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World’s Oldest Person Celebrates 117 Years of a ‘Nonconfrontational’ Approach to Life World's oldest person celebrates turning 117 Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NASA is about to launch a powerful new eye on the universe Ohio State helps NASA mission lift off to scan the cosmos Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists may have found a shortcut to calorie restriction’s anti-aging benefits Cutting Calories to Slow Aging—Without Compromising Health Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Smartphone Preference a Left or Right Brain Thing? Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A ghostly ribbon of stars reveals hidden dark matter Astronomers Discover a Ghostly River of Stars That Could Reveal Dark Matter Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dolphins hunt with sound, but their prey may be listening back Snooping robot reveals how dolphins use sound to hunt and socialize Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Construction Worker Discovers Gold Hoard After Literally Striking a Gold Bar with His Jackhammer Builders unearth €9m gold stash sealed in walls of Belgian property Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tomatoes beat drought by using water at just the right time How tomato 'golden hour' research could help crops survive heat waves and drought Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quick Thinking Air Traffic Controller Caught Mistake and Prevented Possible ‘Disastrous’ Incident in Phoenix Air traffic controller catches two planes with same call sign, averting disaster Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists turn Starlink into a giant scanner for Earth’s upper atmosphere Starlink Satellites Could Help Scientists Reveal New Details About Earth’s Upper Atmosphere Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

California Creek Restoration Helps Young Salmon Grow Twice as Fast—And Doubles Their Survival Rate Can Habitat Restoration Help Salmon Recover? Prairie Creek Offers Clues Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A vest tested on the Artemis I mission blocked some radiation exposure Radiation-shielding vest aced Artemis I lunar test, could protect astronauts on moon and Mars missions Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fishing Guide Dials 911 for Entangled Manatee, Leading to Rescue While Calf Watches In Georgia, rescuers free manatee entangled in crab-pot line in first documented case Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Zuckerberg Makes the Case for Superintelligence for Everyone Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta drops open-source model Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cheese Lovers Unite: The Benefits of Full-Fat Dairy Documented in Study Without Cholesterol Rise or Weight Gain For decades, we were told to choose low-fat dairy. New research says otherwise Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wine, beer, or spirits? Massive study finds a surprising health divide Wine vs. Beer vs. Spirits: Which Drink Is Linked to the Lowest Health Risk? Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pumas are making roads safer as deer collisions drop 76% Pumas are saving human lives in Washington State. Camera-trap footage reveals how Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mars Rover Discovers Mysterious Field of Honeycomb Textures on Red Planet: ‘Took Our Breath Away’ NASA’s Curiosity rover finds a mysterious honeycomb landscape on Mars Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Contact lenses that repair themselves with UV light Scientists Just Made Contact Lenses That Fix Their Own Scratches – Without Needing Replacing Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two brain circuits decide how strongly habits stick Dual Brain Circuits Drive Habit Formation Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

World’s Oldest Cat Drinks Only Spring Water as She Celebrates 31 Years Old Secret to 31-year-old cat’s long life? Bottled spring water Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Webb Telescope captures dusty structures and hidden activity in the Centaurus A galaxy Starburst Galaxy Centaurus A Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dad Turned Weekly Library Trips with His Daughter into Beloved Community Event: Meet ‘Library Dads’ New Dad Turns Library Trips with Daughter into Weekly Meetup with Dozens of Local Fathers Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your dreams aren’t random. Your brain is rewriting reality Scientists Finally Figured Out What Makes Your Dreams So Weird Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Card Skimmers Can’t Hide in Verifone Terminals: Radio Signals Now Know Verifone Patents Security Technology That Lets Payment Terminals Detect Their Own Tampering Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Puffin Chick in 30 Years Spotted Emerging From Cliffs Along England’s South Coast First puffin chick spotted in over 30 years at shore Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Underwater cave bones offer a new way to study extinct animals Bone 'fingerprints' unlock hidden stories of underwater caves Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coffee may protect your heart but energy drinks could harm it Up to 5 cups of coffee per day may potentially lower heart disease risk, doctors say Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Off-duty North Texas Firefighter Saves 3 Children Trapped Under Boat on 4th of July "You can breathe, baby": Off-duty North Texas firefighter saves 3 children from overturned boat on 4th of July Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tiny drone hits invisible mode by twisting faster than eye can detect New spinning drone hides in plain sight Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Animals have a genetic switch that puts them in winter mode Study reveals a winter version of the biological clock Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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