✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • September 19, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
September 19th, 2025

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In today's science news: how spiders use electricity to fly 🕷️, a fish that passes the marshmallow test 🧠, and a Chewy deep sea coral 🪸. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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🪐🧬🧠 Today’s science news

🧘 Schools teaching young children mindfulness see improved emotional regulation • KQED

🕷️ Spiders use Earth's electrical field to fly through the air • Bay Nature

🫧 Scottish researchers found rocks on the ocean floor that produce oxygen without sunlight • Popular Mechanics

🐙 Cuttlefish passed the marshmallow test by waiting for better food rewards • Science Alert

🏺 The chemist who saved King Tut's fragile treasures • Art Net

🐟 Scientists found 24 fish species successfully breeding in the Chicago River • Phys.org

🪸 Ecologists at the University of Hawai'i named a fuzzy deep-sea coral species after Chewbacca • Popular Science

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