✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • September 12, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
September 12th, 2025

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In today's science news: a 36 petabyte DNA cassette tape 🧬, algae moving around where they shouldn't be able to 🦠, and were Greek Amazon women actually a real thing? 🛡️ Plus more headlines down below 👇

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“Once there was this girl and she was just going about her day. Something made her stop, look, and shout, 'Whoa! Hey!'..."

 

During the alewife run, when millions of these herring-like fish surge upstream from the sea to spawn in Maine’s freshwater lakes, a male Osprey with chicks may need to catch up to three pounds of fish every day.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Today’s science news

🧬 Scientists in China created a DNA "cassette tape" that could store 36 petabytes of data – more than every song every recorded • New Scientist

🦠 Researchers at Stanford discovered tiny algae actively moving inside Arctic ice at record-breaking cold temps • Science Alert

🌋 Archaeologists studying volcanic glass reveal how humans survived a supervolcano eruption 74,000 years ago • The Conversation

🛰️ New AI satellites reveal wildebeest numbers may be half what scientists thought • Discover Wildlife

🛡️ New archaeological evidence confirms Greek Amazon myths were based on real Scythian warrior women • History Extra

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