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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

Jan 21, 20267 min

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

Jan 16, 202613 min

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

Jan 16, 202613 min

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

Jan 15, 202612 min

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

Jan 14, 202610 min

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

Jan 13, 202610 min

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

Jan 12, 20269 min

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

Jan 9, 20268 min

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

Jan 8, 202612 min

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

Jan 7, 202611 min

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

Jan 6, 202610 min

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

Jan 5, 202615 min

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

Jan 5, 202615 min

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

Dec 30, 202519 min

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

Dec 29, 202511 min

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

Dec 23, 202513 min

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

Dec 23, 20258 min

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

Dec 19, 202511 min

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

Dec 18, 202512 min

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

Dec 17, 202512 min

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

Dec 16, 20258 min

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

Dec 15, 202511 min

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

Dec 12, 202511 min

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

Dec 11, 202510 min

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

Dec 10, 202511 min

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

Dec 9, 202512 min

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

Dec 8, 202511 min

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

Dec 5, 202512 min

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

Dec 4, 202510 min

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

Dec 3, 202511 min

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

Dec 2, 202511 min

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

Dec 1, 202516 min

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

Nov 28, 202512 min

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

Nov 27, 202511 min

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

Nov 26, 202511 min

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

Nov 25, 202516 min

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

Nov 24, 20259 min

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

Nov 21, 20259 min

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

Nov 20, 202511 min

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

Nov 19, 202511 min

Chimps Share More In Common w/ Human Thinkers; Can Rationally Revise Beliefs

Chimps shock scientists by changing their minds with new evidence Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 18, 20259 min

How a Worm Brain Could Transform AI

This tiny worm’s brain could transform artificial intelligence. Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 17, 202512 min

Gel That Could Replace Enamel

Replacing your enamel has always been impossible...that is until now. A new gel could repair damaged or missing enamel. New gel regrows tooth enamel and could transform dentistry | ScienceDaily Goodbye, Cavities? Scientists Just Found a Way to Regrow Tooth Enamel | SciTechDaily New Gel Regrows Dental Enamel–Which Humans Cannot Do–and Could Revolutionize Tooth Care | Good News Network Biomimetic supramolecular protein matrix restores structure and properties of human dental enamel | Nature Communications Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 14, 202511 min

Rare Toads That Give Birth to Live Young

Scientists discover three new rare toads that "Give birth just like us". Three new Species Of Rare Toads That Give Birth To Live Young Like Humans Discovered | IFLScience Museomics and integrative taxonomy reveal three new species of glandular viviparous tree toads (Nectophrynoides) in Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains (Anura: Bufonidae) New species of toads that give birth to live young discovered in Tanzania | Natural History Museum Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 13, 202512 min

The Lunar "Gold-Rush"

We head to the moon to look at what some are considering the next "gold-rush"; however this has nothing to do with gold but Helium-3 instead. This Startup Is Racing To Be The First To Mine Helium On The Moon | Forbes Helium-3 Could Be the Most Valuable Resource in Space and Nations Are Now Racing to Mine It on the Moon ZME Science Mining Company Says It's Identified Hugely Valuable Material on Surface of the Moon | Futurism Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 12, 202514 min

Artificial Intelligence And The Future of Wikipedia

How AI could soon be used by Wikipedia, according to its founder Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 11, 20257 min

A Common Antibiotic and Acne Drug May Help Ward Off Schizophrenia

Common acne drug may protect against schizophrenia Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 10, 20257 min

More Evidence mRNA Vaccines Are Effective In Helping to Fight Cancer

Cancer treatments may get a boost from mRNA COVID vaccines Brought to you by Express VPN - find out how you can get up to four extra months at ⁠⁠⁠www.ExpressVPN.com/COOL Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 7, 202511 min

A Marvel Of Nature & New Discovery All in One

Scientists Found a Half-Male, Half-Female Spider in Thailand and It’s Fascinating [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 6, 202510 min

Proof That We DON'T Live in a Simulation

Physicists mathematically prove that we don't live in a Matrix world, debunking the idea that the universe is a simulation. Physicists Just Ruled Out The Universe Being a Simulation : ScienceAlert Physicists Have Mathematically Proven the Universe Is Not a Simulation | SciTechDaily Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation | Phys.org Consequences of Undecidability in Physics on the Theory of Everything | Journal of Holography Applications in Physics Brought to you by Express VPN - find out how you can get up to four extra months at ⁠⁠www.ExpressVPN.com/COOL⁠⁠ Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 5, 202514 min