The US is in the middle of an opioid epidemic that’s claiming thousands of lives. Here we talk about what caused it, how we get hooked on opioids in the first place, and some options on how to fix it.
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In this special Halloween video, we examine June and Jennifer Gibbons, twin girls who became known as the “Silent Twins” due to the fact that they never spoke except to each other, and even then, they did so in their own language nobody else could understand. As they grew...
Get Brilliant at And the first 295 to sign up for a premium account get 20% off every month! Do you make your own decisions? Science says maybe not. Not really, anyway. Starting in the 1950s, neuroscientists turned to split brain surgery in an effort to cure epileptics with uncontrollable...
There was a time when traveling circuses and freak shows were the preeminent form of entertainment of the day. Some people made a great living as human oddities, showing off their natural (and unnatural) bodies. Here are 10 of the most famous.
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If we’re ever going to reach other star systems, we need a new type of revolutionary propulsion system. NASA’s Eagleworks Lab is exploring the fringes of physics to find exactly that.