✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • October 21, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
October 21st, 2025

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In today's science news: Nuclear fusion captured on slow-motion video ⚛️, how researchers are counting wildebeests from space 🛰️, and a stronger, eco-friendlier cement 🌎. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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Artist David M Bird spent months learning how flowers wilt, petals collapse, and water droplets need chemistry to look realistic – all to create a single photo of a Becorn kneeling before a Dahlia queen with a gift of water.

 

When a bullsnake invades prairie dog burrows hunting for pups, the colony's defense isn't strength but persistence.

 

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🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🦞 A high-speed color camera captured nuclear fusion at 16,000 frames per second • Gizmodo

🛰️ Scientists are using satellites and AI to count migrating wildebeest from space • The Conversation

🦪 Princeton engineers made cement 17 times stronger by copying the hexagonal structure of oyster shells • Popular Mechanics

🎥 A DIY scientist built a 2 billion frame per second camera to record light traveling • Petapixel

🕸️ Experts warn fake spiderwebs and netting can trap and injure birds during Halloween • Birds & Blooms

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