✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • October 30, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
October 30th, 2025

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Tomorrow is Halloween, and there's no better time to bake up some spooky treats. To get you in the mood, check out one of our favorite videos on decorating Halloween cookies with royal icing. Yum! 😋

In today's science news: Anti-venom made from llamas and alpacas 🦙, 76 parachuting beavers 🦫, and toads that turn yellow during mating season 🐸. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

With just six cookie cutter designs, cookie artist Grace Gaylord transforms plain pastries into 13 cute Halloween cookies.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🦙 Scientists created snake anti-venom using antibodies from llamas and alpacas • Popular Science

🦫 In 1948 Idaho officials parachuted 76 beavers into the wilderness using surplus wartime gear • Discover Wildlife

🏛️ Why Roman concrete lasts millennia • Science Alert

🐸 Male Asian toads turn neon yellow for two days during monsoon mating season • Smithsonian Magazine

🍎 West Virginia became the first state to implement a ban on seven artificial dyes in school meals • Education Week

🍄 Scientists at Ohio State built working computer memory from shiitake mushroom mycelium • Science Alert

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