✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • July 1, 2025

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🌊 Ocean Exploration Week

With summer in full swing here in the Northern Hemisphere, we're diving deep into Earth's oceans. Each day this week we'll dig into our archives and share a different aspect of ocean exploration—from the deepest trenches to marine research in action. It's perfect timing for beach trips, aquarium visits, or if you're just wondering about the 95% of our oceans that remain unexplored. – Michael C, Editor

 

Molloy Deep, the Sunda Trench, aka Java Trench, the South Sandwich Trench, the Puerto Rico Trench, and the famed Mariana Trench, home of Challenger Deep, the deepest-known point on Earth. These are The Five Deeps, the deepest point in each of Earth’s oceans...

 

🪐🧬🧠 Today We Learned

🪃 A 40,000 year old boomerang was discovered in a Polish cave | Omni Letters

🚰 MIT engineers created a high-tech bubble wrap that pulls drinking water directly from the air | Live Science

🧮 A grad student solved a 60-year-old math problem about when addition becomes impossible | Wired

⚽️ In Beijing, humanoid robots played fully autonomous 3-on-3 soccer using only AI-powered strategies | AP News

🧬 Disney’s new Marvel show Ironheart features a 15-year-old MIT prodigy and is heavy on STEM | CS Monitor

🌹 Archaeologists restored a 2,000-year-old perfume garden in Pompeii | Smithsonian Magazine

🌿 Swiss scientists created living building materials that eat CO₂ and grow stronger over time | Cosmos

🦴 Hear the haunting sounds of the world's oldest musical instrument—a 43,000-year-old flute carved from bear bone | Open Culture

🦗 A 47-million-year-old cicada fossil discovered in Germany pushes back their timeline by 20 million years | SciTechDaily

 

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