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Did you know your mouth makes enough spit in your lifetime to fill a whole backyard swimming pool?! Eww! Get ready for a messy, mind-blowing adventure as Mira and Finn shrink down to take a roller coaster ride inside the human body! We are following a single bite of a crunchy red apple as it travels all the way through your incredible digestive system. You will discover how powerful squeezing muscles let you swallow food even if you are hanging upside down on the monkey bars like a bat! Then, plunge into a churning stomach acid bath that is strong enough to dissolve metal razor blades (don't worry, your tummy has a special slime shield to keep you safe!). You will also explore a shark-sized tube folded up in your belly, meet millions of microscopic fingers grabbing your nutrients, and say hello to the thirty-nine trillion friendly bacteria living in your gut right now! Plus, we are answering the ultimate question: what exactly is poop made of, and why do we have to go? Buckle up, because science has never been this gross, or this awesome!

Buckle up, space explorers! Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered about that glowing red dot? Join Mira and Finn on an epic rocket ride to Mars to find out if humans could ever make it our second home! Mars might be our next-door neighbor in the solar system, but surviving there requires some serious superhero skills. Did you know that Mars is basically a giant, freezing desert entirely covered in rust? In this mind-blowing episode, we'll discover how astronauts would survive on a planet where the air is toxic and winter temperatures drop to a freezing minus 220 degrees! You'll learn about a genius little golden box called MOXIE that magically turns toxic air into breathable oxygen, and how future astronauts would grow space potatoes using high-tech pink and purple lights. Plus, get ready to explore Olympus Mons, a massive volcano almost three times taller than Mount Everest! From bouncing around in low gravity to watching a stunning glowing blue sunset with two potato-shaped moons, Mars is totally wild. Tune in to see if you have what it takes to survive on the red planet!

Have you ever wondered how your favorite song gets from a speaker all the way into your brain? It all starts with invisible sound waves flying through the air at a whopping 767 miles per hour! Join Mira and Finn on an incredible, mind-blowing journey inside the human ear to discover the amazing science of sound! You will learn about the absolute smallest bones in your entire body—including one that is smaller than a grain of rice! Discover the bizarre, snail-shaped tube in your head where 15,000 microscopic hair cells literally dance to the music you listen to. We will also uncover the magical reason why some epic songs give you goosebumps (it’s a fancy scientific word called frisson!) and how your brain rewards you with a happy chemical called dopamine. Plus, find out the astonishing story of how the famous composer Beethoven used his teeth and skeleton to hear music after he went completely deaf! Turn up the volume and get ready for a scientific concert hidden right inside your own skull. Science has never sounded so good!

Did you know the highest point on Earth used to be at the bottom of the ocean? It’s true! Join Mira and Finn on a wild science adventure to uncover the unbelievable secrets of Mount Everest! Imagine standing over five miles up in the freezing sky, looking down at the snow, and finding an ancient seashell! How did ocean creatures end up in the clouds? Discover how the Earth's crust is like a giant cracked egg made of moving puzzle pieces called tectonic plates. Millions of years ago, the Indian plate zoomed across an ancient ocean and crashed right into Asia! This massive slow-motion collision squished the ocean floor and pushed it all the way up into the sky to create the mighty Himalayan mountains. The craziest part? The continent crash isn't over! Mount Everest is actually still growing a little bit taller every single year. But there is an epic tug-of-war going on! While the Earth pushes the mountain up, giant frozen rivers of ice called glaciers are slowly wearing it back down. Get ready to learn about freezing weather, ancient fossils, and giant rocky collisions!

Have you ever dreamed of stepping off a chair, flapping your arms, and zooming straight up into the clouds?! Why can't humans just fly like birds? Join Mira and Finn on a sky-high adventure to uncover the mind-blowing science of flight! Discover the four invisible forces of physics every flying creature must conquer to leave the ground: gravity, lift, drag, and thrust. You’ll find out why a bird's bones are hollow, how hummingbirds flap in rapid figure-eights, and why bats fly using giant webbed hands! Did you know tiny mosquitoes flap their wings 800 times a second to create miniature tornadoes that vacuum them into the air?! It’s true! Plus, learn how humans finally touched the sky when the Wright Brothers built the very first powered airplane in 1903. From lazy-flying Bald Eagles riding heat waves to the unbelievable 240-mile-per-hour dive of the Peregrine Falcon, this episode is packed with awesome animal facts! Buckle up, test your brain in our fun trivia quiz, and get ready for takeoff!

Have you ever spun around super fast on a tire swing, stopped, and felt like the whole room was still twirling? Join Mira and Finn as they shrink down and travel deep into the weird, wet world inside your skull to find out why! You won't believe it, but you actually have tiny tubes of secret fluid and thousands of microscopic crystals hiding inside your ears! These amazing 'ear rocks' and sloshing liquids act like a 3D navigation computer to keep you balanced and tell your brain which way is up. Find out what happens when that fluid gets confused, how lightning-fast electrical signals shoot to your brain at 250 miles per hour, and why spinning ice skaters don't fall over on the ice! Plus, discover what happens to brave astronauts when they float in zero gravity and their ear crystals stop working completely! Put your balance to the test, learn some mind-blowing human biology, and find out exactly why we get dizzy. It is going to be a totally spin-tastic adventure!

