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Whether the topic is popcorn or particle physics, you can count on BrainStuff to explore -- and explain -- the everyday science in the world around us.

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Episodes (4820)

BrainStuff Classics: How Do Starling Murmurations Work?

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Sep 5, 20268:19completed

Was Commodus One of Rome's Worst Emperors?

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Sep 4, 202612:09completed

What If Earth Had Rings?

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Sep 2, 202612:46pending

Why Do We Blush When We're Embarrassed?

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Aug 31, 202610:23pending

BrainStuff Classics: How Are Ethnicity and Race Different?

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Aug 29, 20269:41pending

How Does Butter Get Its Texture, Flavor, and Color?

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Aug 28, 202614:02pending

Why Do We Call Dibs and Shotgun, and Who Was the Real McCoy?

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Aug 26, 20269:22pending

Why Is Siberia's Batagaika Crater Known as the Doorway to Hell?

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Aug 24, 202610:56pending

BrainStuff Classics: How Would Authorities Handle a Murder in Space?

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Aug 22, 20268:18pending

How Does Taste Work?

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Aug 21, 202613:59pending

How Did Weasels Get a Bad Rap?

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Aug 19, 202615:38pending

How Did Napoleon I, the Emperor of the French, Rise and Fall?

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Aug 17, 202615:09pending

BrainStuff Classics: How Did Alchemy Create Chemistry?

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Aug 15, 20267:12pending

How Did Sundown Towns Say the Quiet Part Out Loud?

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Aug 14, 202611:36pending

Why Do We Yawn, and Why Is It Catching?

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Aug 12, 202612:03pending

How Do Rip Currents Work?

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Aug 10, 20269:28pending

BrainStuff Classics: Can the Same Animal Evolve Twice?

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Aug 8, 20267:21pending

Where Did Tomatoes Come From?

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Aug 7, 202610:42pending

How Does Aspirin Know Where to Go in Your Body?

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Aug 5, 202614:06pending

What Is the Deepest Hole in the World?

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Aug 3, 202614:51pending

BrainStuff Classics: Is Canned Food Really Worse Than Fresh or Frozen?

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Aug 1, 20268:20pending

How Do Octopuses Work?

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Jul 31, 202613:32pending

How Do We Get Iron and Steel Out of Stone?

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Jul 29, 202611:41pending

Did a Journalist's Probe into JFK's Assassination Lead to Her Death?

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Jul 27, 202613:34pending

BrainStuff Classics: Could the Great Depression Happen Again?

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Jul 25, 20269:26pending

How Many Arachnids Live in Your Eyelashes?

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Jul 24, 20266:29pending

Are Induction Cooktops Better than Gas or Electric?

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Jul 22, 202612:13pending

How Did Mastodons Defend the Legitimacy of America?

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Jul 20, 202613:34pending

BrainStuff Classics: Why Do Some People Eat Dirt?

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Jul 18, 20267:25pending

What Advice About Lightning Is Wrong?

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Jul 17, 20269:54pending

How Did Wild Bill Hickok Become America's First Gunslinger?

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Jul 15, 202612:41pending

What Colors Are Impossible?

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Jul 13, 202614:06pending

BrainStuff Classics: What's the Controversy Behind 'Mary Had a Little Lamb'?

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Jul 11, 20266:31pending

What Was the World's Largest Nuclear Weapon?

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Jul 10, 202610:52pending

How Do Red-Tailed Hawks Work?

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Jul 8, 20269:24pending

How Does Ketchup Work?

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Jul 6, 202611:37pending

BrainStuff Classics: How Can You Help a Friend with Depression?

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Jul 4, 20266:59pending

How Does the Myth of the Minotaur Work?

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Jul 3, 202611:46pending

How Do Manatees Work?

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Jul 1, 20269:37pending

Why Do We Put Diamonds on Engagement Rings?

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Jun 29, 202611:55pending

How Did the Stonewall Riots Work?

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Jun 27, 202616:58pending

How Did the Smallest Primates Get Such Big Eyes?

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Jun 26, 20268:28pending

What Would Happen If You Swallowed a Leech?

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Jun 24, 20268:38pending

How Can Rhubarb Grow in the Dark?

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Jun 19, 202610:28pending

How Does the Blue-Footed Booby Work?

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Jun 17, 20268:42pending

Who Was Helen of Troy?

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Jun 15, 20267:27pending

How Does Your Heart Get Blood?

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Jun 12, 202611:43pending

How Do Butterflies Get Their Brilliant Colors?

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Jun 10, 202610:06pending

How Did William the Conquerer Transform England?

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Jun 8, 202611:36pending

Could Dilophosaurus Really Spit Poison?

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Jun 5, 20269:28pending
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