugar, diabetics have to—ouch—inject it. If only we could just DRINK our insulin… wait… could we? Paulo Monzani and a team from the
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