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Reanimating Brain Tissue from Cryogenic Preservation, 46,000-Year-Old Worm Revived, Mummy Smells, and TDIH - Galileo Banned from Teaching

Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Another Weird Wednesday episode. Today we are reanimating life as scientists successfully revive brain tissue, and a 46,000-year-old worm comes back to the world of the living. Plus, we learn what mummies smelled like. On This Day in History, the Catholic Church bans Galileo from teaching his theory that the Earth rotates around the sun. Scientists Successfully Revived Brain Tissue from Suspended Animation | Popular Mechanics Mouse Brain Slices Were Frozen For A Week, Brought Back To Life | BroBible Frozen worm comes back to life after 46,000 years - Earth.com A worm has been revived after 46,000 years in the Siberian permafrost | CNN A novel nematode species from the Siberian permafrost shares adaptive mechanisms for cryptobiotic survival with C. elegans dauer larva | PLOS Genetics Ancient Egyptian mummies smell 'sweet' and 'spicy', researchers say | Offbeat News | Sky News What Does a Mummy Smell Like? Scientists Uncover Surprising Truth | SciTechDaily The truth about Galileo and his conflict with the Catholic Church | UCLA Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.8

Welcome back once again to Cool Stuff Ride Home where we have some of the more interesting, intriguing and cool stories.

0:51.2

And because it's Wednesday, of course, we're going to have some of the weird.

0:54.6

I'm Reggie Rizu, joined by Marcus Paff on today's weird Wednesday episode.

0:58.5

We are reanimating life as scientists successfully revived brain tissue, and a 46,000-year-old

1:04.5

worm comes back to the world of the living.

1:07.1

Plus, today, we learn what mummies smelt like.

1:10.2

And on this day in history, the Catholic Church bans Galileo from teaching his theory

1:14.4

that the Earth rotates around the sun.

1:16.6

That's all coming up on cool stuff.

1:18.8

Starting off Weird Wednesday with research into suspended animation, as cryopods, deep freezes,

1:24.3

and other techniques, you know they've been a long staple of science fiction

1:27.8

for traveling the stars or maybe visiting the future by sleeping until you get there.

1:33.3

Well, what was one's fantasy is inching closer to reality.

1:37.5

Researcher Alexander German of the University of Erlager Nuremberg in Germany has made

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