Have you ever wondered why a parked car gets so hot in the summer sun? Our whole planet is doing the exact same thing! Join Mira and Finn on Science is Not Boring as they uncover the invisible blanket wrapping around our Earth. Did you know humans pump out 37 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year? That’s as heavy as 37 billion great white sharks sent up into the sky! Discover the amazing true story of Eunice Newton Foote, the brilliant female scientist who predicted the greenhouse effect way back in 1856 using just glass jars and thermometers! We'll also dive deep into our oceans to see how they act like giant heat sponges, and learn the shocking reason why hot sandy beaches mean sea turtles might only have baby girls! But don't worry, scientists and engineers are fighting back! Travel to a scorching desert in India to explore a massive solar farm with 10 million panels, cleaned by an incredible army of waterless robots! Packed with mind-blowing facts, amazing science, and a fun quiz to test your brain, this episode shows exactly how clever humans are working to put things right!

Did you know you actually have up to thirty-three different senses feeding your brain right now?! In this mind-blowing episode of Science is Not Boring, Mira and Finn uncover the wild secrets of the human body and how our incredible senses work together as the ultimate superhero team. Have you ever wondered why your favorite cheesy pizza tastes like boring, mushy cardboard when you have a stuffy nose? It turns out, eighty percent of flavor actually comes directly from your sense of smell! Your nose is doing all the heavy lifting at dinner time! Join us as we explore the squishy fluid in your inner ear that gives you balance, and uncover the invisible body GPS that knows exactly where your fingers are in the dark! Plus, find out how a crazy potato chip experiment proved that the crunchy sounds you hear can actually change the way your food tastes. Your brain acts like a master DJ mixing sight, sound, smell, and touch into one giant movie. Get ready to put your four hundred smell receptors to work—science has never been this delicious!

Have you ever wondered why you can forget where you put your shoes, but you never forget how to ride a bike? Your brain is the ultimate supercomputer! In fact, it can hold about 2.5 million gigabytes of information—that is like recording three million hours of your favorite TV shows! Join Mira and Finn on Science is Not Boring as they uncover the amazing secrets of how our memories actually work. Did you know that every time you learn something new, your brain literally grows new physical branches? We will explore how a clever scientist used a giant, squishy sea slug to prove it! You will also meet the most famous patient in neuroscience history, Patient H.M., who helped doctors discover that we actually have two completely different memory systems. Plus, find out the sneaky biological reason why a simple smell, like baking cookies or rain on the sidewalk, can instantly transport you back in time! Get ready to build some brand new brain connections and discover the incredible science happening right inside your very own head!

Look up at the night sky! Have you ever seen giant, glowing ribbons of green, purple, and red light dancing in the air? Join Mira and Finn as they uncover the wild, fiery truth behind the Northern Lights, also known as the Aurora Borealis! You might think they are just pretty, glowing clouds, but they are actually caused by massive explosions on the Sun, ninety-three million miles away! Discover how a fiery, two-million-mile-an-hour solar wind travels through space and crashes into Earth's invisible magnetic shield in a gigantic game of space bumper cars. Plus, we'll travel back to the Carrington Event of 1859—a super-storm from the Sun that was so bright, confused gold miners woke up at 1:00 AM to cook bacon, thinking it was morning! You won't believe how this intense space weather even caused unplugged telegraph machines to literally catch on fire. Bundle up and get ready for a mind-blowing space adventure that is truly out of this world!

Have you ever wondered how super-tall buildings and massive bridges stand up without falling down? Join Mira and Finn as they uncover the invisible forces trying to knock down our cities—like sneaky gravity, fierce wind, and powerful earthquakes! Discover how clever engineers fight back using the brilliant science of shapes and materials. Did you know the strongest shape in the engineering world is the trusty triangle? Or that the Burj Khalifa in Dubai is so incredibly high up, you can ride an elevator to the top to time-travel and watch the exact same sunset twice?! Get ready for some truly mind-blowing engineering secrets! You will learn about a giant 660-tonne golden ball swinging inside Taipei 101 that stops the skyscraper from snapping during huge storms. Plus, find out how a massive Japanese suspension bridge survived a monster earthquake that stretched it a whole meter longer! With enough metal wire to wrap around the Earth seven times and roots deeper than a swimming pool, these mega-structures are basically real-life superheroes. Tune in to explore the awesome physics and geometry that hold our world together!

Have you ever wondered what your teeth are actually made of? Hint: they are NOT bones! Your teeth are covered in a super-strong biological crystal armor called enamel, and it is officially the hardest substance in your entire body! Join Mira and Finn on an amazing journey inside your mouth and across the wild animal kingdom. You will discover why great white sharks can lose up to 35,000 teeth in their lifetime (growing them back on a conveyor belt!), and how elephants grow massive molars that are as heavy as bowling balls! Plus, we are traveling back in time to meet the very first dentist in Ancient Egypt and busting a huge myth about America's first president. Did you know George Washington's fake teeth were actually made of hippo ivory and cow teeth instead of wood?! Finally, find out the gross truth about what really happens when you eat too much sugar, and how brushing your teeth stops microscopic bacteria from melting your crystal armor with acid! Get ready to sink your teeth into the wildest and most mind-blowing facts about your smile!

