✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • December 11, 2025

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In today's science news: A Swiss tumbleweed-like robot 🌵, the top 50 breakthrough innovations of 2025 🚀, and why rituals are good for your brain 🔁. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

A camera left in a Minnesota forest for over a year captured wolves, bears, deer, and more using the same travel corridor.

Harvard's Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations team just gave the yule log tradition a physics upgrade: a 30-minute loop of a double fire tornado.

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🌵 Swiss engineers created an energy-efficient robot inspired by tumbleweeds • Popular Science

🧱 Lego construction is being used to help teens explore identity, belonging, and civic participation • The Conversation

📵 Australia implements the world's first social media ban for under-16s while other countries consider similar restrictions • Science Alert

💍 Cambridge researchers ranked humans 7th among 35 mammals for monogamy • The Guardian

🧠 Why your brain needs everyday rituals • Big Think

🚀 The top 50 breakthrough innovations for 2025 • Popular Science

🔥 Researchers discovered 400,000-year-old evidence of fire-making by early Neanderthals in England • Gizmodo

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🔥POPULAR🔥 From Rion: One of 9 in a series of DK anthology books, and possibly one of DK's most popular books right now, Mysteries of the Universe uses storytelling to connect us to these mind-blowing, larger-than-life wonders of space and time. Auroras, sunspots, comets, water on Mars, Saturn's rings, nebulae, how planets and stars are born, and so much more, all introduced with a few memorable facts that will enthrall kids (and grownups) of all ages.

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⭐️ AWARD-WINNER ⭐️ From Rion: We've stared at these cards quietly for long periods, and though no one can tell, we're having fun. SET! The Family Game of Visual Perception. A focus and patience builder, this is a brain game for older kids and adults, playing with friends or solo. Find three cards that either share one shape, color, number, or shading among them, or that don't have anything in common at all. Amazing practice for pattern recognition, concentration, and quick-thinking.

This has been a family favorite for years, but I especially love seeing my (now) teens exercise their brains on this one.

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🔥POPULAR🔥Rion says: I would have loved these as a kid, and my kids have them on their recommendation list: Blank. Flip. Books. Oaktown Supply ships out these 100-sheet-thick, durable craft paper books that are cut to just the right size, all bound and ready to animate. For kids and adults who love to draw, create tiny stories, or are super tired of stapling hunks of paper together to make their own. We love these.

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