✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • January 21, 2026

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Michael Cosentino
January 21st, 2026

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In today's STEAM news: Rare coffee sourced from inside of elephants 🐘, a robot bat studies real bats 🦇, and did your ancestors have "bicycle face"? 🚲 Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

He Tongxue and his HTX Studio team spent three years building a real-life piano that visualizes music without any AI or CGI.

 

How does a giant sequoia like General Sherman reach 25 stories into the sky when half its roots are packed into just the top 25 cm of soil?

 

While we see shapes and colors, scent detection dogs like Cariad and Neo read a world of invisible trails.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🐭 To save energy during winter months, common shrews physically shrink their skulls and brains • BBC Discover Wildlife

🐕 Do dog breed stereotypes actually predict how your pet behaves? • Scientific American

🧬 New research explains the biological trade-off between having offspring and living a longer life • Science Daily

📚 How "deep reading" retrains your brain to fight stress and spot misinformation • Science Alert

🦇 A robotic bat is helping scientists understand how real bats see • Popular Science

🚢 A supercomputer created the most accurate simulation ever made of the Titanic’s final moments • BGR

🐘 Some of the world's rarest coffee is created inside an elephant • Science Alert

🚲 During the 1890s, the sudden popularity of bicycles led doctors to warn of fictitious ailments like "bicycle face" and "bicycle hand“ • Cycling Weekly

🐶 Why do basset hounds have long, droopy ears while rottweilers have short, stubby ones? • Nature.com

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