✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • October 29, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
October 29th, 2025

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In today's science news: Why worker bees violently overthrow their queen 🐝, rats catching bats in mid-air 🐀, and what happens if we detect alien intelligence 👽? Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

How do astronomers study black holes and supernovas that radiate beyond the visible spectrum? Host Josh Bernstein visits the Chandra X-ray Observatory’s Mission Control Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts to talk with astrophysicist Dr. Jonathan McDowell.

 

“How do you come up with the physical representation of animals we know lived on Earth, when the evidence of their existence is limited to bone, footprints, and skin impressions at best? How do you decide on color? Pose? Scale? Even setting?

 

What makes Carrion Crows different from their relatives around the world? While most crows live alone or in pairs, the crows of northern Spain do something unusual: they stay home with their parents for up to four years, helping raise new siblings and defending the family territory together.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🦠 Scientists found bacteria thriving under Arctic ice where they weren't supposed to exist • Science Alert

🐝 Worker bees detect viral infections in their queen and coordinate to violently overthrow her • Popular Science

🐀 Researchers captured the first video of rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the air mid-flight • Science.org

🛸 International astronomers have updated protocols for what humanity should do if we detect alien intelligence • Universe Today

🚀 A former Smithsonian curator discusses how 61 American women astronauts changed space exploration since 1978 • Smithsonian Magazine

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