Have you ever wondered why green leaves suddenly burst into bright gold, orange, and red when autumn arrives? It’s not magic—it’s amazing science! Join Mira and Finn as they uncover the secret, hidden lives of leaves. Did you know a single oak tree can have over 200,000 leaves that weigh as much as a baby grand piano? In the summer, these leaves are actually tiny, hardworking sugar factories! But here is the craziest part: those green leaves are secretly yellow and orange all summer long. The bright green "chlorophyll" just covers the other colors up! When winter brings freezing weather, trees have to go into survival mode. Discover how trees create brand-new red shields to protect their food, and why they use microscopic "scissors" to drop every single leaf to the ground! Dropping leaves actually saves the tree's life so it doesn't freeze or dry out in the cold. Bundle up and get ready for a mind-blowing nature adventure that will change the way you look at crunchy autumn leaf piles forever!

Did you know that the smartphone in your hand has 19 BILLION tiny little switches inside it? It’s true! Join Mira and Finn as they shrink down to the size of a nanometer to discover how computers actually think! It turns out, beneath all your favorite 3D video games, funny videos, and cool apps, computers only do one simple thing: they flip tiny switches on and off super fast using a special math language called binary! We’ll travel back in time to 1945 to see the ENIAC, a giant early computer that weighed as much as four school buses and used exploding glass tubes! You'll also learn the hilarious and gross story of why we call computer glitches "bugs" (hint: it involves a real, squished moth!). Finally, find out how scientists invented the microscopic transistor, changing the world forever and making it possible to fit 20,000 of them across a single human hair. Get ready to have your mind blown—you will never look at your phone or tablet the same way again!

Have you ever wondered how you can run super fast, jump incredibly high, or even just blink your eyes? It all comes down to the amazing biological superpower hidden right under your skin: your muscles! Join Mira and Finn on Science is Not Boring as they explore the incredible microscopic machinery inside your human body. Did you know you have over 600 skeletal muscles, and they can only pull, never push? It’s true! We’re zooming in with a microscope to discover the famous Sliding Filament Theory, where millions of tiny grabber hands play a lightning-fast game of tug-of-war to make you move! Discover how the world’s fastest athlete, Usain Bolt, used his fast-twitch muscles to sprint almost 28 miles per hour. Then, travel back in time to ancient Greece to meet Milo of Croton, a legendary wrestler who got super strong by carrying a baby cow on his shoulders every single day until it grew into a massive bull! From your powerhouse jaw muscle to your hardworking heart, get ready to flex your brain in this action-packed episode!

Have you ever wondered how many creepy crawlies share our planet? Get ready to have your mind blown, because for every single person on Earth, there are over one billion insects! Join Mira and Finn on an incredible adventure as they shrink down to explore the wild and wonderful world of bugs. You will travel deep into a South American rainforest where scientists made it literally rain bugs from the treetops, discovering thousands of brand-new species hiding high in the canopy. Then, venture underground to explore a massive leafcutter ant mega-city that goes twenty-six feet deep and took ten tons of cement to uncover! But that is not all! You will also meet some of nature's tiniest superheroes, like the mighty Hercules Beetle that can lift one hundred times its own weight, and the famous Bombardier Beetle that shoots boiling hot spray from its bottom to blast away enemies! Discover why these six-legged creatures are the ultimate recyclers and completely essential to our ecosystem. Shrink down and get ready for the biggest, buggiest episode yet!

Did you know that while you are eating delicious pancakes for breakfast, a kid on the other side of the planet in Australia is fast asleep in the pitch dark? Or that right now, even while you are sitting totally still, you are actually hurtling through space at over sixty-seven thousand miles per hour? It is true! Our massive planet Earth is like a giant, spinning spaceship! In this mind-blowing episode of Science is Not Boring, Mira and Finn explore exactly why we have day and night. You will discover how the Earth acts like a leaning top facing a giant flashlight, and visit a wild town in Norway where the sun stays up in the sky for four whole months straight! Plus, find out how a Canadian engineer named Sir Sandford Fleming missed his train in 1876 and decided to slice the entire world into twenty-four time zones just to fix the crazy schedules! Get ready to learn wacky facts about astronauts seeing sixteen sunsets a day and why France has more time zones than any other country. Strap into your chairs and get ready to spin!

Have you ever wondered why your teeth keep falling out, or how you get taller every single year? Get ready for a mind-blowing journey inside the hidden construction site of the human body! Did you know you actually started out smaller than the period at the end of this sentence? It is true! Join Mira and Finn as they explore the superhero builders in your bones called osteoblasts, and find out why you are actually taller in the morning than when you go to bed. (Hint: gravity squishes you down during the day!). Plus, we reveal the slightly spooky but completely amazing truth about baby teeth. Meet the tiny demolition crew called odontoclasts that actually dissolve the roots of your baby teeth so they can fall out! From human bones that are stronger than solid steel to astronauts growing two whole inches while floating in space, your body is doing incredible things even while you sleep. Tune in to find out how you get a brand-new skeleton every ten years!

Have you ever looked up at the daytime sky and wondered, what exactly is the Sun? It might look like a friendly, quiet yellow ball, but it is actually a roaring, boiling nuclear furnace! Join Mira and Finn on an explosive space adventure to the center of our solar system as they uncover the mind-blowing secrets of the closest star to Earth. Did you know you could fit over a million Earths inside it? Or that it is made of a glowing, electrified soup called plasma? In this fiery episode, we will discover how the Sun violently smashes atoms together to create the brilliant light and heat that keeps us alive! You'll also learn about a super-fast spaceship built by scientists to actually touch the Sun without melting. But hold on tight, because things get dark! We are answering the ultimate terrifying question: what would happen if the Sun suddenly switched off completely? From absolute darkness to a freezing planet flying off into deep space, the answers will shock you! Grab your sunglasses and tune in!

