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An attendee poses with an actor dressed as a gargoyle at Netherworld. Halloween revelers enjoy being scared because it offers a "catharsis" for our fears about death

This is your brain on a haunted house

CNN Video and text by Isabel Rosales, Jason Morris and Cynthia Salinas Cappellano, CNN | Photographs by Elijah Nouvelage for CNN Stone Mountain, Georgia (CNN) — Why do we pay good money to be terrified? The answer lies somewhere within our psychology, our appetite for entertainment, and the primal thrill of surviving our inner boogeyman.

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An attendee poses with an actor dressed as a gargoyle at Netherworld. Halloween revelers enjoy being scared because it offers a "catharsis" for our fears about death

This is your brain on a haunted house

Video and text by Isabel Rosales, Jason Morris and Cynthia Salinas Cappellano, CNN | Photographs by Elijah Nouvelage for CNN Stone Mountain, Georgia (CNN) — Why do we pay good money to be terrified? The answer lies somewhere within our psychology, our appetite for entertainment, and the primal thrill of surviving our inner boogeyman. Across

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The MARS-V crew botanist and health and safety officer taking notes in a Mars habitat greenhouse.

Inside Mongolia’s ‘Mars camp’: The extreme adventure that wants to turn tourists into astronauts

By Rosanna Philpott, CNN (CNN) — It’s day 25. You wake up in your bunk pod in a snow-capped Martian landscape, far from civilization. Outside it’s -30 degrees Celsius (-22 degrees Fahrenheit). After meditating and eating a breakfast of freeze-dried dumplings, you and your six-person crew don space suits over your thermal underwear and head

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