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Experiments, discoveries and scientific questions without the lab-coat jargon: real advances and phenomena that make the brain work overtime.

The Liquid That Pushes Back When You Try to Hit It

The Ice That Burns Because It Traps Gas in a Water Cage

Fritz Haber: The Nobel Laureate Who Fed the World and Created Chemical Weapons

Foreign Accent Syndrome: The Brain’s Uncanny Accent Switch

The Stanford Prison Experiment: Are Monsters Born or Made?

Your Body Glows: The Astonishing Secret of Bioluminescence

Randy Gardner’s Record: 264 Hours Without Sleep

HD 189733b: The Deep-Blue Planet Where Glass May Rain Sideways

Five Deadly Lakes: When Beautiful Water Hides Real Danger

Quantum Entanglement: Einstein’s “Spooky Action at a Distance”