✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • October 9, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
October 9th, 2025

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In today's science news: the 9 different kinds of precipitation ☔, the Aztecs' fondness for hummingbirds 🐦‍⬛, and are we living inside a black hole? 🕳️ Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

“Two players, two very different styles. Dragonfly: bold and fast. Damselfly: nimble and precise. Welcome to The Pond. The game is simple: fly and hunt.

 

In the bayous of Mississippi, fifteen eggs sit in a 4-foot-tall nest of grass and debris. These are young American alligators, aka Alligator mississippiensis. From the Smithsonian Channel: “One by one, hatchlings slice their way out of the egg casings. The temperature of the nest during incubation determines the sex…

 

Artist and architect Olalekan Jeyifous reimagines his Crown Heights, Brooklyn neighborhood through speculative landscapes, visual references from his Nigerian heritage, and collage work in virtual technologies.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🌌 JWST findings suggest the universe may exist inside a black hole • Space.com

🌧️ Scientists used machine learning to identify nine distinct precipitation types instead of the traditional three • Popular Science

🐦‍⬛ The Aztecs associated tiny hummingbirds with warriors, sun gods, and reincarnated souls • World History

❓️ Do dragonflies bite or sting? • BBC Discover Wildlife

💥 Good news: The Andromeda-Milky Way collision may not happen after all • BBC Sky at Night

📱 One Japanese city is recommending two-hour daily screen time limits for residents • Time

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