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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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AI Can Identify Threats. It Can't Own Security Decisions Contact the Show: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NASA's Moon base starts taking shape with rovers, landers, and drones NASA lays out moon base plans with landers, buggies and drones at the top of the list Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A New York Cemetery Was Hiding Over 5 Million Burrowing Bees, One of the World’s Largest Concentrations A New York cemetery was hiding 5.5 million bees underground Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robotics Framework Aims to Prevent Conflicts in Shared Spaces Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two people can absorb different calories from the same meal Not Everyone Gets the Same Amount of Calories From Food. Here’s Why Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Helping Children Laugh Can Make Their Brains More Resilient and Learning Easier Laughter Rewires Brain Architecture and Lowers Cognitive Load Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cooling copper plates could slash data center energy use by 90% 3D-Printed Copper Plates Could Cut Data Center Cooling Energy Use by 97% Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Volcano Is Cleaning up Its Own Environmental Disaster Scientists stunned as volcano cloud destroys methane in the atmosphere Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AI Used to Pinpoint Whale Heat Signatures to Prevent Ship Collisions in San Francisco Bay AI-powered whale-spotting tech may help save San Francisco Bay’s gray whales Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Perfect Espresso Coffee Physics For a perfect espresso shot Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NASA’s powerful new chip could let spacecraft think independently Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On vacation, this 8-year-old girl spotted a hooked sea turtle. She ended up saving one of the world's most endangered species Little Girl Saved Endangered Sea Turtle While On Vacation Sampling DNA in Seawater Can Reveal the Health of Dolphin Populations, in First for Conservation Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Astronomers may have found a record-breaking pair of black holes Scientists Just Discovered How the Universe Builds Monster Black Holes Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doctors worldwide may finally have a reliable way to predict heart risk The New Way to Predict Your Risk of a Heart Attack Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steel rebar may have met its match – in the form of wavy plastic Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices