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Test Your Lung Capacity: DIY Experiment

How much air can your lungs hold? In this video, Alex Dainis demonstrates an easy at home experiment to find out your forced vital capacity, or how much air your lungs can breathe out.
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Blowing Your Nose Wrong? Fix It Now!

What’s the right way to blow your nose? In this video, Insoo Hyun, a Bioethicist and the Director of the Center for Life Sciences at the Museum of Science, explains how most people blow their nose by taking a tissue and blowing hard with both nostrils.
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How DNA Reveals Your True Age!

Can your genes tell you how old you are? In this video, Alex Dainis explains how telomeres and histones are both DNA signatures that can be used to determine age!
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Find Your Blind Spot Now!

Did you know that you have a gap in your vision that your brain hides? Alex Dainis explains how we see when light hits the photoreceptors on our retinas, which turns it into signals that get sent to our brain via the optic nerve.
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Alzheimer’s Blood Test? Would You Take it?

If you could take a test that told you whether you have Alzheimer’s disease, would you? Insoo Hyun, Director of the Center for Life Sciences at the Museum of Science, discusses how researchers are developing a simple blood test that looks for amyloid beta...
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Relieve Stress with Music - Dr. Daniel Levitin Explains

How does music help relieve stress? In this video, Neuroscientist Dr. Daniel Levitin explains how listening to music allows your mind to wander.
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Why Music Gives You Goosebumps

Has music ever given you goosebumps? In this video, Neuroscientist Dr. Daniel Levitin explains a theory of where goosebumps come from. Goosebumps can be caused by a scary movie, or listening to a beautiful piece of music.
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The Astronaut’s Dilemma: What Happens to Human Bodies in Space

There’s been a lot of stuff in the news lately about space and its affect on the human body. Just recently, one astronaut had to be hospitalized overnight. Meanwhile astronaut Suni Williams, is fending off tabloid reports stating that she is losing a lot...
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Can Stem Cells Extend Life? Nobel Laureate Shinya Yamanaka Explains

Can stem cells extend the human lifespan? Shinya Yamanaka, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist behind the discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), joins bioethicist Insoo Hyun for an insightful discussion about the revolutionary potential and...
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Stem Cells to Brain Models: The Science of Brain Organoids

What are brain organoids? In this video, Insoo Hyun, Director of the Center for Life Sciences at the Museum of Science, explains these pea-sized models of the developing human brain.
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Your Gut Can Taste Too? Sense of Taste Unveiled

Did you know that it’s not just the tongue that has a sense of taste? In this video, Insoo Hyun, Director of the Center for Life Sciences at the Museum of Science, describes how a recent study has shown that the gut also has a sense of taste that you’re...
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EEE: What You Need To Know

Why are mosquitoes shutting down towns in Massachusetts? The area is experiencing an outbreak of EEE, or Eastern equine encephalitis.
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How Handwriting Helps Learning

Do you usually take notes by handwriting, or by typing? In this video, Insoo Hyun, Director at the Center for Life Science at the Museum of Science, walks us through a recent study that shows the benefits of handwriting.
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Mom Advocates for her Deaf Son

Inclusion and accessibility advocate Beth Leipholtz describes the tools she uses to support her son Cooper.
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Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

Can we reduce our dependence on refrigeration? Should we? Frostbite makes the case for a recalibration of our relationship with the fridge — and how our future might depend on it.