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Earth-Like Planet Discovered by Citizen Scientists
Earth-size planet spotted with yearlong orbit | Science | AAAS A potentially habitable new planet has been discovered 146 light-years away – but it may be -70C | Science | The Guardian The Astrophysical Journal Letters - IOPscience Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crows Can Count!
PopSci: Crows can ‘count’ similarly to toddlers, according to new study Contact the show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Last Stand of the Black-breasted Puffleg Hummingbird
The Black-breasted puffleg hummingbird makes its last stand in the Andes | AP News Black-breasted Pufflegs (Eriocnemis nigrivestis) | Earth Life Black-breasted puffleg - Wikipedia Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Common Cold And Why It Hits Some Worse Than Others
Why some people get bad colds and others don’t Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Purple May Not Actually Exist
Purple Isn’t Real, Science Says. Your Brain Is Just Making It Up | Popular Mechanics Did our brains 'invent' the color purple? | Live Science Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Have Scientists Finally Found a Way To Stop Arthritis and Regrow Cartilage?
Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The REAL Color of Snow
Snow Isn't Actually White Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Are You An Anxious Flyer? You'll Want to Hear This
Is turbulence really like Jell-O? Pilots weigh in. Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Interstellar "Tunnels" Connecting Us to Other Stars
New analysis reveals interstellar 'tunnel' linking us to other stars | Earth.com Astronomers Uncover Interstellar "Tunnel" That May Connect Our Solar System to Distant Stars Across the Galaxy | Daily Galaxy The SRG/eROSITA diffuse soft X-ray background - I. The local hot bubble in the western Galactic hemisphere | Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Space Mirrors Reflecting Sunlight at Night
Mirrors in the sky could light up dark nights using reflected sunshine - Earth.com Radical Solar Plan Aims to Beam Sunlight at Night—But Astronomers Are Worried | Daily Galaxy A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to? | The Conversation Reflect Orbital Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Livestock Using Tools? Oh My! Scientists Observe Cow Using Tool For First Time in History
A cow has been filmed using tools for the first time ever, stunning scientists Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The AI Craze And Where We May Be Heading - Pt 1
We might finally know what will burst the AI bubble Have a cool story you'd like us to share or cover? Contact us at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The AI Craze And Where We May Be Heading - Pt 2
We might finally know what will burst the AI bubble Have a cool story you'd like us to share or cover? Contact us at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Could Castration Lead to a Longer Life?
Castration Linked to Increased Lifespan in Mammals | SciTechDaily Scientists Discover Strong Upside for Men Getting Castrated | Futurism Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Robot Horse Coming Soon Than Expected
Kawasaki's Robot Horse Is Going Into Production Kawasaki’s Wild Next-Gen Off-Road Vehicle Will Trade Wheels for Legs | Gear Patrol Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What Should be Done with Washed Up Whale Carcasses
BOOM! That time Oregon blew up a whale with dynamite. | Popular Science Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Can Dogs Learn By Eavesdropping?
Super smart dogs learn by eavesdropping Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
New Hope for Stroke Victims in Advanced Arm Exoskeleton
This is the world’s first entire arm exoskeleton, giving stroke patients more ‘independence' Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
New Animals Discovered Last Year
Meet five new species discovered in 2025 : NPR Meet 14 of the New and Unusual Species of 2025 — From Death Ball Sponges to Pumpkin Toads | Discover Magazine Meet the Species Discovered in 2025 - A-Z Animals Sponsored by Factor -use code coolstuff50off to get 50% off your first box plus free breakfast for 1 year. Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rare Polar Bear Adoption
Polar bear mother adopts cub in rarely documented case | BBC This Mama Polar Bear Adopted a Young Cub—and You Can Track the Family as They Wander Around the Hudson Bay | Smithsonian Magazine Sponsored by Factor -use code coolstuff50off to get 50% off your first box plus free breakfast for 1 year. Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Perfect Opportunity to View Jupiter and Its Moons + A Stray Dog Joins Monks on Their Peace Walk
January Stargazing Offers the Best Time of the Year to See Jupiter and its Moons Rescue Dog Leading 19 Buddhist Monks on 2,300 Mile Peace Walk Across the US Buddhist monks embark on walk of peace from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C. Sponsored by Factor -use code coolstuff50off to get 50% off your first box plus free breakfast for 1 year. Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Part 2: The Story of a Beer That's Also a Vaccine
He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing Sponsored by Factor -use code coolstuff50off to get 50% off your first box plus free breakfast for 1 year. Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Part 1: The Story of a Beer That's Also a Vaccine
He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing Sponsored by Factor -use code coolstuff50off to get 50% off your first box plus free breakfast for 1 year. Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Have We Finally Found a 'Cure' for Gray Hair?
