✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • October 3, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
October 3rd, 2025

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In today's science news: How many humans have ever lived? 🌍, fast-healing oyster-inspired bone glue 🦴, and a rogue planet that's gaining some serious weight 🪐. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

How does a thin flat Mylar disk full of cuts transform into a parachute mid-fall? Engineers at Polytechnique Montreal are making those cuts, inspired by the Japanese art of paper cutting.

 

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🪐🧬🧠 Things you should know

📊 Demographers estimate that approximately 117 billion humans have ever lived (on Earth) • Scientific American

🗣️ Linguists show Hindi, Greek, and English descended from a single ancient language • The Conversation

🐕 In Good Boy news: a Doberman named Night saved his owner from a grizzly bear attack • Good News Network

🦴 Chinese researchers have developed oyster-inspired bone glue that repairs fractures in minutes • Interesting Engineering

🐬 Researchers studying stranded dolphins discovered brain pathology similar to Alzheimer's disease • Phys.org

🪐 Astronomers observed a rogue planet growing at a record-breaking 6 billion tons per second • Science Alert

🪱 University of California researchers proved that leeches originated as marine hunters, not bloodsuckers • Science Daily

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