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What is fat? - George Zaidan
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- 1 What are those floaty things in your eye? - Michael Mauser
- 2 What makes muscles grow? - Jeffrey Siegel
- 3 What would happen if you didn’t drink water? - Mia Nacamulli
- 4 What would happen if you didn’t sleep? - Claudia Aguirre
- 5 How does anesthesia work? - Steven Zheng
- 6 The benefits of good posture - Murat Dalkilinç
- 7 Why are some people left-handed? - Daniel M. Abrams
- 8 Why do women have periods?
- 9 How your digestive system works - Emma Bryce
- 10 Why sitting is bad for you - Murat Dalkilinç
- 11 Why do we cry? The three types of tears - Alex Gendler
- 12 Cell vs. virus: A battle for health - Shannon Stiles
- 13 Is marijuana bad for your brain? - Anees Bahji
- 14 The science of attraction - Dawn Maslar
- 15 What makes tattoos permanent? - Claudia Aguirre
- 16 Why do we itch? - Emma Bryce
- 17 What happens during a heart attack? - Krishna Sudhir
- 18 Debunking the myths of OCD - Natascha M. Santos
- 19 How a wound heals itself - Sarthak Sinha
- 20 How does asthma work? - Christopher E. Gaw
- 21 How stress affects your body - Sharon Horesh Bergquist
- 22 How blood pressure works - Wilfred Manzano
- 23 What causes kidney stones? - Arash Shadman
- 24 Why do your knuckles pop? - Eleanor Nelsen
- 25 How do vitamins work? - Ginnie Trinh Nguyen
- 26 At what moment are you dead? - Randall Hayes
- 27 How does alcohol make you drunk? - Judy Grisel
- 28 How to make a mummy - Len Bloch
- 29 The immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks - Robin Bulleri
- 30 Is it bad to hold your pee? - Heba Shaheed
- 31 Which is better: Soap or hand sanitizer? - Alex Rosenthal and Pall Thordarson
- 32 Why is it so hard to cure cancer? - Kyuson Yun
- 33 The surprising reason our muscles get tired - Christian Moro
- 34 What causes headaches? - Dan Kwartler
- 35 The science of spiciness - Rose Eveleth
- 36 How Do Pain Relievers Work? - George Zaidan
- 37 Human sperm vs. the sperm whale - Aatish Bhatia
- 38 How does caffeine keep us awake? - Hanan Qasim
- 39 The surprising effects of pregnancy
- 40 How the heart actually pumps blood - Edmond Hui
- 41 How does your immune system work? - Emma Bryce
- 42 The surprising reason you feel awful when you're sick - Marco A. Sotomayor
- 43 What causes antibiotic resistance? - Kevin Wu
- 44 Why do blood types matter? - Natalie S. Hodge
- 45 How does your body process medicine? - Céline Valéry
- 46 Why do some people go bald? - Sarthak Sinha
- 47 How does laser eye surgery work? - Dan Reinstein
- 48 The science of skin color - Angela Koine Flynn
- 49 How long should your naps be? - Sara C. Mednick
- 50 What causes body odor? - Mel Rosenberg
- 51 Why do we hiccup? - John Cameron
- 52 What is fat? - George Zaidan
- 53 What’s that ringing in your ears? - Marc Fagelson
- 54 What causes bad breath? - Mel Rosenberg
- 55 What causes dandruff, and how do you get rid of it? - Thomas L. Dawson
- 56 Which type of milk is best for you? - Jonathan J. O’Sullivan & Grace E. Cunningham
- 57 Why do we have hair in such random places? - Nina G. Jablonski
- 58 How does your brain respond to pain? - Karen D. Davis
- 59 Why it’s so hard to cure HIV/AIDS - Janet Iwasa
- 60 Why is yawning contagious? - Claudia Aguirre
- 61 How aspirin was discovered - Krishna Sudhir
- 62 What does the liver do? - Emma Bryce
- 63 How do lungs work? - Emma Bryce
- 64 What happens during a stroke? - Vaibhav Goswami
- 65 How in vitro fertilization (IVF) works - Nassim Assefi and Brian A. Levine
- 66 The surprising cause of stomach ulcers - Rusha Modi
- 67 What causes constipation? - Heba Shaheed
- 68 Your body vs. implants - Kaitlyn Sadtler
- 69 How do glasses help us see? - Andrew Bastawrous and Clare Gilbert
- 70 Oxygen’s surprisingly complex journey through your body - Enda Butler
- 71 How does chemotherapy work? - Hyunsoo Joshua No
- 72 What we know (and don't know) about Ebola - Alex Gendler
- 73 How do ventilators work? - Alex Gendler
- 74 You are your microbes - Jessica Green and Karen Guillemin
- 75 What happens when your DNA is damaged? - Monica Menesini
- 76 The dangers of mixing drugs - Céline Valéry
- 77 Why is meningitis so dangerous? - Melvin Sanicas
- 78 How does cancer spread through the body? - Ivan Seah Yu Jun
- 79 Why do our bodies age? - Monica Menesini
- 80 How do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones? - George Zaidan
- 81 How one scientist averted a national health crisis - Andrea Tone
- 82 How your muscular system works - Emma Bryce
- 83 Why do we have to wear sunscreen? - Kevin P. Boyd
- 84 What happens when you get heat stroke? - Douglas J. Casa
- 85 Is there a disease that makes us love cats? - Jaap de Roode
- 86 The strange case of the cyclops sheep - Tien Nguyen
- 87 How X-rays see through your skin - Ge Wang
- 88 How do we smell? - Rose Eveleth
- 89 What is a coronavirus? - Elizabeth Cox
- 90 Why do humans have a third eyelid? - Dorsa Amir
