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

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Michael Cosentino
December 17th, 2025

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In today's science news: Salt-sized autonomous dancing microbots 🤖, a cube-shaped skull found in Mexico 💀, and Andrew Jackson's giant wheel of cheddar 🧀. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

What happens when the gallery closes and everyone goes home? Mildred the Gallery Cat finally has all the art to herself.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🍄 Scientists discovered a parasitic plant that looks like a mushroom, survives without photosynthesis and can clone itself • Sci Tech Daily

🤖 Researchers created fully autonomous microbots smaller than salt grains that cost just one cent each to manufacture • Popular Science

🐕 Buenos Aires hosted a world record-seeking gathering of over 2,000 golden retrievers • Smithsonian Magazine

💀 Archaeologists discovered an unusual ancient cube-shaped skull in Mexico • Popular Mechanics

🧀 Andrew Jackson's 1837 White House farewell party featured guests devouring a 1,400-pound wheel of cheddar • Popular Science

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