✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • October 14, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
October 14th, 2025

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In today's science news: AI-skepticism on the rise 🤖, 40,000-year-old microbes up to their old tricks 🦠, and the best bird photos of 2025 🐦. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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“Long before European settlers arrived in North America, the continent was richly populated by many different Indigenous Peoples. These original inhabitants lived in all kinds of environments, and spoke many languages.

 

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🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🤖 Scientists who work with AI daily are growing increasingly skeptical • Futurism

🦠 Newly awakened permafrost microbes immediately began producing climate-warming gases • Live Science

🎹 In 1976 a composer created an all-Moog synthesizer album for helping plants grow • Open Culture

🔫 Archaeologists discovered America's oldest gun from a Spanish explorer's quest for mythical gold cities • Popular Mechanics

⚡ Physicists simulated an optical illusion of what an object looks like when moving near light speed • Live Science

🐘 Italian researchers found evidence that humans butchered elephants 400,000 years ago for food and tools • Discovery Magazine

📸 2025’s Bird Photographer of the Year competition focuses on wildlife conservation and behavior • The Citizen

🌌 Long-read: How Edwin Hubble discovered the Andromeda galaxy in 1923 • Astronomy

🚀 Researchers are developing models for warp drive technology that wouldn’t violate the laws of physics • National Geographic

⛵ How might European colonization have unfolded if Columbus never reached America? • Live Science

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