Is turbulence really like Jello-O? Science backs up the goofy analogy. The viral TikTok video may actually hold up under scrutiny. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A young woman pushes a balled-up piece of napkin into a cup of Jell-O, asking the viewer to imagine that it is an airplane, high in the air.

Though they may look like they are made from rubber, human brains are softer and squishier. Their ability to resist pressure is much less than the polystyrene foam used for packaging, more comparable to that of Jell-O. Nicholas Bennion at Cardiff University in the UK and his colleagues set out to develop a method for obtaining more accurate measurements of the brain's physical properties inside living humans. Most of what we know about how brain tissue reacts to instruments touching it during neurosurgery comes from organs that have been cut into or removed and preserved in chemicals, which can affect tissue stiffness and resilience. The researchers performed MRI scans of people lying face down and then face up to shift the location of the brain in the skull.

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