What exactly is sound, and how do we hear it?

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What is the difference between sound and noise? And is noise always a bad thing?

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Did you know that plants use scents to communicate? Learn how some plants use scents to send messages to animals or other plants.

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Your brain uses two different areas to process visual information. Read on to learn how you process faces - and why you sometimes see them in places they don’t exist (like electric sockets)!

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Zoetropes are an early form of animation technology. Learn about this Ingenium artifact and make your own version of this artifact using 3D printing!

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First year Cognitive Neuroscience PhD student

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There’ll be a solar eclipse on August 21. Find out what that is, and how you can see it.

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In people with synesthesia, stimulating one sense leads to the stimulation of another. Letters might always have a certain colour, or subway stations might have a taste!

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If you get seasick, it’s probably because what you see doesn’t match what you feel. So to understand motion sickness, you need to understand how your body senses motion.

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Go to any paint store or nail-polish shelf and you’ll see a dozen or so variations of the color black. Even inside a crayon box, there are a lot of shades. But what is the blackest black out there? (3:22 min.)

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