We may finally have a way to reverse grey hair Quantitative mapping of human hair greying and reversal in relation to life stress Hair Repigmentation During Immunotherapy Treatment With an Anti–Programmed Cell Death 1 and Anti–Programmed Cell Death Ligand 1 Agent for Lung Cancer Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Will We Hear from MAVEN Again?
NASA says Maven spacecraft that was orbiting Mars has gone silent - CBS News NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is still silent at Mars — and apparently is spinning, too | Space NASA Loses Signal from Critical Mars Orbiter | Scientific American Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chernobyl Fungus May Eat Radiation and Inspire Future Space Exploration
The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation | BBC Black fungus living at Chernobyl has evolved to "eat" radiation - Earth.com Frontiers | Cultivation of the Dematiaceous Fungus Cladosporium sphaerospermum Aboard the International Space Station and Effects of Ionizing Radiation Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Scientists Claim to Have Discovered 20 New Aquatic Species
Scientists say they have discovered 20 new species deep in the Pacific Ocean Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Strongest Evidence of an Atmosphere on Another Planet
NASA’s Webb Detects Thick Atmosphere Around Broiling Lava World - NASA Science Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
AI Village - Reality Show for AIs
Welcome to the AI Village, a Reality Show for AIs - Decrypt 1,000 AIs were left to build their own village, and the weirdest civilisation emerged | BBC Science Focus Magazine Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why We Are Testing Mayo in Space
Scientists are studying mayonnaise in space, here’s what they’ve found so far! | Daily Galaxy - MSN Scientists are Studying the Behavior of Mayonnaise in Space— Here’s Why it Matters - Green Matters What happens to creams and drugs in space? COLIS studies the behaviour of soft matter in weightlessness | EurekAlert! Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The First Human Cornea Transplant Using 3D-Printed, Lab Grown Tissue
First Human Cornea Transplant Using 3D Printed, Lab-Grown Tissue Restores Sight in a ‘Game Changer’ for Millions Who are Blind Precise Bio completes 1st human cornea transplant using 3D-printed, lab-grown tissue Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What Can A New Computer Model Teach Us About Human Thought
This ‘digital brain’ could soon simulate ethically forbidden experiments Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Geminids Return - How and When You Can Get the Best View
How to catch the Geminid meteor shower in December | AP News How to Watch the Geminid Meteor Shower, Which Peaks This Weekend | Smithsonian Magazine Save on the perfect Holiday gift by visiting AuraFrames.com to get $35 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames - named #1 by Wirecutter - by using promo code COOLSTUFF at checkout. Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your Poop Type Could Impact Your Health
How Long Poop Stays in Your Body Could Impact Your Health, Study Finds : ScienceAlert Advancing human gut microbiota research by considering gut transit time | Gut Save on the perfect Holiday gift by visiting AuraFrames.com to get $35 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames - named #1 by Wirecutter - by using promo code COOLSTUFF at checkout. Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Massive Sunspot Pointed Towards Earth
Giant sunspot on par with the one that birthed the Carrington Event has appeared on the sun — and it's pointed right at Earth | Live Science Massive Sunspot Just Like the One That Caused the 1859 Carrington Event is Pointing Right at Earth! | Daily Galaxy Save on the perfect Holiday gift by visiting AuraFrames.com to get $35 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames - named #1 by Wirecutter - by using promo code COOLSTUFF at checkout. Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rats Catching Bats in the Air & Could Genetically Engineered Pig Livers Be the Future of Human Organ Transplantation
Rats are snatching bats out of the air and eating them Scientists keep a human alive with a genetically engineered pig liver Save on the perfect Holiday gift by visiting AuraFrames.com to get $35 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames - named #1 by Wirecutter - by using promo code COOLSTUFF at checkout. Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When the Lungs Don't Work, Could People Intake Air Through Their ... Butts?
