✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • January 26, 2026

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Michael Cosentino
January 26th, 2026

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In today's smart news: Robotic crabs and stingrays 🦀, big-brained raccoons 🦝, and is your weekend giving you "social jetlag"? ⏰ Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

What happens to the way we think after swiping through TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts for ten minutes?

 

What happens when a father robin brings back a spider that is far too big for his hours-old hatchlings to swallow?

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

⏰ Your weekend sleep schedule might be giving you "social jetlag" • Popular Science

🐉 A 2,000-year-old Chinese device was able to detect earthquakes from hundreds of kilometers away • Open Culture

🦀 Researchers in Australia used a robotic "spy crab" to watch thousands of spider crabs molt • BBC Discover Wildlife

🐟 See also: Scientists built a robot to solve the 150-million-year-old mystery of how stingrays swim • Popular Science

🍫 In the Philippines, there are 1,200 "perfect" symmetrical mounds known as the Chocolate Hills • Live Science

🧠 The "mental burn" you feel when learning something new is actually your brain getting stronger • The Conversation

🦝 A raccoon’s brain is more like a primate’s (and ours) than we ever realized • Good.is

⚖️ Your brain treats the "dread" of a loss 6 times more intensely than the hope of a win • Popular Science

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