Have you ever wondered how animals survive in places that would turn humans into popsicles or fry us like an egg? Join Mira and Finn on an epic science adventure as they uncover the wildest, most mind-blowing survival tricks on planet Earth! You won't believe what these incredible creatures can do to stay alive. Discover the amazing North American Wood Frog, a living ice cube that stops its heart and freezes solid all winter, only to thaw out and hop away in the spring! Travel to freezing blizzards to learn how ten thousand Emperor penguins create cozy ninety-eight-degree group hugs to stay warm. Then, cross the globe to the scorching Sahara Desert to bust a massive myth: camels don't store water in their humps, they actually store fat! You'll also meet super-fast ants wearing shiny, reflective heat suits, and the ultimate invincible microscopic water bear, the Tardigrade, which can survive being boiled, frozen, and even launched into outer space! Get ready for a wild ride full of cool science facts, bizarre body changes, and a fun quiz to test your extreme animal knowledge!

Have you ever wondered why the ground can suddenly shake, crack, and roll like huge waves on a beach? Join Mira and Finn on an earth-shattering adventure to find out what really causes earthquakes! Did you know the ground beneath your feet is actually broken into giant puzzle pieces called tectonic plates? They are always moving, but usually only as fast as your fingernails grow! But watch out! When these massive, jagged rocky plates get stuck together, the solid rock can actually bend like a giant rubber band. And when the pressure gets too high... SNAP! The rock breaks and releases unbelievable energy, sending super-fast invisible waves shooting through the ground! In this exciting episode of Science is Not Boring, we uncover the mystery of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and discover how solid rock moved 21 feet in just seconds! We'll learn the big difference between speedy P-waves and destructive S-waves, how scientists use incredible early warning systems to keep people safe, and why places like Florida get to skip the shaking. Plus, explore the famous, volcano-filled Ring of Fire! Get ready to rock and roll!

Did you know the little rectangular screen in your pocket is actually a secret supercomputer? It is true! Join Mira and Finn on Science is Not Boring as they shrink down to microscopic size to explore exactly what is inside a smartphone! You won't believe the hidden science packed under the glass. Discover how a modern phone is millions of times more powerful than the massive computers NASA used to send the Apollo 11 astronauts to the Moon! We will uncover a microscopic city built from over 60 different elements—including real gold, silver, and superhero-sounding metals like neodymium! Learn how an unbelievable 19 billion tiny switches called transistors can fit on a computer chip the exact size of your fingernail. Find out why the glass screen is soaked in boiling molten salt, how your phone uses electricity to know exactly where your finger taps, and why recycling old electronics is so incredibly important for the planet. Grab your favorite gadget, get ready for some light-speed science, and let's crack open the ultimate technological mystery!

Take a deep breath in... and let it out. Did you know that every single molecule of oxygen you just breathed was created by a plant? In this thrilling episode, Mira and Finn uncover the invisible superpowers of plants and trees! Join our hosts as they journey from the tiny, microscopic mouths on leaves (called stomata!) all the way to the steamy, massive Amazon Rainforest. You will discover how trees act like giant vacuum cleaners that suck up bad air and burp out fresh oxygen through a magical recipe called photosynthesis! Plus, learn about incredible "flying rivers" in the sky made of 20 billion tons of tree sweat, the amazing Dutch scientist who figured out plant secrets in 1779, and the shocking truth about how tiny ocean bacteria actually make most of Earth's oxygen! Pack your explorer hat and get ready to find out why keeping our forests safe is the most important mission on the planet. Tune in and never look at a leaf the same way again!

Grab your water bottles, because the water you are drinking right now has a wild, ancient secret! Did you know that the Earth's water is about 4.5 billion years old? That means the exact same water in your cup might have been sneezed out by a Woolly Mammoth, frozen in a massive glacier, or even swallowed by a giant Brachiosaurus during the Jurassic Period! Yep, you might literally be drinking purified dinosaur pee! Join hosts Mira and Finn on an epic journey as they follow a single, freezing drop of water on a globe-trotting adventure. You'll learn how long water stays in the pitch-black ocean, how it floats invisibly into the clouds, and how it gets trapped in rivers of ice. Plus, discover the jaw-dropping story of a brave scientist who found 2-billion-year-old water deep inside a Canadian mine—and actually tasted it! Get ready for mind-blowing facts, massive numbers, and a fun quiz to test your knowledge about the most extreme survivor on planet Earth: water!

Did you know that the bright red of a shiny apple or the vibrant green of the grass doesn't actually exist outside your head?! It is completely made up by your brain! Join Mira and Finn on a mind-blowing journey to find out how your eyes catch incredibly fast waves of light to create the beautiful world around you! You will discover how Isaac Newton trapped a rainbow inside his bedroom, and learn all about the millions of microscopic light-catching cells hiding inside your eyeballs called rods and cones! But wait, do animals see the same rainbow we do? Prepare for some wild surprises! You'll find out why you should never throw a red toy for your dog, how bumblebees use secret invisible light to hunt down sweet flowers, and meet a super-powered underwater superhero! The Peacock Mantis Shrimp has 16 different color catchers and punches its prey as fast as a car! Packed with amazing fun facts, a colorful trivia quiz, and the shocking truth about the color pink, this episode will change the way you look at the world forever!