- 91 Why does your voice change as you get older? - Shaylin A. Schundler
- 92 How do viruses jump from animals to humans? - Ben Longdon
- 93 How do your kidneys work? - Emma Bryce
- 94 The mystery of motion sickness - Rose Eveleth
- 95 Eye vs. camera - Michael Mauser
- 96 What causes opioid addiction, and why is it so tough to combat? - Mike Davis
- 97 What makes tuberculosis (TB) the world's most infectious killer? - Melvin Sanicas
- 98 What causes panic attacks, and how can you prevent them? - Cindy J. Aaronson
- 99 Is human evolution speeding up or slowing down? - Laurence Hurst
- 100 The mysterious science of pain - Joshua W. Pate
- 101 What are stem cells? - Craig A. Kohn
- 102 The science of stage fright (and how to overcome it) - Mikael Cho
- 103 The evolution of the human eye - Joshua Harvey
- 104 How menstruation works - Emma Bryce
- 105 What is epigenetics? - Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna
- 106 The past, present and future of the bubonic plague - Sharon N. DeWitte
- 107 How do steroids affect your muscles— and the rest of your body? - Anees Bahji
- 108 How do contraceptives work? - NWHunter
- 109 Why are human bodies asymmetrical? - Leo Q. Wan
- 110 How optical illusions trick your brain - Nathan S. Jacobs
- 111 Does stress cause pimples? - Claudia Aguirre
- 112 How to grow a bone - Nina Tandon
- 113 How to sequence the human genome - Mark J. Kiel
- 114 Why do we sweat? - John Murnan
- 115 How do scars form? - Sarthak Sinha
- 116 Why do we pass gas? - Purna Kashyap
- 117 How mucus keeps us healthy - Katharina Ribbeck
- 118 How does the thyroid manage your metabolism? - Emma Bryce
- 119 Why is pneumonia so dangerous? - Eve Gaus and Vanessa Ruiz
- 120 Secrets of the X chromosome - Robin Ball
- 121 What is obesity? - Mia Nacamulli
- 122 How does your body know what time it is? - Marco A. Sotomayor
- 123 Who's at risk for colon cancer? - Amit H. Sachdev and Frank G. Gress
- 124 Claws vs. nails - Matthew Borths
- 125 Why do you need to get a flu shot every year? - Melvin Sanicas
- 126 How close are we to eradicating HIV? - Philip A. Chan
- 127 How do germs spread (and why do they make us sick)? - Yannay Khaikin and Nicole Mideo
- 128 The accident that changed the world - Allison Ramsey and Mary Staicu
- 129 What does the pancreas do? - Emma Bryce
- 130 What is leukemia? - Danilo Allegra and Dania Puggioni
- 131 What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry? - Prosanta Chakrabarty
- 132 The fascinating science behind phantom limbs - Joshua W. Pate
- 133 How this disease changes the shape of your cells - Amber M. Yates
- 134 How did teeth evolve? - Peter S. Ungar
- 135 How bones make blood - Melody Smith
- 136 How fast is the speed of thought? - Seena Mathew
- 137 How can we solve the antibiotic resistance crisis? - Gerry Wright
- 138 Why do you get a fever when you're sick? - Christian Moro
- 139 Can loud music damage your hearing? - Heather Malyuk
- 140 Cell membranes are way more complicated than you think - Nazzy Pakpour
- 141 What is HPV and how can you protect yourself from it? - Emma Bryce
- 142 What are mini brains? - Madeline Lancaster
- 143 How do blood transfusions work? - Bill Schutt
- 144 Can you be awake and asleep at the same time? - Masako Tamaki
- 145 How to master your sense of smell - Alexandra Horowitz
- 146 What happens to your brain during a migraine - Marianne Schwarz
- 147 How a few scientists transformed the way we think about disease - Tien Nguyen
- 148 How do you know if you have a virus? - Cella Wright
- 149 The effects of underwater pressure on the body - Neosha S Kashef
- 150 The race to sequence the human genome - Tien Nguyen
- 151 Which sunscreen should you choose? - Mary Poffenroth
- 152 Why haven’t we cured arthritis? - Kaitlyn Sadtler and Heather J. Faust
- 153 Why do people have seasonal allergies? - Eleanor Nelsen
- 154 Learning from smallpox: How to eradicate a disease - Julie Garon and Walter A. Orenstein
- 155 How do nerves work? - Elliot Krane
- 156 The twisting tale of DNA - Judith Hauck
- 157 Is DNA the future of data storage? - Leo Bear-McGuinness
- 158 Why is it so hard to cure ALS? - Fernando G. Vieira
- 159 What did dogs teach humans about diabetes? - Duncan C. Ferguson
- 160 Do larger animals take longer to pee? - David L. Hu
- 161 What causes seizures, and how can we treat them? - Christopher E. Gaw
- 162 Could a blind eye regenerate? - David Davila
- 163 RNAi: Slicing, dicing and serving your cells - Alex Dainis
- 164 Hacking bacteria to fight cancer - Tal Danino
- 165 The cancer gene we all have - Michael Windelspecht
- 166 How breathing works - Nirvair Kaur
- 167 How to 3D print human tissue - Taneka Jones
- 168 What’s in the air you breathe? - Amy Hrdina and Jesse Kroll
- 169 Performing brain surgery without a scalpel - Hyunsoo Joshua No
- 170 How to see with sound - Jacques S. Abramowicz
- 171 A curable condition that causes blindness - Andrew Bastawrous
- 172 Could a breathalyzer detect cancer? - Julian Burschka
- 173 Should you donate your DNA to help cure diseases? - Greg Foot