✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • August 15, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
August 15th, 2025

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From the editor: We've got two videos for you today that bridge art and science in surprising ways. First, trace the journey from ancient wolf-like ancestors to today's amazing variety of dog breeds across millions of years of evolution 🐕. Then, a peek behind the curtain of classic paintings to see the hidden mathematical grids and geometric patterns that Leonardo da Vinci and other artists used to make their compositions 🎨.

In today's science news: A "ghost particle" that smashed energy records 💥, a parasitic worm that makes itself unnoticed 🪱, and a student who invented a self-cleaning door handle 🧼. More headlines after today's videos 👇

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From ancient wolf-like ancestors to today's incredible diversity of dog breeds, this animation traces millions of years of canine evolution and human selective breeding.

 

This vintage clip from Australia's The Curiosity Show demonstrates how Leonardo da Vinci and other master artists used mathematical principles and hidden geometric frameworks to create their compelling compositions.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things We Learned Today

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🐭 A British student found a tiny jawbone on a beach that belonged to an ancient razor-toothed mouse-sized mammal / Smithsonian Magazine

💭 Scientists just learned to decode internal monologue directly from brain activity / STAT

🐈 Removing 131 feral cats from Japanese islands caused an endangered pigeon population to explode / Discover Wildlife

⚡️ Researchers figured out how to pull electricity from thin air using evaporation / Popular Mechanics

🤷‍♀️ Parents who say "I don't know" raise kids with better intellectual humility / PsyPost

 

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