Did you know that millions of years before humans existed, giant reptiles ruled the Earth? Get ready to dig into the ultimate ancient mystery with Mira and Finn! We are traveling back in time to uncover the wild secrets of dinosaurs and how a simple muddy bone magically turns into solid rock. Imagine opening your mouth and having eight hundred teeth packed inside, replacing themselves every three months! You will discover how the plant-eating Triceratops used its incredible dental battery, and why the mighty T. rex had terrifying teeth the exact size of a school ruler! But wait, were all dinosaurs just scaly green reptiles? Not at all! Prepare for a massive shock as we reveal the truth about a fluffy, ginger-colored dinosaur named Sinosauropteryx. We will also track down fossilized footprints so huge you could take a bath in them! And the craziest twist of all? Dinosaurs never truly vanished. The mighty beasts of the Mesozoic Era are still alive today, flying right above your head! Tune in to find out why the pigeon at your local park is actually a living, breathing dinosaur!

Have you ever wondered why a yummy peanut butter sandwich is just a snack for you, but super dangerous for someone else? Welcome to the wild world of allergies! Join Mira and Finn as they shrink down to discover what happens when your body's immune system gets totally confused and sounds a giant false alarm! You'll meet the body's microscopic security guards—called mast cells—that are packed full of tiny chemical water balloons just waiting to pop! Find out how an amazing secret military invention from the 1970s transformed into the life-saving EpiPen we know today. Plus, travel all the way to Israel to uncover a mind-blowing medical mystery about baby peanut puffs! Could eating peanuts as a baby actually stop you from being allergic later on? Discover how scientists literally had to rewrite the medical books in this epic, sneeze-tastic episode of Science is Not Boring! Get ready to explore the amazing science inside your own body!

Did you know there is a living structure on Earth so massive that astronauts can actually see it all the way from space?! It’s true! The Great Barrier Reef is roughly the size of Japan, but it wasn't built by giant machines. It was built by millions of tiny, squishy animals the size of a grain of rice! In this exciting episode of Science is Not Boring, Mira and Finn dive deep into the ocean to uncover the secrets of coral reefs. You will find out how tiny creatures called coral polyps build colorful underwater cities and team up with amazing microscopic algae roommates called zooxanthellae! But why are so many of these beautiful reefs suddenly turning ghostly white? We will explore the mystery behind coral bleaching and learn exactly how warming ocean temperatures affect these sensitive animals. Don't worry, there is good news, too! Discover how kids and scientists around the world are working together to grow new coral in underwater nurseries to save the rainforests of the sea. Get ready for mind-blowing facts, lightning-fast microscopic harpoons, and a fun trivia quiz to test your ocean knowledge!

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you dug a hole straight down through your backyard? You wouldn't just find dirt! Join Mira and Finn on an epic journey deep underground to discover the amazing, blistering secrets hiding right beneath our feet! First, we’ll explore the bubbling, oozing hot rock called magma, and find out exactly what happens when it blasts out of a volcano and turns into lava. Did you know the deepest hole humans ever dug had to stop because the rock turned into hot, sticky putty? It's true! But the wildest part is right at the very center of the planet. Discover a giant, swirling ocean of liquid metal and a solid iron ball that is literally as hot as the surface of the sun! Plus, find out how a brilliant scientist named Inge Lehmann used cardboard oatmeal boxes and earthquake waves to prove it was all there. You'll even learn how this giant iron center acts like an invisible superhero force field to keep everyone on Earth safe!

Have you ever heard of a smiling pink salamander that never grows up? Meet the axolotl, the real-life superhero of the animal kingdom! In this amazing episode of Science is Not Boring, Mira and Finn dive into the chilly canals of Lake Xochimilco near Mexico City to uncover the secrets of the world’s weirdest amphibian. Did you know the ancient Aztecs called them "water dogs"? Or that if an axolotl loses a leg, it can completely grow a brand new one in just a few weeks? It is completely true! They use a superpower bump called a blastema to perfectly rebuild their bones and muscles. You will also learn how scientists are studying their giant DNA instruction manual—which is ten times larger than a human's—to learn how they heal without any scars. Plus, discover their secret ninja hunting move called the "suction strike" and find out how these fascinating creatures breathe using three different backup systems! Get ready to explore the wild world of the ultimate water dog and find out why we need to protect their natural habitat. Hit play now and test your knowledge in our fun trivia quiz at the end!

Have you ever scraped your knee and wondered, what is blood actually made of? It is not just red water—it is a microscopic superhero team living inside you! Join Mira and Finn as they shrink down and race through your veins on a 60,000-mile biological superhighway! Did you know your blood vessels are long enough to wrap around the entire Earth twice? Discover the amazing secrets of your body, from millions of squishy red blood cells delivering oxygen, to shape-shifting white blood cells called macrophages that eat dangerous germs whole! Learn how sticky platelets weave superglue nets to plug leaks just like a submarine hatch. You will also find out about the Dutch scientist who first spotted these tiny cells in 1674, and even travel the animal kingdom to uncover bizarre creatures with bright blue and neon green blood! Get ready for a mind-blowing journey inside the human body that proves science is definitely not boring!

