✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • January 30, 2026

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Michael Cosentino
January 30th, 2026

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In today's smart news: How a glass of ice water solved the Challenger mystery 40 years ago 🚀, the world's smallest mammal 🦇, and where you can find the bluest skies on Earth ☀️. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

Spend a few minutes inside a cozy tree hollow as a mother red squirrel gives birth to four tiny kits. This rare footage shows the first six weeks of their lives as they grow from one-inch-long newborns to adventurous young tree-climbers.

 

Actor Ke Huy Quan reads "Brian the Lion Who Learned," a story about how a friendly king of the jungle realizes his power can be intimidating.

 

J.M.W. Turner was known as the "Painter of Light" for his ability to capture sunrises, mist, and storms.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🚰 How a glass of ice water solved the Challenger mystery • Nautilus

🐻 Researchers have developed a new AI that can identify individual brown bears • Popular Science

🦇 Meet the adorably tiny bumblebee bat, the world’s smallest mammal • Discover Wild Science

🪐 Astronomers have officially passed the milestone of 6,000 confirmed worlds beyond our solar system • IEEE Spectrum

🇦🇶 Why Antarctica has the bluest sky on Earth • The Guardian

🔵 Scientists still haven’t found the bottom of the world’s deepest blue hole • BBC Science Focus

🐵 Researchers find that bonobos help total strangers without being asked • BBC Discover Wildlife

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