✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • September 15, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
September 15th, 2025

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In today's science news: what does space smell like? 👃, why are there so many venomous animals in Australia? 🐍, and a teen who turned soap into a 50¢ treatment for cancer 🧼. Plus more news headlines down below 👇

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🔥 🪴 🦅 Today on TKSST

When you make popcorn, how do you make it? Do inedible kernels end up at the bottom of the bowl? What determines whether they pop into fluffy perfection or remain stubbornly unpopped? Food science educator and self-proclaimed “popcorn goblin” Kate Yoshida explores the physics and economics behind unpopped popcorn kernels…

 

Whether you’re creating a modern flower vase, a useful storage pot, or a minimalistic sculpture, this V&A Up Next tutorial by ceramic artist and educator Charlie Brookes introduces the art of coil pottery. Using air-dry clay, a wooden board or plate, a runny mixture of clay slip that you can…

 

🪐🧬🧠 Today’s science news

🥩 Astronauts say space smells like burnt steak and welding fumes • BGR

🪼 Why does Australia has so many venomous animals? • Discover Wildlife

🐆 The 2025 Black and White Photo Awards showcase images of wildlife and landscapes from over 90 countries • Popular Science

🪲 Smithsonian researchers solve the mystery of Panama's “flag”-waving matador bugs • Popular Science

🧼 An Ethiopian-American teen created $0.50 soap that fights skin cancer, wins top science prize • ZME Science

🧬 Being in space activates ancient "dark genome" in astronaut DNA, accelerating stem cell aging • Futurism

📶 Scientists created a tiny 6G chip that could make data 10,000 times faster than current phones • Live Science

🪨 Archaeologists found ancient stone circles under Lake Michigan that could be older than Stonehenge • Science Focus

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