Blast off on an unbelievable adventure into the most powerful machines in the entire universe! Have you ever wondered how a spaceship breaks free from Earth’s gravity? Join Mira and Finn on Science is Not Boring as they uncover the mind-blowing secrets of rockets! Discover what Escape Velocity is and why a rocket has to travel a staggering 25,053 miles per hour—50 times faster than a commercial airplane—just to reach the stars. You won't believe the wild space facts we have packed inside! Find out how the massive Saturn V rocket burned 20 tons of fuel every single second (that's the weight of four adult elephants!) and created a roaring fire so hot it could easily melt steel. Learn the genius science trick of using freezing cold liquid to stop the engine from melting, and why dropping empty fuel tanks out of the sky is the smartest way to travel. Plus, find out how the International Space Station stays in orbit by literally falling and missing the ground! Fasten your seatbelts, space cadets, because this high-speed episode is guaranteed to send your brain straight into orbit!

Did you know there is a supercomputer inside your head that runs on less power than a tiny refrigerator lightbulb? It’s true! Your brain is a squishy, grey blob that weighs about three pounds—exactly like a small cantaloupe—but it controls absolutely everything you do! Join Mira and Finn on Science is Not Boring as they uncover the wild secrets of the most complex machine in the known universe. Discover how a scientist made "brain soup" to count an amazing 86 billion tiny cells called neurons! We'll learn how these biological wires shoot electrical sparks at mind-blowing speeds of 270 miles per hour, which is faster than a Formula One race car! Find out why your amygdala (which totally sounds like a dinosaur!) makes your stomach drop on a rollercoaster, and why going to sleep is literally just taking out the brain trash in a magical nightly biological car wash. Your brain even has more connections than there are stars in the entire Milky Way galaxy! So get ready to stretch those neurons and build your brain city in this super-charged, fact-filled episode!

Have you ever swallowed a mouthful of seawater at the beach? Blegh! It is super salty! But why don't rivers taste like salt? In this mind-blowing episode of Science is Not Boring, Mira and Finn dive deep to uncover the ocean's biggest mysteries! You won't believe it, but if you magically took all the salt out of the ocean and spread it over the land, it would form a towering white wall 500 feet thick! That is as tall as a 40-story skyscraper! Join us as we learn how slightly acidic rain breaks down rocks to make this giant bowl of salty rock soup. Then, strap in as we plunge into the terrifying, pitch-black depths of the sea! We'll travel back to 1934 to ride in a tiny metal ball called the Bathysphere, and then drop all the way down to the Challenger Deep. Discover what it feels like to have the crushing weight of 50 jumbo jets pressing on you, and meet the weirdest, squishiest creature on Earth—the gooey deep-sea snailfish! Get ready to explore the freezing dark where no sunlight ever reaches!

Have you ever wondered what actually happens when you flip a light switch in your bedroom? You might think electricity travels at the speed of light, but the tiny particles that make it up—called electrons—actually move slower than a snail! Join Mira and Finn on an epic, high-voltage adventure as they follow a single spark of electricity on its amazing journey from a giant spinning power plant all the way to your morning toaster! Discover how a brilliant scientist named Michael Faraday accidentally invented the very first electric generator using just a simple magnet. Then, travel across the world to discover the tallest electricity pylon in China—it is literally taller than the Eiffel Tower! We will uncover why power lines use lightweight aluminum instead of heavy copper, why birds never get zapped when they sit on high-voltage wires, and how humming metal boxes called transformers shrink the electricity down to a safe size for your home. Packed with glowing facts and mind-blowing science, this episode of Science is Not Boring will completely change how you look at the outlets in your wall!

Did you know that sharks are actually older than trees, older than dinosaurs, and even older than the rings of Saturn?! Dive into the deep blue sea with Mira and Finn to uncover the amazing, real-life secrets of the ocean's most misunderstood creatures! Forget what you've seen in scary movies—sharks are ancient survivors with actual superpowers. Discover how they use special jelly-filled pores to literally feel the heartbeat of a fish hidden under the sand! Want to hear something totally gross? Find out the crazy (and disgusting!) way a shark cleans out its tummy by throwing its entire stomach out of its mouth! Eww! We'll also meet the biggest fish in the entire world, a massive 60-foot giant that weighs as much as ten elephants but eats some of the tiniest food in the ocean. Plus, learn about a freezing cold, deep-sea shark that can live for over 400 years! Join us for this fin-tastic underwater adventure to find out why sharks are actually incredible ocean guardians that need our protection. Don't worry, the only thing you'll catch is some seriously awesome knowledge!

Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered, just how big is space? Does it ever end? Get ready for a mind-bending cosmic adventure with Mira and Finn! We are blasting off to discover the unbelievable size of the universe. Did you know that even in our fastest spaceship, it would take 73,000 years to reach the absolute nearest star, Proxima Centauri? That is longer than all of recorded human history! Join us as we explore what a "light-year" really is and learn how looking deep into space is actually a real-life form of time travel! We will discover how a brilliant astronomer named Henrietta Swan Leavitt used pulsing "heartbeat" stars to measure the impossible, and how a trick called parallax helps scientists measure stars without a giant tape measure. Plus, find out why space is expanding like an inflating balloon and whether the universe actually has an edge! Packed with billions of galaxies and brain-melting facts, this episode of Science is Not Boring will leave you starstruck. Blast off with us today!

