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Published: 1 December 2025

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

Transcribed - Published: 28 November 2025

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

Transcribed - Published: 27 November 2025

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

Transcribed - Published: 26 November 2025

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

Transcribed - Published: 25 November 2025

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

Transcribed - Published: 24 November 2025

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

Transcribed - Published: 21 November 2025

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

Transcribed - Published: 20 November 2025

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

Transcribed - Published: 19 November 2025

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

Transcribed - Published: 18 November 2025

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

Transcribed - Published: 17 November 2025

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

Transcribed - Published: 14 November 2025

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

Transcribed - Published: 13 November 2025

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

Transcribed - Published: 12 November 2025

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

Transcribed - Published: 11 November 2025

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

Transcribed - Published: 10 November 2025

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

Transcribed - Published: 7 November 2025

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

Transcribed - Published: 6 November 2025

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

Transcribed - Published: 5 November 2025

Scientists debate if we should blow up the "city-killer" sized asteroid that has a small chance of crashing into the moon. NASA Scientists Consider Blowing Up "City-Killer" Asteroid Headed for the Moon 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

Transcribed - Published: 4 November 2025

A smaller “teenage” T. rex scientists have been arguing about for nearly 80 years, isn't a teenager at all, it is a completely different species. Newly discovered skeleton rewrites ‘decades of research’ over T. rex and its distant relatives | The Independent Scientists Make Major T. Rex Discovery, Rewriting History of the Most Intriguing Dinosaur - Men's Journal ‘Dueling dinosaurs’ fossil forces a radical rethink of T. rex remains | CNN Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus coexisted at the close of the Cretaceous | Nature 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

Transcribed - Published: 3 November 2025

Cool Stuff Ride Home returns in November with a new name and a sharper focus. Cool Stuff Daily will run every Monday through Friday and focus on one feature story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 29 October 2025

Ant Queen Breaks the Rules of Biology by Producing Male Offspring That Are a Different Species Black Mamba Venom Has a Deadly Hidden Second Strike Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 4 October 2025

We are heading to space - the moon to be exact…and I mean that quite literally. Also, the quasi-moon that has been with us since the 50s and the spacecraft that returned to Earth full of mice and flies. NASA Confirms First Crewed Mission to Orbit The Moon in 50+ Years Set For 2026 : ScienceAlert Artemis II moon mission could fly earlier in 2026, NASA says | USA Today Artemis II - NASA Astronomers Say Earth Has a Newly Discovered 'Quasi-Moon,' a Companion That Shares Its Orbit Around the Sun | Smithsonian A hidden quasi-moon has been quietly orbiting Earth for decades - Futura-Sciences Russian 'Noah's Ark' satellite carrying 75 mice and 1,500 flies lands back on Earth | Space Russia’s ‘Noah’s Ark’ Space Capsule Just Landed With the Creepiest Cargo Ever — 75 Mice and 1,500 Flies Inside | Daily Galaxy-MS Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 26 September 2025

Elderly cats with dementia may hold clues for Alzheimer’s People with ADHD may have an underappreciated advantage: Hypercuriosity Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 18 September 2025

Recycled glass could help fend off coastal erosion A cold today helps keep the COVID away A Venus flytrap wasp? Scientists uncover an ancient insect preserved in amber that snatched its prey Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 15 September 2025

A Single LSD Treatment Could Keep Anxiety At Bay for Months The Real Reason Ice is Slippery, Revealed After 200 years Secure your online data by visiting ⁠ExpressVPN.com/COOL⁠ to find out how you can get up to four extra months FREE. Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 12 September 2025

How Climate Change can cause mankind to consume more sugar and what that sugar does to our bodies. Scientists find a surprising reason why people are eating more sugar | CNN Study finds that in a warming world, Americans eat more sugar | AP News The Truth About Sugar and Its Effect on Your Body | Science News Today Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 11 September 2025

Secure your online data by visiting ⁠⁠ExpressVPN.com/COOL⁠⁠ to find out how you can get up to four extra months FREE. Gene-edited pig lung transplanted into a brain-dead patient for first time Fisherman stunned after catching massive 'dinosaur fish' thought to be extinct: 'I nearly fell over' Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 6 September 2025

Secure your online data by visiting ⁠ExpressVPN.com/COOL⁠ to find out how you can get up to four extra months FREE. How the just right amount of caffeine unlocks lifelong benefits for your body and mind Earth's Seasons Are Out of Sync, Scientists Discover From Space : ScienceAlert Global phenology maps reveal the drivers and effects of seasonal asynchrony | Nature Earth’s seasonal cycles increasingly out of sync « Euro Weekly News Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 5 September 2025

Saturn’s lakes may be creating primitive cells and how Florida is using robotic bunnies to catch one invasive species. NASA finds Titan’s alien lakes may be creating primitive cells | ScienceDaily Robotic bunnies deployed to combat invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades | AP News Researchers deploy 120 robots in Everglades National Park. Their mission is to help catch 20ft snakes | Discover Wildlife Contact the show - [email protected] Secure your online data by visiting ExpressVPN.com/COOL to find out how you can get up to four extra months FREE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 3 September 2025

A record breaking flight offers a glimpse of the future of clean aviation and how satellites are affecting Earth's oldest science - Astronomy. A Swiss Pilot Flew a Solar-Electric Aircraft to the Edge of the Stratosphere | ZME Science Astronomers Warn That Satellite Mega-Constellations Could Steal the Night Sky Forever | ZME Science Contact the show - [email protected] Secure your online data by visiting ⁠ExpressVPN.com/COOL⁠ to find out how you can get up to four extra months FREE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 2 September 2025

