✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • September 9, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
September 9th, 2025

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In today's science news: How humanoid robots learn human tasks 🤖, the mundane truth about "witches" 🧙‍♀️, and why does anything even exist in the first place? 🤨. Plus more headlines down below 👇

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🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🪭 Climatologist James Lovelock explains why keeping Earth cool protects against catastrophic heating cascades • The MIT Press Reader

🌌 Scientists explain why anything exists at all • Live Science

🐴 To prevent wildfires, conservation groups are reintroducing large herbivores to landscapes abandoned by humans • Atmos

🧙‍♀️ Most people called "witches" were actually just women who knew a lot about medicinal plants • Chemistry World

🤖 Boston Dynamics teaches its humanoid robots tasks by studying human behavior • IEEE Spectrum

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