Did you know you are walking around inside a self-healing superhero suit of armor? It is true! Your bones do so much more than just hold you up. In this episode of Science is Not Boring, Mira and Finn dive deep into the human skeleton to uncover its mind-blowing secrets! Discover why babies are born with around three hundred bones, but adults only have two hundred and six (hint: you didn't lose them!). We will explore the femur, a thigh bone so incredibly strong it could hold the weight of three stacked elephants, and the stapes, a tiny bone hidden in your ear the size of a single sesame seed! But wait, it gets even cooler! Your bones are actually super-busy factories pumping out over two million red blood cells every single second. Plus, find out how microscopic "bulldozers" and "builders" work together to heal broken bones, and why humans share a crazy neck secret with towering giraffes! Get ready to test your skeletal knowledge with our fun trivia quiz at the end!

Have you ever wondered what happens inside your body when you get a scrape or catch a cold? Get ready to shrink down to microscopic size, because there is an epic battle happening inside you right now! Your body has a built-in security team with billions of invisible hunters, including giant white blood cells called macrophages that eat germs like hungry bears! But how does your body learn to fight off the really tough bad guys? We are traveling back in time to 1796 to meet Dr. Edward Jenner, a milkmaid named Sarah, and a very special cow named Blossom. Discover the incredible true story of how a mild sickness called cowpox helped defeat a terrifying disease called smallpox. You will find out how scientists discovered they could give your immune system a safe practice run by handing your cells a "wanted poster" of the germs, creating the world's very first vaccine! From giant germ-eating cells to memory cells that patrol your blood forever, join Mira and Finn for a fascinating journey into the microscopic superhero movie happening inside you every single day!

Have you ever wondered why your body does wild and wacky things without even asking you first? Join Mira and Finn on Science is Not Boring as they explore the strange secrets of the human body! Discover why a sneeze is like a powerful explosion that can launch a gross cloud of 40,000 tiny droplets at 100 miles per hour across a room! Learn the mind-blowing truth about yawning—it isn't just about being tired, it actually acts like a built-in air conditioner to cool down your brain! We will also uncover the mystery of hiccups, including the unbelievable true story of Charles Osborne, a man who hiccupped an estimated 430 million times over 68 straight years just from falling over on a farm! Finally, find out why we get goosebumps when we are cold or scared, and how it is actually a leftover survival trick from millions of years ago when our ancient human ancestors were covered in thick fur. Your body is basically a walking museum full of ancient tricks and involuntary reflexes. Tune in for fascinating facts that prove science is definitely not boring!

Have you ever looked up at the sky and wondered how those giant fluffy clouds got their names? Or how something that floats perfectly in the air can actually weigh as much as ONE HUNDRED full-grown elephants?! Join Mira and Finn on an unbelievable weather adventure as they discover the secret science of clouds! You'll learn all about a curious amateur meteorologist named Luke Howard who changed science forever back in 1802. Before him, nobody knew what to call the chaotic shapes in the sky! We'll explore his awesome Latin names for clouds, from the giant, fluffy "Cumulus" heaps to the high, icy "Cirrus" streaks that look like wispy curls of hair. Get ready to brave the massive, lightning-filled "Cumulonimbus" storm clouds that stretch eleven miles into the sky, and uncover the mystery of "Lenticular" clouds that look exactly like hovering alien UFOs! Packed with mind-blowing weather facts, invisible air hands, and a fun trivia quiz, this episode will make sure you never look at the sky the same way again. Grab your umbrella and let's go cloud watching!

Have you ever wondered where everything in space actually came from? The Earth, the sun, the stars, and even you? Travel back in time nearly 14 billion years to a moment when the entire universe was smaller than a tiny dot drawn with a pencil! Join Mira and Finn on a completely mind-blowing journey to witness the greatest and most powerful event in history: the Big Bang! You'll discover how a perfectly microscopic dot rapidly stretched into a boiling hot soup of cosmic energy, expanding faster than a single blink of an eye. We'll learn about Edwin Hubble's giant telescope, why the universe went totally pitch dark for hundreds of millions of years, and how a pair of messy pigeons accidentally helped scientists prove how it all began! Finally, find out the most amazing secret of all—how every single atom inside your body was forged inside the fiery heart of ancient, exploding stars. You are quite literally made of stardust! Get ready for an epic space adventure that will change how you look at the night sky forever!

Have you ever wondered why an apple falls from a tree, but the Moon never crashes into Earth? Or why astronauts seem to float in space? (Hint: They aren't actually floating at all!) Join Mira and Finn on a mind-bending adventure to uncover the universe's greatest invisible force: gravity! Travel back in time to 1666 to sit under the exact tree where Isaac Newton figured out how Earth's invisible rope pulls things down. Then, discover the wildest secret of the International Space Station! Astronauts are actually falling towards Earth at an incredible 17,500 miles per hour, but they are moving so fast sideways that they keep missing the ground entirely! But wait, it gets even crazier! Learn how Albert Einstein proved that massive objects like the Sun can bend space and time like a giant heavy bowling ball on a trampoline, even curving beams of starlight! Find out why your feet are slightly younger than your head, how satellites use Einstein's math to keep your phone's GPS from driving you into a lake, and why the giant planet Jupiter acts like a cosmic pinball machine!

