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How Can Forest Fires Be Beneficial?
Although wildfires can be scary, serious disasters, forests and the animals that inhabit them can actually benefit from fires. Learn how controlled b…
1 year, 10 months ago
BrainStuff Classics: What Is Light?
Is light a particle or a wave? Or both? Or neither? Learn how humans have defined light throughout history -- including our best attempts today -- in…
1 year, 10 months ago
BrainStuff Classics: Why Are Peat Bogs So Good at Preserving Human Remains?
Human bodies buried in bogs can retain some features -- like perfectly preserved skin, right down to forehead wrinkles -- for thousands of years. Lea…
1 year, 10 months ago
How Did the Word 'Hack' Get Hacked?
The word 'hack' was once simply a verb meaning to cut roughly -- it's now a noun and verb with several meanings, from a bad writer to computer crimin…
1 year, 10 months ago
How Do Sharks' Senses Work?
Sharks are such successful hunters in part because their senses are so well-adapted to finding prey in the water. Learn about sharks' senses of smell…
1 year, 10 months ago
How Did Annie Londonderry Rock the World on a Bicycle?
The first woman to ride around the world on a bicycle embarked in 1894, a time when it was still a little scandalous for women to ride bikes at all. …
1 year, 10 months ago
Is It Safe to Eat Raw Oysters During Any Month?
You may have heard that you shouldn't eat oysters in any month without the letter R in its name. Learn where this idea came from -- and why it's not …
1 year, 10 months ago
How Do Space Bathrooms Work?
Using the bathroom in near-zero gravity is exactly as tricky as it sounds. Learn how space bathrooms have worked (and sometimes not worked) in this e…
1 year, 10 months ago
How Do Bald Eagles Work?
These large, intelligent North American birds weren't everyone's first choice for a United States icon. Learn more about bald eagles in this episode …
1 year, 10 months ago
Why Do Music and Art Move Us?
It seems miraculous that art can be so moving, but there are several scientific theories about it. Learn what we know (and what we don't) in this epi…
1 year, 11 months ago