The new innovation of "Jelly Ice" that never melts and doesn't hurt the environment. Reusable 'jelly ice' keeps things cold—without meltwater | Phys.org 'Jelly Ice' Inspired by Tofu Never Melts | Gizmodo Contact the show - [email protected] Secure your online data by visiting ⁠ExpressVPN.com/COOL⁠ to find out how you can get up to four extra months FREE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 1 September 2025

'Mental flexibility' is science's best predictor of lasting willpower. Here's how to improve yours NASA's Webb telescope finds a new tiny moon around Uranus - ABC News Uranus may have a 29th moon | Popular Science New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA’s Webb Telescope - NASA Science Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 25 August 2025

Does a short nap actually boost your brain? Here’s what the science says 3D-Printable Alloy Can Take the Heat | NASA Spinoff NASA-developed printable metal can withstand extreme temperatures NASA-Developed Printable Metal Can Take the Heat - NASA Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 23 August 2025

Some People Are Immune to All Viruses. Scientists Now Want To Replicate This Ability for a Universal Antiviral Scientists want you to use toothpaste made from hair. Here’s why Could this new earthquake system give Alaska 50 seconds to prepare? Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 21 August 2025

Scientists say they cruised the ocean in a deep-sea submersible and came across an undiscovered ecosystem The US Navy Just Tested a Laser Weapon That Could Change Warfare Forever Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 15 August 2025

Scientists detect most massive black hole merger ever — and it birthed a monster 225 times as massive as the sun This tiny spacecraft could race to a black hole and rewrite physics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 13 August 2025

This Bionic Knee Plugs Into Your Bones and Nerves, and Feels Just Like A Real Body Part Can Zebrafish Help Human Regrow Hearing Cells? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 11 August 2025

New information on how the moon may have possibly formed and our future plans for our only natural satellite. Nasa to build nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 - US media | BBC NASA wants US to be the first nation to put nuclear reactor on the moon | CNN Politics Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon - POLITICO China found something in Moon samples that shouldn't be there - Earth.com Discovery of natural few-layer graphene on the Moon | National Science Review | Oxford Academic Scientists Shocked by Lunar Soil’s “Magic” in Space Survival Study | SciTechDaily Inherent lunar water enabled photothermal CO2 catalysis: Joule Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 7 August 2025

New reports on the benefits of owning a dog…or pets in general and are dogs actually good at judging people? New study reveals surprising benefit of having a dog | The Independent⁠ ⁠Owning a Cat or Dog Could Boost Brain Health as You Age, Study Finds | Very Well Health⁠ ⁠Do Dogs Know Who’s Good or Bad? The Surprising Truth | SciTechDaily⁠ ⁠Your Dog Is Not A Good Judge Of Character. They Might Not Be Judging You At All | IFLScience⁠ ⁠Do dogs form reputations of humans? No effect of age after indirect and direct experience in a food-giving situation | Animal Cognition Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 31 July 2025

Scientists Discover Mars Isn’t Round Reconstructing the Lighthouse of Alexandria Lemurs age without inflammation—and it could change human health forever Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 14 July 2025

Protect your online privacy TODAY by visiting ⁠⁠ExpressVPN.com/cool⁠⁠ and you can get an extra four months FREE. An extinct bird may be coming back thanks to the help of a movie director. Peter Jackson joins Colossal Biosciences to resurrect New Zealand's moa bird from extinction | AP News The moa, a giant, flightless bird, is next target for de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences | CNN Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 10 July 2025

Protect your online privacy TODAY by visiting ⁠⁠ExpressVPN.com/cool⁠⁠ and you can get an extra four months FREE. An extinct giant bird may be coming back thanks to the help of a movie director. Peter Jackson joins Colossal Biosciences to resurrect New Zealand's moa bird from extinction | AP NewsThe moa, a giant, flightless bird, is next target for de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences | CNNContact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 10 July 2025

Protect your online privacy TODAY by visiting ⁠ExpressVPN.com/cool⁠ and you can get an extra four months FREE. How silencing your phone can help with work and your personal life, plus, the third interstellar object ever discovered is flying through our solar system. "Silent mode" phone users share similar psychological traits - Earth.com silent phone benefits: If your phone’s always on silent, you might have these hidden psychological traits - The Economic Times Frontiers | Effectiveness of mobile mindfulness training on stress, burnout, and work engagement of office workers: protocol for a randomized controlled trial It's Official: NASA Confirms New Interstellar Object Is Zooming Through Solar System : ScienceAlert NASA spots mysterious interstellar object in our solar system Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 9 July 2025

Protect your online privacy TODAY by visiting ExpressVPN.com/cool and you can get an extra four months FREE. Heart disease deaths worldwide linked to chemical widely used in plastics Multisensory VR forest reboots your brain and lifts mood—study confirms Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 8 July 2025

Cough medicine turned brain protector? Ambroxol may slow Parkinson’s dementia ⁠The great multivitamin myth: Why the pills could be harming your immune system⁠  Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 7 July 2025

Why do killer whales keep handing us fish? Scientists unpack the mystery The first commercial space station is nearly here. And it could change space forever Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 4 July 2025

Buried for 23,000 years: These footprints are rewriting American history Is cheese secretly fueling your nightmares? Science weighs in Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 1 July 2025

Why protecting your vagus nerve is key to optimal mental health China’s massive coastal restoration project could backfire Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 30 June 2025