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What’s the Smartest Age?
At what age are you smartest? Dig into how your brain development affects your skills at different stages of your life.

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What Exactly Are Muscle Knots?
What causes muscle knots? In this video, Justin from the Institute of Human Anatomy discusses the mysteries surrounding muscle knots.

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Can Mushrooms Keep Your Brain Young?
Turns out doing the crossword is only one way you can keep your head healthy because mushrooms can help your brain cells grow!

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Biomimicking the Brain Vasculature With a Microfluidic Chip With Ami Mehta
This Teach Me in 10 will explain how the human brain vasculature can be modeled using new, microfluidic organ-on-a-chip technology.

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How Your Sense of Smell Helps You Savor Flavor
Eating pizza with a stuffy nose just isn't as satisfying – and there's a reason for that.

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Why Does Salt Change the Taste of Everything?
If your coffee is too bitter, add a pinch of salt. If your salad isn’t sour enough, add a pinch of salt. If your beer is too bitter, add a pinch of salt. Salt has a seemingly magical ability to enhance good flavors and dampen bad ones.

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Mitochondria Are the Powerhouse of… Alzheimer’s?
Some researchers think mitochondria could be hiding the key to Alzheimer's disease. And we may have a new strategy to fight the threat that the global banana industry has been facing for decades.

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The Benefits of Daydreaming
Enter the mind of a bored teenager to discover what happens in the brain when we daydream and find out what purpose it serves.

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Everything You Know About Studying Is a Lie – Brain Type Test
Take the 3-minute brain-type quiz, and identify your ideal study style. Which club will you match?

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The Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies
Over millions of years, many fungi have become specialized for infecting insects and other arthropods, but this fungus can manipulate ants’ movements, forcing them to do something they’d never ordinarily do.
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