Episodes

Nov. 24, 2025

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: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov. 21, 2025

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 - coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choic...
Nov. 20, 2025

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 -...
Nov. 19, 2025

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 - coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov. 18, 2025

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: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov. 17, 2025

How a Worm Brain Could Transform AI

This tiny worm’s brain could transform artificial intelligence. Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov. 14, 2025

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 Commun...
Nov. 13, 2025

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 - coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more ...
Nov. 12, 2025

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 - coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your...
Nov. 11, 2025

Artificial Intelligence And The Future of Wikipedia

How AI could soon be used by Wikipedia, according to its founder Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov. 10, 2025

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. 7, 2025

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. 6, 2025

A Marvel Of Nature & New Discovery All in One

Scientists Found a Half-Male, Half-Female Spider in Thailand and It’s Fascinating coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov. 5, 2025

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 t...
Nov. 4, 2025

Should We "Blow Up" The Asteroid Heading Towards the Moon?

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 - coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov. 3, 2025

Teenage T-Rex or New Dino Species?

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 t...
Oct. 29, 2025

Cool Stuff Daily

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
Oct. 4, 2025

Say What? Ant Queen Produces Offspring of Two Different Species + The Deadly Second Strike of Black Mamba Venom

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: coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sept. 26, 2025

Heading Back to the Moon, Our Quasi-Moon, & Mice and Flies Come Back to Earth

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 | Sm...
Sept. 18, 2025

Our Feline Friends May Hold Clues to Fighting Dementia + The Benefits of ADHD (yes, we said benefits)

Elderly cats with dementia may hold clues for Alzheimer’s People with ADHD may have an underappreciated advantage: Hypercuriosity Contact the Show: coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sept. 15, 2025

Recycled Glass To Assist in Tempering Hurricane Destruction, A Cold to Combat Covid & One Freaky Wasp

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: coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sept. 12, 2025

A New Approach To Generalized Anxiety Disorder + We Were Wrong About Why Ice Is Slippery

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 ⁠ tofind out how you can get up to four extra months FREE. Contact the Show: coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sept. 11, 2025

How Climate Change Increases Our Sugar Consumption

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 - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sept. 6, 2025

The First Pig Lung Transplant In a Human Has Taken Place + A 'Dinosaur Fish' Rediscovered in Ireland

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: coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices