✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • November 17, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
November 17th, 2025

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In today's science news: Urban raccoons show signs of domestication 🦝, 39,000-year-old mammoth RNA decoded 🦣, and why communicating with aliens might be fundamentally impossible 👽. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

How do you make armor from coconut husks, shark teeth, and porcupine fish? Julie Adams from The British Museum explains the traditional materials and methods behind I-Kiribati warrior armor.

 

When economists studied traditional poverty interventions, the results were shocking. School supplies didn't improve education, job training didn't raise incomes, and microfinance created debt cycles. But what happens when you just give people cash instead?

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

⚡ Virginia Tech researchers discovered how to use electricity to make ice jump off surfaces • Popular Science

🦝 Urban raccoons are starting to show signs of domestication • Scientific American

🐙 UC San Diego scientists engineered bacteria to produce octopus camouflage pigment • Sci Tech Daily

🧠 A new study shows speaking multiple languages significantly reduces accelerated aging risk • Trinity College

🧬 Scientists sequence 39,000-year-old mammoth RNA • Live Science

✋ Why are 90% of humans right-handed? • Popular Science

👽 Why communication with aliens might be fundamentally impossible • Ars Technica

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