✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • January 27, 2026

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Michael Cosentino
January 27th, 2026

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In today's smart news: a drone umbrella ☂️, why the color purple is just an illusion 🟣, and an app that identifies dino footprints 🦖. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

A humpback whale breach is one of the most powerful and spectacular sights in nature. Scientists still debate exactly why they launch their 40-ton bodies into the air.

 

Artist Ruth Asawa turned the idea of heavy, solid sculpture on its head using a single looping technique endlessly repeated.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

☂️ This DIY autonomous drone umbrella follows you to keep you dry • Popular Science

🟣 Your brain "invents" the color purple even though it technically doesn't exist – Popular Mechanics

🐬 Researchers tracked a community of wild dolphins in Australia that picked up a "tail-walking" habit just for fun – BBC Discover Wildlife

🏖️ Factoid: The Great Lakes hold over 35,000 islands, including one with a "lake-ception" • World Atlas

💧 Related: A new map shows 13 "Great Lakes" worth of water buried under the United States • Eos

🦘 Scientists surprised to discover that behemoth Ice Age kangaroos weighed 250 kilos and could still hop – Smithsonian Magazine

🐌 Scientists created an AI-powered app that matches your discoveries to ancient dinosaur footprints • The Guardian

🪺 Jackie the bald eagle has laid her first egg of the 2026 season • Popular Science

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