‘Butt breathing’ could help people who can’t get oxygen the regular way Save on the perfect Holiday gift by visiting AuraFrames.com to get $35 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames - named #1 by Wirecutter - by using promo code COOLSTUFF at checkout. Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Anaconda - The Snake that Never Changed
Fossils Reveal the Green Anaconda Has Been a Giant For 12 Million Years | ZME Science Bones of giant anacondas found in Venezuela. Here's what scientists discovered when they pieced them together | Discover Wildlife Gigantism In Anacondas Has Existed For 12 Million Years, As Seen In These Huge Backbone Fossils | IFLScience Fossils reveal anaconda snakes have been giants for millions of years - BBC Newsround Full article: An early origin of gigantism in anacondas (Serpentes: Eunectes) revealed by the fossil record Save on the perfect Holiday gift by visiting AuraFrames.com to get $35 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames - named #1 by Wirecutter - by using promo code COOLSTUFF at checkout. Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2025 Word of the Year
Rage bait takes the title as "2025 Word of the Year" for Oxford Dictionary. ‘Rage bait’ is Oxford’s Word of the Year | CNN Rage bait named word of the year 2025 by Oxford University Press Save on the perfect Holiday gift by visiting AuraFrames.com to get $35 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames - named #1 by Wirecutter - by using promo code COOLSTUFF at checkout. Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A Robot That Swims Through Your Bloodstream To Deliver Medication & A Gene Responsible for Mental Illness
This magnet-powered micro-robot could soon swim through your bloodstream Scientists discover first gene proven to directly cause mental illness Save on the perfect Holiday gift by visiting AuraFrames.com to get $35 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames - named #1 by Wirecutter - by using promo code COOLSTUFF at checkout. Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dogs STILL Share DNA with Wolves and It Has Quite the Influence
Scientists discover hidden wolf DNA in most dogs Save on the perfect Holiday gift by visiting AuraFrames.com to get $35 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames - named #1 by Wirecutter - by using promo code COOLSTUFF at checkout. Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How Far Are We From Communicating with Animals?
Scientists have almost cracked the secret language of animals. Here's what they've learned. Save on the perfect Holiday gift by visiting AuraFrames.com to get $35 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames - named #1 by Wirecutter - by using promo code COOLSTUFF at checkout. Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The First Kiss is Older Than Modern Man & Connection Between Gray Hairs and Cancer
First kiss dates back 21 million years, say scientists | BBC Kissing started 20 million years ago, long before humans existed - UPI.com A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing - ScienceDirect Grey hairs grow when your body shuts down cancer-prone cells, study suggests | BBC Science Focus Magazine For a limited time, visit AuraFrames.com and get $45 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames using promo code COOLSTUFF at checkout. Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
New Structures Beyond Neptune Including a Second Kuiper Belt Found
We’ve found an unexpected structure in the solar system’s Kuiper belt | New Scientist 2nd Kuiper Belt? Our solar system may be much larger than thought | Space "Very Old, Undisturbed Structure" May Have Been Discovered Beyond Neptune, Over 6 Billion Kilometers From The Sun | IFLScience For a limited time, visit AuraFrames.com and get $45 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames using promo code COOLSTUFF at checkout. Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Enceladus Shows Even Stronger Signs of Life
Newly released data from both a Cassini probe mission and supercomputer data increases the chance of that life exists on Enceladus. NASA Cassini Study Finds Organics ‘Fresh’ From Ocean of Enceladus - NASA Supercomputers decode the strange behavior of Enceladus’s plumes | ScienceDaily Fresh ocean spray from Enceladus reveals its strongest life signs - Earth.com Detection of organic compounds in freshly ejected ice grains from Enceladus’s ocean | Nature Astronomy For a limited time, visit AuraFrames.com and get $45 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames using promo code COOLSTUFF at checkout. Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Still Searching for the Elusive Morning Routine for Maximum Productivity? Here's What Science Suggests
This is the Optimal Morning Routine, According to Science For a limited time, visit AuraFrames.com and get $45 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames using promo code COOLSTUFF at checkout. Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Fascinating Reason Bees Replace Their Queens and How It Affects Humans
The Surprising Reason Bees Replace their Queens For a limited time, visit AuraFrames.com and get $45 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames using promo code COOLSTUFF at checkout. Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Brain Implant that Could Help with Depression
A new implant that offers deep brain stimulation could help with depression for some patients. Deep Brain Stimulation Promising for Severe, Resistant Depression - Neuroscience News Brain implants show promise for depression treatment in new study - UPI.com Prefrontal–bed nucleus of the stria terminalis physiological and neuropsychological biomarkers predict therapeutic outcomes in depression | Nature Communications Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Speaking More Than One Language Could Slow Aging
New research shows that when you learn and speak more than one language, your aging could be slowed down compared to those who only know one language. Learning Another Language May Slow Brain Aging, Huge New Study Finds | Scientific American Speaking Two Languages Seems to Slows Aging, Speaking Three or More Augments the Effect | Good News Network Speaking Multiple Languages May Slow Down Biological Aging - Neuroscience News A multilingual guide to slowing aging | Nature Aging Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
First AI Model of the The Milky Way
The first AI model of the Milky Way that tracks over 100 billion starts individually. AI creates the first 100-billion-star Milky Way simulation | ScienceDaily Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices