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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)

Do Our Pinky Toes Serve a Purpose?

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Where Did the At Symbol Come From?

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BrainStuff Classics: What Can Babies See in the Womb?

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May 30, 20265:03pending

Can You Really Escape an Alligator by Running Zigzag?

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May 29, 202610:21pending

What Fueled the Feud of the Hatfields and McCoys?

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May 28, 202612:15pending

How Does Mayonnaise Work?

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May 27, 202610:04pending

How Did a Wisconsin Woman Lead a German Resistance to Nazis?

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May 20, 202610:45pending

Are Lobsters Functionally Immortal?

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May 19, 202613:03pending

Is It 'Jerry-Rigged' or 'Jury-Rigged'?

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May 18, 20265:19pending

How Did Beer Help Sell the Myth of Custer's Last Stand?

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May 12, 202610:08pending

How Does Bioluminescence Work?

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May 11, 202612:16pending

How Is Maillardet's Automaton Still Wowing Us After 200 Years?

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May 8, 20269:28pending

How Do Tiny Capers Pack Such a Big Flavor Punch?

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May 4, 20266:36pending

What Do A.M., P.M., and SOS Stand For?

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May 1, 20269:18pending

How Do Fainting Goats Work?

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Apr 23, 20269:04pending

Does Smog Make Sunsets More Beautiful?

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Apr 22, 20268:23pending

Why Does Albania Have Hundreds of Thousands of Bunkers?

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Apr 21, 20268:00pending

What Pranks Have Astronauts Pulled?

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Apr 1, 20268:40pending

How Can Your Body Learn to Tolerate Cold?

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Mar 30, 202610:58pending

How Did the War of 1812 Settle the American Revolution?

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Mar 27, 202610:24pending

How Do Geoducks Work?

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Mar 19, 20266:41pending

How Did One Woman Make Vincent van Gogh Famous?

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Mar 18, 20267:14pending

How Does Building Muscle Work?

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Mar 9, 20267:37pending

Deinonychus: The Dinosaur That Sparked a Renaissance

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Mar 6, 20268:05pending

How Do Scales Measure Weight?

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Mar 5, 20269:31pending

How Did the Penn Center Become a Civil Rights Sanctuary?

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Feb 23, 20269:53pending

BrainStuff Classics: Why Is Cramming the Worst Way to Study?

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Feb 21, 20265:55pending

How Can We Separate Ninja Fact from Ninja Fiction?

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Feb 20, 20267:38pending

How Did 'Bourgeois' Become a Bad Word?

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Feb 19, 20267:37pending

How Did the Jane Collective Work?

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Feb 18, 20267:37pending

How Do Ducks Float?

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Feb 17, 20267:18pending

BrainStuff Classics: What Was the Emu War?

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Feb 1, 20266:49pending

BrainStuff Classics: Do Truly Unselfish Acts Really Exist?

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Jan 31, 20267:41pending

How Is Forest Lawn Memorial Park the 'Disneyland of Cemeteries'?

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Jan 28, 20267:17pending

What Colors Can Blood Be Other Than Red?

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Jan 27, 202610:39pending

What Caused the Laughter Epidemic of 1962?

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Jan 26, 20266:13pending

What's the History of Remote Controls?

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Jan 23, 202611:41pending

How Did One Portuguese Diplomat Save Thousands of Holocaust Refugees?

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Jan 22, 202610:22pending

How Do Search-And-Rescue Dogs Work?

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Jan 1, 202610:53pending

BrainStuff Classics: Why Do We Drop a Ball on New Year's Eve?

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Dec 31, 20255:18pending

Can You Really Die of Boredom?

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Dec 30, 20258:17pending

BrainStuff Classics: Why Does Cashmere Cost So Much?

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Dec 26, 20257:11pending

Why Is There a Pooping Figurine in Some Nativity Scenes?

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Dec 25, 20256:09pending

How Do Rice Cookers Work?

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Dec 24, 202510:25pending

How Can Mudlarking Turn Trash Into Treasure?

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Dec 23, 202510:13pending

How Do Walruses Work?

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Dec 22, 202511:13pending

What Happens When Your Immune System Turns on You?

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Dec 9, 202512:25pending

How Can Slime Mold Think Without a Brain?

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Dec 8, 20258:14pending

What's the Difference Between Cougars, Pumas, and Mountain Lions?

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Dec 5, 20257:09pending

Who Named the Americas?

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Dec 4, 20257:43pending
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