Guys! Are youuuuu hot or not? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Meet Amy Perfors of MIT. On the rating website hot or not dot com, she posted pictures of 24 friends, adding names in the upper corner. She then re-posted, changing the names. Hotness
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Hey guys, gals, non-binary humans—you think dating is hard? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… Pity the simultaneous hermaphrodite. An animal with BOTH sets of sex organs. While polyclad flatworms “mate,” they blast each other with jets of corrosive seminal fluid. It eats through
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How to kiss—ingest mints, pucker lips, tilt head? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Dianne Barrett, Julian Greenwood, and John McCullagh, from Stranmillis University College in Belfast, spied on kissing couples. On campus, and around Belfast, in pubs, bus stations, at the airport! Of the
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Six legged wallflowers don’t get… POLLINATED?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Imagine speed-dating, but you can’t hear anything. Think you’d make it to first base? Well, we’re not the only ones who wanna hear some smooth talk. Mosquitoes do too. Wait… Can we use
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Describe your personality … in ONE EMOJI! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Texting a friend? That winky face says more than you think! Dr. Simon Dubé at Indiana University explored how emotional awareness and intimacy influence emoji use. They surveyed around three hundred adults
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How are your fat cells “weighing in”? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Why is it so hard to keep weight off? Your body has a “memory” fighting against weight loss. This memory isn’t just psychological—it’s biological. Huh…? Laura Hinte and team at E-T-H Zurich
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Talk about a space oddity! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. At the center of most galaxies is a huge black hole. But are all black holes created equally? Nope! Enter Alejandro Borlaff and team. They reexamined noisy space data from over thirty years ago
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Click click! Brain selfie! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Diagnosing mental health disorders takes a VILLAGE of experts and medical tests. Despite progress, diagnoses are still taken with a BRAIN of salt. How can we do better? Enter Spencer Kinsey and team from Georgia
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Uh oh, spaghetti-o! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Foodies know, there’s a type of pasta for every occasion! Not just meat or cheese – we’re talking filters, biofuels, even wound healing! Really! But how do they get ‘em that small? Usually, we’d use nanofibers.
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Uh-oh! Follow request from Mom – should you accept? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Remember when Mom used to be cool? Hyenas do! Like humans, hyenas are social creatures – pack animals actually. Also like humans, they can use their parents’ social standing for
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