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When the Lungs Don't Work, Could People Intake Air Through Their ... Butts?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:39.6

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0:42.9

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0:44.5

Why did the T-Rex have such tiny arms?

0:47.1

And why do so many more kids need glasses now than they used to?

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Our team of scientists digs into the

0:55.0

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0:59.2

facts and terrible puns. Subscribe to Minute Earth wherever you like to listen.

1:07.5

Welcome to a Monday edition of Cool Stuff, Daily and fair warning, today's story, not intended as toilet humor, and it is in fact a 100% legitimate science story. What am I talking about? Well, let's get to it.

1:22.6

We'll file this story under things I never expected to read.

1:31.3

It comes to us from ScienceNews.org and author Maria Temeing.

1:38.3

Takanori Takebe is on a mission to find out if people can breathe, get this, through their butts. As a medical doctor and stem cell biologist, Takebe spends most of his time trying to develop lab-made livers to treat

1:46.2

organ failure. His side quest to explore backside breathing began several years ago when his father

1:52.6

caught pneumonia and had to be put on a ventilator. Says Tekebe of Cincinnati Children's Hospital

1:58.2

Medical Center in Ohio and the University of Osaka in Japan,

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