Have you ever wondered what your brain actually does when you close your eyes at night? You might be resting, but your brain is actually throwing a massive, high-speed cleaning party! Join Mira and Finn on Science is Not Boring as they uncover the wild and wacky secrets of sleep. Did you know you will spend about 25 years of your life completely asleep? It sounds like a lot of time, but sleep is a matter of life and death! Discover the shocking true story of a teenager who stayed awake for 11 straight days (and started hallucinating!), and learn about the amazing Great Frigatebird that takes 10-second micro-naps while flying high over the ocean. But the absolute coolest part? Your brain cells literally shrink at night so a special fluid can power-wash away toxic waste! That’s right, you have a built-in brain dishwasher called the Glymphatic System. Plus, find out how sleep saves your coolest memories, why your body paralyzes itself during dreams, and how clever dolphins sleep with only half their brain at a time!

Did you know there are mind-blowing treasures hiding right above our heads in space? Join Mira and Finn on an epic cosmic treasure hunt to discover what the Moon and planets are really made of! First, we blast off to the Moon, where dark, freezing craters hold billions of tons of water ice—the perfect fuel for future space explorers! Then, hold onto your spacesuits as we fly to the asteroid belt to find 16 Psyche, a giant metal rock packed with so much gold, iron, and platinum that it is theoretically worth 10 quintillion dollars! That is a number with 18 zeros! But the adventure doesn't stop there. We travel to the freezing edges of our solar system to visit Neptune, where extreme pressure crushes gas into microscopic crystals, causing it to literally rain solid diamonds deep inside the planet! We even learn about a distant exoplanet that might be made entirely of diamond and graphite. It is a journey filled with explosive fun facts, wild numbers, and a cosmic quiz to test your space knowledge. Buckle up and get ready to explore the wildest, sparkliest secrets of the solar system!

Have you ever wondered how a tiny little speck can become a giant, towering tree? Join Mira and Finn on a wild botanical adventure to discover exactly what seeds are, how they are made, and how they grow into brand new plants! You might think all seeds are just small brown dots, but nature is full of huge surprises. Did you know the Coco de mer palm tree makes a giant seed that weighs as much as a Golden Retriever dog? Or that some orchid seeds are so microscopic you could fit a million of them on a single spoon? In this exciting episode, you'll uncover the secret "lunchbox" packed inside every seed and learn how busy flying friends like bees help flowers make them. Plus, get ready for some unbelievable seed survival stories! You'll hear about an Ice Age squirrel that buried fruit 32,000 years ago—which scientists actually grew into a flower today! Finally, take cover from the explosive Sandbox tree, a botanical cannon that shoots its seeds out at 150 miles per hour! Tune in to find out why seeds are the ultimate action heroes of the natural world!

Buckle up for a wild ride into the future! Have you ever wondered what it would be like to ride in a car that drives itself—with nobody touching the steering wheel? Join Mira and Finn on Science is Not Boring as they explore the amazing robotic brains behind self-driving cars! Discover how these futuristic vehicles use an incredible technology called LiDAR to shoot millions of invisible laser beams every second, creating a massive 3D video game-style map of the world. You won't believe how smart they are! Did you know a modern robot car uses over one hundred million lines of computer code? That is way more than a giant flying passenger jet! We'll also travel back in time to the 1980s to meet Ernst Dickmanns and his crazy five-ton self-driving van. Plus, we'll answer a special listener question about a real-life transforming sports car from Slovakia that grows giant wings and actually flies through the clouds! Get ready to explore spinning lasers, super-fast robot brains, and the high-flying future of engineering! Tap play and let's hit the road!

Imagine screaming so loud that someone hears you on the exact opposite side of the country! In the summer of 1997, scientists using super-sensitive underwater microphones called hydrophones recorded an incredible sound deep in the ocean. It was so loud it traveled over 3,000 miles underwater. They called it the Bloop! But what made this mysterious noise? The sound was significantly louder than a blue whale—the loudest animal on Earth. Because the sound waves looked organic, people everywhere started to wonder: was there a giant, undiscovered sea monster lurking in the deepest, darkest depths near Antarctica? For years, the Bloop was one of the ocean's greatest unsolved mysteries! Join Mira and Finn as they dive into this thrilling deep-sea detective story! You will learn all about the secret underwater SOFAR channel, how the Navy spies on the ocean floor, and the epic final reveal of what the Bloop actually was (hint: it involves snapping glaciers and massive icequakes!). Get ready to hold your breath and plunge into the watery unknown!

Look up at the night sky! Have you ever wondered what those tiny, twinkling lights actually are? Join Mira and Finn on a wild cosmic journey to uncover the secret lives of stars! You'll discover that our Sun is actually a giant, roaring fireball reaching a mind-blowing 27 million degrees Fahrenheit at its core. But what is it made of? Hint: It's not fire! Learn how hydrogen and helium crash together in an explosive process called nuclear fusion to create blinding light. We'll solve the mystery of why stars seem to twinkle and flicker—it’s actually Earth's wavy air playing tricks on your eyes! Then, prepare to have your mind blown by the terrifying Red Hypergiant star, Stephenson 2-18, which is so massively huge it could swallow up the entire planet Saturn! Finally, find out what happens when giant stars run out of fuel and blast across the galaxy in a spectacular supernova. You'll even learn a crazy, true secret: you are made of star-stuff, and the iron in your very own blood was made inside an exploding star billions of years ago! Get ready to launch into this amazing space adventure!