Music as medicine?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Has a song ever moved you to tears? Music’s emotional impact has inspired researchers from Shanghai to explore its potential to treat depression. They focused on its ability to activate brain circuits connected to emotion and
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Forget Inauguration Day, what about the politics of… parking tickets? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. An unusual 2007 study, by Columbia University and UC Berkeley, looked at foreign diplomats’ parking fines in New York. In just five years, United Nations diplomats racked up a
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Fuzzies? Yes! Sneezies? NO! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. That darn cat hair messes with our allergies. Wait, it doesn’t?! The real culprit is a protein called Fel d 1 found in skin particles and saliva. Sang Ryeul Lee and team at Utah State
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Forget Batman and Robin, there’s a new super hero team in town! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Cancer cells are the ultimate diabolical villains. Drugs can activate T cells, our immune system’s caped crusaders. But they can also cause collateral damage to healthy cells.
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Would you be a good dead spider and grab that for me? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. How come when spiders die, their legs curl up all nasty? Ask Te Faye Yap and team from Rice University! They learned that spiders DON’T use muscles
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Is Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse… DYING?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Scientists are keeping a close telescope on the tenth brightest star, Betelgeuse. Jared Goldberg and team from Flatiron Institute saw it dim and brighten. This pulsing light usually signals a star’s DEATH! BUT a closer
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We can all use a helping … finger? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Even doctors make mistakes. We’re all human after all! Or at least for now…Dun! Dun! DUN! Enter robots – good robots – and Hongbo Wang’s team at the University of Science
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January 10th: Happy Houseplant Appreciation Day! This is Sandra with the Loh Down on Science. You’ve heard: “Don’t water your plants at noon, because they’ll burn!” Botanists from Hungary’s Eotvos University wondered if sun rays and water droplets could actually fry plants. They combined computer models with experimental tests on
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You’ve heard of e-waste, what about Lululemon waste? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Fast fashion generates so much clothing waste: over ninety million tons annually! Sadly, less than one percent of our old clothes currently get recycled. How can we do better? Enter chemical
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Lights, camera… neural action! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… What is your brain actually doing while you watch a movie? Reza Rajimehr at MIT observed brain activity in two hundred people watching film clips. Why? To understand how our brains process information from
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