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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: Why Are Sloths' Toilet Habits So Dangerous?

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May 10, 20254:44pending

How Did 'Uncle Tom' Go from Hero to Traitor?

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May 9, 20258:37pending

Could Orbital Chaos Make the Planets Collide?

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May 8, 202510:30pending

How Did Woolly Mammoths Work?

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May 6, 202511:35pending

What Makes You Dizzy When You Stand Up?

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May 5, 20255:22pending

BrainStuff Classics: Why a Gaggle of Geese? Where Do Collective Nouns Come From?

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Apr 20, 20256:07pending

BrainStuff Classics: What's in Movie Theater Popcorn?

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Apr 19, 20255:46pending

Why Can't We Eat Grass?

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Apr 18, 20257:18pending

How Does the Sun Rotate?

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Apr 17, 20257:00pending

Can a Turtle Outgrow Its Shell?

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Apr 16, 20255:26pending

What Is Fascism?

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Apr 15, 202511:42pending

How Does the 'Zombie Ant' Fungus Work?

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Apr 14, 20257:08pending

What Are We Still Learning About Anne Frank?

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Mar 27, 202513:09pending

BrainStuff Classics: Why Are Whales Big (But Not Bigger)?

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Mar 26, 20254:08pending

BrainStuff Classics: Was Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon?

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Mar 25, 20256:44pending

What Were Prehistoric 'Hell Pigs'?

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Mar 24, 20256:47pending

When Did We Start Calling American Citizens 'Consumers'?

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Mar 23, 20257:23pending

How Does Saliva Work?

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Mar 22, 20258:11pending

Who Was Harriet Tubman?

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Mar 21, 202512:51pending

Is Pluto Really Not a Planet?

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Mar 20, 20258:23pending

How Do Flying Snakes Work?

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Feb 26, 20256:12pending

Who Is Uncle Sam?

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Feb 25, 20255:40pending

BrainStuff Classics: Should You Be Squatting More?

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Feb 15, 20255:42pending

BrainStuff Classics: Why Don't Penguin Feet Freeze?

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Feb 14, 20253:42pending

How Did 'Silent Spring' Change the World?

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Feb 13, 202511:53pending

Who Invented Sports Drinks?

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Feb 12, 20256:59pending

Great Escapes: What Happens When Animals Make a Run for It?

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Feb 11, 20256:50pending

Do Astronauts Need Sunscreen in Space?

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Feb 7, 20256:40pending

How Did a Team of Immigrants in America Help Win WWII?

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Feb 6, 20259:52pending

How Do Our Eyes Get Their Color?

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Jan 22, 20259:20pending

Who Actually Wins (and Loses) in a Trade War?

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Jan 21, 202512:55pending

Why Are Komodo Dragons So Deadly?

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Jan 20, 20257:29pending

Do Other Planets Have Tectonic Plates?

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Jan 4, 20256:48pending

Why (and How) Does Paper Crumple?

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Jan 3, 20259:02pending

BrainStuff Classics: What Exactly Are Frankincense and Myrrh?

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Dec 26, 20245:42pending

How Does Fruitcake Work?

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Dec 25, 20247:41pending

Why Carve Radishes for Christmas?

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Dec 24, 20246:08pending

BrainStuff Classics: Why Don't Evergreen Trees Lose Their Needles?

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Dec 20, 20243:23pending

BrainStuff Classics: How Do Cold-Blooded Animals Survive the Winter?

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Dec 19, 20246:40pending

How Did Transcendentalism Shape America?

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Dec 18, 202411:30pending

How Can We Help Prevent Suicide?

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Dec 17, 20249:13pending

Which of Today's Animals Lived Alongside Dinosaurs?

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Dec 16, 20247:19pending

How Has Honey Been Used in Warfare?

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Dec 15, 20245:55pending

What Happens During a Supernova?

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Dec 14, 202411:27pending

Why Does Poison Ivy Cause a Rash?

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Dec 8, 20249:45pending

What's the History of Frozen Dinners?

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Dec 7, 20248:25pending

How Do We Build Tunnels Underwater?

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Dec 6, 202411:07pending

How Do Platypuses Work?

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Nov 30, 20246:06pending

Why Do We All Have Snot?

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Nov 29, 20246:11pending

How Do Pop-Up Turkey Timers Work?

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Nov 28, 20245:56pending
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