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Hubble uncovers four hidden dead stars near the Sun Dead stars in our cosmic backyard: Astronomers spot four white dwarfs hiding under our noses Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People Who Live to 100 Have One Thing in Common – And It's Not Just Diet People Who Live to 100 Have One Thing in Common Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Google gets creative with AI recycling Google Turns Old Phones Into AI Servers to Fight E-Waste Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6 New Electric Buses in Colorado Double as Backup Batteries for Denver Area Power Grid Cherry Creek’s yellow school buses will double as electric power plants Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Homegrown catnip rivals DEET as mosquito repellent Catnip lotion works as well as DEET at repelling mosquitoes, study finds Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Milky Way’s Mysterious Glow May Be Dark Matter After All The Milky Way’s weird gamma-ray glow may be dark matter after all Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One plant is all it takes to start an invasive population Mating strategies shape tropical plants' invasive ability Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Female Rower Completes Record-Breaking Solo Journey from California to Hawaii Female American rower completes record-breaking solo journey from California to Hawaii Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AI Can Identify Threats. It Can't Own Security Decisions Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

July Fireworks Include 2 Separate Meteor Showers to Light up the Night Sky Late in the Month July's buck moon to be followed by 2 meteor showers. What to know Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why your dominant hand seems better at almost everything Hand Dominance Is Driven by Practice, Not Birth Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A whopping 14 million species of insects — or more — may roam Earth We've Been Undercounting the Insects. There May Be Three Times as Many Species as We Knew Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fiber-optic cables could help protect whales that never make a sound Fiber-optic cables detect silent whales off Svalbard by tracking pressure waves Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

World's first hotel entirely staffed by robots to open in 2027 'World's First' Hotel Fully Staffed by Robots Could Open Next Year Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Study Finds Many Older Adults Will Improve Over Time–Depending on Their Mindset Yale study finds nearly half of older adults improved with age Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chicago Home Builder Lauded for Halting Construction Just to Save Killdeer Nest Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More daily steps linked to better sleep and mental health More daily steps translate to improved mental health and better sleep among college students Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dutch Ocean Cleanup Folks Are Clearing LA’s Rivers of Trash in Time for 2028 Olympics L.A.'s ultra-urban rivers wash tons of trash out to sea. There's a plan to change that before the Olympics Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Next Computing Revolution May Come From Stacking Chips Like Skyscrapers New 3D silicon chip breakthrough could extend Moore’s Law for years Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coffee hides caffeine's bitterness in a surprising way Why Doesn’t Coffee Taste Like Caffeine? Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Queenless wasp colonies explode into chaos but hidden helpers save them Queenless wasp colonies spiral into chaos - but then something remarkable happens Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feeling older than your age may be linked to poor sleep Feeling older than your age is linked to poor quality sleep Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pet Robots Edge Closer to Reality Roomba Inventor Now Wants You to Own an AI Robot Pet Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can DEET attract mosquitoes? A lab study offers clues Mosquitoes can become attracted to insect repellant, study suggests Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shipwrecks from the Age of the Real ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ Found–and Filmed–for the First Time First shipwrecks linked to real pirates of the Caribbean found in Bahamas Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices