✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • August 27, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
August 27th, 2025

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In today's science news: Batteries that could power devices for decades 🔋, an orange shark 🦈, and new anti-fatberg technology 🧈. Plus more headlines down below 👇

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🦁💥🐜 Today on TKSST

How can ants smaller than a grain of rice transform the hunting patterns of Africa’s apex predators?

 

Why does Chef Ed Szymanski of Lord’s, an English-style bistro in NYC, cook his eggs for exactly 6 minutes and 20 seconds—not a second more or less?

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things We Learned Today

ELSEWHERE

🌊 Japan launched a power plant that generates electricity from saltwater • Gizmodo

🦫 The humble prairie dog may act as a natural firebreak • Phys.org

🐚 A New Zealand scientist recreated eco-friendly Roman concrete using volcanic pumice and seashells • The Cooldown

🐁 Scientists identified brain cells that control empathy and social memory in mice • Neuroscience News

🐝 Related: Researchers decode how bee brains achieve complex pattern recognition with sesame-seed-sized brains • The Debrief

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