✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • November 18, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
November 18th, 2025

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In today's science news: New York's Hudson river reborn 🏞️, why you have dark circles under your eyes 😴, and why firing something into the sun is harder than it sounds 🚀. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

A little duckling's first day of school gets sweeter when they spot a classmate with an empty lunch box and decide to share their Korean dosirak feast, including rice triangles, kimbap rolls, and sweet bungeo-ppang pastries.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🚀 Why firing something into the Sun is harder than it sounds • The Conversation

🏞️ Environmental cleanup has reversed decades of industrial pollution damage in New York’s Hudson River • Smithsonian Magazine

💅 Why overconfidence bias becomes our most dangerous thinking error • Open Culture

😴 Parents, insomniacs: here are the reasons why you have dark circles under your eyes • Popular Science

🌌 AI helped create the first simulation tracking 100 billion individual Milky Way stars • Science Daily

🌋 Scientists remain divided on both when tectonic plates formed and how they originated • BGR

🧬 Researchers created a stretchy, 3D-printable material that could enable synthetic organs • Phys.org

🔭 Pre-Columbian civilizations built temples and monuments aligned with celestial events to track seasons, predict eclipses • The Collector

🦠 Yes, humans are actually still evolving • The Conversation

🌱 An L.A. artist creates temporary wetlands in the L.A. River to inspire guerrilla environmental action • NPR

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