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

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Michael Cosentino
November 12th, 2025

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In today's science news: A teen builds a robotic hand made of LEGOs 🧱, a secret turtle sanctuary in New Jersey 🐢, and what's the deal with humans and baby teeth? 🦷. Plus, lots more headlines after today's video 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

On November 19, 1863, photographers captured President Lincoln delivering his famous 272-word speech at Gettysburg. This video from the American Battlefield Trust lets you "step into" those historic photographs and identify Lincoln, his bodyguard, and other figures at the dedication ceremony.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🏝️ Archaeologists say lessons from how humans settled Pacific islands could guide future space colonization • Phys.org

🧱 A 16-year-old built a functional robotic hand using only LEGO pieces • Popular Science

🌶️ Good hot: Why do people like spicy food? It’s all about capsaicin tricking the body’s pain sensors • The Guardian

🌡️ Bad hot: Amazon lakes reached as high as 41°C during a drought in 2023, killing hundreds of dolphins and fish • Smithsonian Magazine

🚫 More than 150 countries agreed to phase out mercury-based dental amalgam fillings by 2034 • Science Alert

🦠 NASA’s 1976 Viking Mars landers likely missed signs of Martian life due to misinterpreting data • Big Think

🐱 Animal and human health are mirroring each other as obesity, diabetes, and cancer surge due to shared environmental stressors • SciTechDaily

🦷 Why humans grow baby teeth first, then adult teeth, compared to sharks that regrow teeth endlessly • The Conversation

🇫🇷 Rare 1914 color photographs show Paris during WWI using early Autochrome technology • Open Culture

🤖 A chronicle of humanity's 2,000-year quest to create thinking machines • Discover Wild Science

🐢 A secret New Jersey sanctuary rescues trafficked turtles seized at NYC airports • Popular Science

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