✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • September 11, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
September 11th, 2025

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In today's science news: NASA announces new evidence of life on ancient Mars 🦠, why AI mental shortcuts are bad for learning 🧠, and how a Greek military battle created today's marathon 🏃‍➡️. Plus more headlines down below 👇

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🐟 🌊 🧱 Today on TKSST

Meet the Careproctus colliculi. In 2019, this 9 cm long snailfish was filmed swimming above the abyssal seafloor at a depth of over 3,200 meters off the coast of California.

 

Italian artist Raffaele Salvoldi builds majestic architectural structures out of Kapla planks. Watch Salvoldi use over 35,000 planks to create a fantastical central city with patterns, levels, and domed towers.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Today’s science news

🧫 NASA rover finds strongest evidence yet for potential ancient microbial life on Mars • AP News

🦠 More microbial Mars: Scientists find desert microbe that survives space radiation and makes oxygen from Mars dust • Science Alert

🧠 A cognitive psychologist explains why taking mental shortcuts with AI might actually hurt learning • The Conversation

☄️ Scientists warn that deflecting asteroids could accidentally send them hurtling toward Earth • Space.com

🪨 More asteroids: A newly discovered asteroid has been following Earth's orbit for 60 years • Gizmodo

🏃‍➡️ How a small Greek army's victory shaped Western civilization and created today's marathon • Neuroscience News

🐝 Researchers warn that a new parasite is spreading from Asia and could devastate global beekeeping • The Conversation

🧘 The ancient Greek concepts of Chronos and Kairos argue that our obsession with productivity has made us forget the importance of being present • Upworthy

✂️ Global education funding cuts could push 6 million more children out of school by 2026 • Vox

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