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BrainStuff

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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50 episodes

Feb 20, 2026•7:38

How Can We Separate Ninja Fact from Ninja Fiction?

Feb 21, 2026•5:55

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

Feb 23, 2026•9:53

How Did the Penn Center Become a Civil Rights Sanctuary?

Mar 5, 2026•9:31

How Do Scales Measure Weight?

Mar 6, 2026•8:05

Deinonychus: The Dinosaur That Sparked a Renaissance

Mar 9, 2026•7:37

How Does Building Muscle Work?

Mar 18, 2026•7:14

How Did One Woman Make Vincent van Gogh Famous?

Mar 19, 2026•6:41

How Do Geoducks Work?

Mar 27, 2026•10:24

How Did the War of 1812 Settle the American Revolution?

Mar 30, 2026•10:58

How Can Your Body Learn to Tolerate Cold?

Apr 1, 2026•8:40

What Pranks Have Astronauts Pulled?

Apr 21, 2026•8:00

Why Does Albania Have Hundreds of Thousands of Bunkers?

Apr 22, 2026•8:23

Does Smog Make Sunsets More Beautiful?

Apr 23, 2026•9:04

How Do Fainting Goats Work?

May 1, 2026•9:18

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

May 4, 2026•6:36

How Do Tiny Capers Pack Such a Big Flavor Punch?

May 8, 2026•9:28

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

May 11, 2026•12:16

How Does Bioluminescence Work?

May 12, 2026•10:08

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

May 18, 2026•5:19

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

May 19, 2026•13:03

Are Lobsters Functionally Immortal?

May 20, 2026•10:45

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

May 27, 2026•10:04

How Does Mayonnaise Work?

May 28, 2026•12:15

What Fueled the Feud of the Hatfields and McCoys?

May 29, 2026•10:21

Can You Really Escape an Alligator by Running Zigzag?

May 30, 2026•5:03

BrainStuff Classics: What Can Babies See in the Womb?

Jun 1, 2026•9:04

Where Did the At Symbol Come From?

Jun 3, 2026•6:42

Do Our Pinky Toes Serve a Purpose?

Jun 5, 2026•9:28

Could Dilophosaurus Really Spit Poison?

Jun 8, 2026•11:36

How Did William the Conquerer Transform England?

Jun 10, 2026•10:06

How Do Butterflies Get Their Brilliant Colors?

Jun 12, 2026•11:43

How Does Your Heart Get Blood?

Jun 15, 2026•7:27

Who Was Helen of Troy?

Jun 17, 2026•8:42

How Does the Blue-Footed Booby Work?

Jun 19, 2026•10:28

How Can Rhubarb Grow in the Dark?

Jun 24, 2026•8:38

What Would Happen If You Swallowed a Leech?

Jun 26, 2026•8:28

How Did the Smallest Primates Get Such Big Eyes?

Jun 27, 2026•16:58

How Did the Stonewall Riots Work?

Jun 29, 2026•11:55

Why Do We Put Diamonds on Engagement Rings?

Jul 1, 2026•9:37

How Do Manatees Work?

Jul 3, 2026•11:46

How Does the Myth of the Minotaur Work?

Jul 4, 2026•6:59

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

Jul 6, 2026•11:37

How Does Ketchup Work?

Jul 8, 2026•9:24

How Do Red-Tailed Hawks Work?

Jul 10, 2026•10:52

What Was the World's Largest Nuclear Weapon?

Jul 11, 2026•6:31

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

Jul 13, 2026•14:06

What Colors Are Impossible?

Jul 15, 2026•12:41

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

Jul 17, 2026•9:54

What Advice About Lightning Is Wrong?

Jul 18, 2026•7:25

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