✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • January 20, 2026

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Michael Cosentino
January 20th, 2026

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From the editor: Yesterday was MLK Day in the U.S. so we took the day off from posting new videos. That's why today, we're featuring one of our favorites from the archives: How to build a colorful ice igloo – a timelapse and tutorial. Try it on your next snow day!

In today's STEAM news: How to evacuate a space station in a hurry 🆘, can your pets sense an impending natural disaster? 🙀, and get to know a rare goat/sheep hybrid 🐐. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

The Allred family transforms their winter backyard into an engineering lab, carefully stacking hundreds of rainbow-colored ice blocks into a glowing igloo.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🆘 How to safely evacuate a space station during a medical emergency • BBC

🧑‍🚀 Related: Why astronauts struggle with balance for months after returning to Earth • Science Alert

🐍 Can snakes, dogs, and birds really sense a natural disaster before it happens? • BBC Discover Wildlife

🔴 What is a blood moon? • Space.com

🧠 The idea that your brain is "fully baked" by age 25 is a myth • SciTechDaily

🐈 Why do cats like to lick you? • Popular Science

🐏 Meet the geep, the rare hybrid of a goat and a sheep • BBC Discover Wildlife

🐄 Austrian researchers have documented the first known instance of a cow using a multi-purpose tool • Popular Science

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