BrainStuff

Sitcoms use laugh tracks all the time. But where do they come from?

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The recorded sound of your voice usually makes you cringe because of two ways vibrations reach your ear.

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When the President travels the friendly skies, he does it in style.

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People who smoke pot have a reputation for being forgetful or absentminded. But what's the real science behind this?

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Can we really reconstruct a dinosaur’s appearance from a bunch of million-year-old fossils? How?

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Why do some foods affect our dreams?

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Men don’t usually lactate – but they can! Christian explores how breast tissue develops in human embryos of both sexes, and explains why mice are more advanced, evolution-wise.

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Some people sense a sweet, euphoric odor when pumping gas into their car. Why is that? And is it hazardous?

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From eldritch aspen colonies to immortal jellyfish, the world is lousy with long-lived organisms. But what’s the oldest?

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Sleeping is frustrating for many of us. So why do we have to do it? Christian reviews several possibilities and reveals all the bad things that can happen if you sleep too much... or not at all.

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