✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • July 16, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
July 16th, 2025

Daily knowledge and wonder. Share it with a kid.

In today's news: AI scans venom for new antibiotics, a stolen Stradivarius may be hiding in Japan, and how Reading Rainbow tackled summer reading. More headlines after the beetle video 👇

 

🪲 Flight & Aviation Week

At 6,000 frames per second, these "huge and lumbering" scarab beetles transform into graceful fliers with wings like steady oars rowing through air.

 
🪐🧬🧠 Top 5 Things We Learned Today

🎻 A Japanese violinist denied any connection to a 316-year-old Stradivarius possibly stolen during WWII | Smithsonian Magazine

🐍 AI scanned 40 million venom compounds in mere hours, finding hundreds of potential antibiotics | Phys.org

🦅 In a first, a harpy eagle attacked a woman by grabbing her with its talons during a nature tour | Smithsonian Magazine

🪐 Scientists are considering probing Uranus after detecting a peculiar heat source | Space.com

🌈 How Reading Rainbow helped bridge the literacy gap for 23 years | Smithsonian Magazine

 

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