✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • July 9, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
July 9th, 2025

Daily knowledge and wonder. Share it with a kid.

In today's news: How an ancient Egyptian's tooth revealed a complete genome, why a few summer days will be shorter this year, and an exoplanet that's destroying itself. More headlines after the video 👇

 

🪐 Space & Astronomy Week

We've confirmed almost 5,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, with over 8,400 more waiting to be verified. From Super-Earths to Neptune-like worlds, these discoveries include planets orbiting in habitable zones where liquid water might exist - but we still haven't found a true Earth twin.

 
🪐🧬🧠 Top 5 Things We Learned Today

🦷 DNA from a 4,500-year-old Egyptian potter's tooth provides proof of ancient trade connections | Smithsonian Magazine

📈 In a first, scientists captured slow-motion earthquakes in real time – seismic events that take weeks to travel just 30 km | Science Alert

⌚️ This summer, three days will be shorter due the moon's position | Live Science

🦀 Thousands of different plant and animal species inhabit Rome’s ancient ruins, including giant crabs trapped in 2,000-year-old sewers | Smithsonian Magazine

☄️ Astronomers found the first exoplanet that’s triggering its own destruction | Science Alert

 

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