✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • August 20, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
August 20th, 2025

Daily knowledge and wonder. Share it with a kid.

From the editor: Happy Wednesday! Today we're digging into mysteries old and new. First, we'll see how a 10-year-old artist transforms her iPad drawing into canvas art 🎨. Then, learn how century-old museum specimens helped scientists realize that king cobras aren't one species but four 🐍.

In today's science news: The cleverness of crows 🐦‍⬛, solar power-producing trees 🌳, and why US high schools are ditching test scores 📝. More headlines after today's videos 👇

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Ten-year-old Emilie Barton walks us through turning her Procreate iPad drawing into a large canvas print. With gentle pacing reminiscent of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, she shares her creative process from digital artwork to print shop visit to careful mounting at home.

 

Century-old museum specimens at Chicago's Field Museum have revealed that what scientists thought was one king cobra species is actually four.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things We Learned Today

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💻 The world's first laptop weighed 24 pounds with a 5-inch screen / ZME Science

🌻 "Chaos gardening" is the viral trend of scattering random seeds and hoping for the best / Phys.org

🪐 The JWST just spotted a new tiny moon orbiting around Uranus / PBS

👁️ Research shows people across cultures and throughout history agree on which body parts matter most / Psy Post

🦴 How did climate change turn a meat-eater into a bone-cruncher? | SciTechDaily

 

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