✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • August 26, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
August 26th, 2025

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From the editor: Happy Tuesday! We've got two inspiring videos today. First, watch how Indian monkeys use community childcare to help raise their young 🐒. Then, how an 8-year-old girl helped pass the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990 ♿️.

In today's science news: Scientists solve the mystery of orange cats 🐈, why we're unable to walk through walls 🚶‍♀️, and a molecule that mimics plant photosynthesis 🌿. More headlines after today's videos 👇

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For Hanuman langurs, old world monkeys native to India, “many parenting skills are not instinctive,” Sir David Attenborough explains.

 

When eight-year-old Jennifer Keelan declared “I’ll take all night if I have to!” she’d left her wheelchair and was crawling up the U.S. Capitol steps on her hands and knees to push for an American federal civil rights law for people with disabilities.

 

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🪐🧬🧠 Things We Learned Today

ELSEWHERE

🇺🇸 In the news: What is gerrymandering? | TKSST

💍 Caesar's marriages reveal how Roman women navigated politics, loyalty, and power in the Republic's final decades | History Skills

🌊 Tidal flows, not just fertile soil, may have driven the development of humanity's first cities | Archaeology Magazine

🛰️ Space solar panels could beam constant power to Earth by 2050 | Science Alert

🪼 Scientists are building cyborg jellyfish to explore the ocean | Ars Technica

 

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