Cool Stuff Ride Home
Covering the most interesting and coolest stories that you may have missed around the world in about 15 minutes a day. Cool Stuff Ride Home looks at science, progress, life-hacks, memes, exciting art, and hope. This is the antidote to depressing headlines. Smart stuff in podcast form. Cool news, as a service. Hosted by Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff.
Episodes
July 31, 2025 • 14 mins
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 | IFLScie...
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Scientists Discover Mars Isn’t Round
Reconstructing the Lighthouse of Alexandria
Lemurs age without inflammation—and it could change human health forever
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July 10, 2025 • 10 mins
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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 - coolstuffcommu...
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July 9, 2025 • 19 mins
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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 psycho...
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Heart disease deaths worldwide linked to chemical widely used in plastics
Multisensory VR forest reboots your brain and lifts mood—study confirms
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July 7, 2025 • 16 mins
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Cough medicine turned brain protector? Ambroxol may slow Parkinson’s dementia
The great multivitamin myth: Why the pills could be harming your immune system
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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
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July 1, 2025 • 15 mins
Buried for 23,000 years: These footprints are rewriting American history
Is cheese secretly fueling your nightmares? Science weighs in
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Why protecting your vagus nerve is key to optimal mental health
China’s massive coastal restoration project could backfire
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The James Webb telescope just found a planet by actually ‘seeing’ it
A giant pulse beneath Africa could split the continent — and form an ocean
Swarms of tiny robots could go up your nose, melt the mucus and clean your sinuses
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Researchers create a system to 3-D print houses using fungi and bacteria on Mars without the help of astronauts, a breakthrough that increases the production of hydrogen fuel from solar electricity, and a Chinese satellite that is competing with Starlink.
Martian dust to dream homes: How microbes can build on the red planet | ScienceDailySunlight-Powered Catalyst Supercharges Green Hydrogen Production by 800% | Good News NetworkHo...
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Recycled plastic is a toxic cocktail: Over 80 chemicals found in a single pellet
AI Could Help You Build a Virus. OpenAI Knows It — and It’s Worried
Scientists make concerning discovery after studying farmland soil:
'Highlights the urgent need for coordinated scientific and regulatory efforts'Microplastics are 'sil...
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China’s New Mosquito Drone Could Probably Slip Through Windows and Spy Undetected
Killer whales filmed using tools for the first time – and scientists are stunned
'Your rectum isn't designed for coffee': A very serious doctor probes TikTok's new enema trend | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Coffee Enema: Benefits, Risks...
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June 23, 2025 • 16 mins
The first man-made craft that will reach one-light day away from Earth and the rare blood type that was discovered, which only one person in the world is recorded to have.
In November 2026, NASA's Voyager Spacecraft Will Become First Human-Made Object Ever To Reach A Light-Day From Earth | IFLScience
NASA’s Voyager 1 Is Set to Shatter Space Records – Becoming the First Object to Travel a Light-Day From Earth!
French scientists ...
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June 20, 2025 • 19 mins
DARPA breaks the record for sending energy wireless...and makes popcorn doing it and the Parker Space Probe made its third and final close approach to the Sun and what we learned from this mission.
DARPA program sets distance record for power beaming | DARPA
DARPA Just Beamed Power Over 5 Miles Using Lasers and Used It To Make Popcorn | ZME Science
DARPA's wireless laser power relay sets new distance record | New Atlas
NASA Spac...
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June 16, 2025 • 19 mins
A new discovery with Bronze Age treasure - Meteorite Iron used to create items before the iron age, Japanese scientists invent plastic that dissolves in water and a new discovery that could have a profound impact on brain health.
Strange Metal From Beyond Our World Spotted in Ancient Treasure Stash : ScienceAlertBronze Age 'treasure' was crafted with extraterrestrial metal | Live Science
This Plastic Dissolves in Seawater and ...
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Dehorning Rhinos Looks Brutal But It’s Slashing Poaching Rates by 78 Percent
Why Perovskite LEDs Might Soon Replace Every Light in Your Home
Luxor: Ancient tombs more than 3,000 years old unearthed in Egypt | CNN
Egyptian archaeologists discover three tombs in Luxor | AP News
Luxor Temple - History and Facts | His...
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Terraforming Mars Might Actually Work and Scientists Now Have a Plan to Try It
Thousands of Centuries-Old Trees, Some Extinct in the Wild, Are Preserved by Ancient Temples in ChinaThousands of endangered trees preserved for centuries inside Chinese templesReligious temples are long-term refuges for old trees in human...
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At Secret Math Meeting, Researchers Struggle to Outsmart AI
Frog Saunas Offer a Steamy Lifeline Against a Deadly Amphibian Pandemic
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June 9, 2025 • 20 mins
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First direct observation of the trapped waves that shook the world in 2023
Are We Ready for Death in Space?
Scientists find immune molecule that supercharges plant growth
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