✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • September 16, 2025

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In today's science news: ants that clone other species 🐜, how scientists predicted today's warming decades ago 📈, and a brown dwarf named "The Accident" helps solve a mystery 🔭. Plus, lots more headlines down below 👇

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“These may just look like pretty little rocks,” biogeochemist Dr. Rachel Phillips begins while standing in a lake with a few colorfully banded rocks in her hands, “but they’re actually the end of a 1.1 billion-year story.” “I’m in Minnesota, and the lakes up here have an abundance of beautiful…

In Delhi, India, where the climate crisis drove nighttime temperatures to a record 35.2°C (95.4°F) in 2024, air conditioning isn’t reliable or sustainable. In response to events like these, architect Monish Siripurapu and his team at CoolAnt are rethinking ancient terracotta cooling techniques used in Indian and Egyptian cultures to…

🪐🧬🧠 Today’s science news

🐜 European ants found cloning males of different species to survive • Live Science

📈 How climate scientists built computer models predicting today's warming decades ago • Quanta Magazine

🔭 A citizen scientist discovered a brown dwarf nicknamed "The Accident" that helped solve a decades-old mystery • The Debrief

🐨 Australia approved the world's first chlamydia vaccine for koalas • Mongabay

📚 The story of librarian Augusta Baker, who transformed Harlem's library into a cultural center celebrating Black children's stories • JSTOR Daily

🧫 How do scientists weigh single cells that are 100 billion times lighter than kitchen scales can detect? • ZME Science

🧊 Melting permafrost in Alaska is turning rivers orange with toxic metals • Popular Mechanics

📸 The 2025 Astronomy Photographer of the Year winners have been announced • My Modern Met

🌙 Why is the Moon drifting 3.8 cm farther from Earth each year? • The Conversation

🌊 The Caspian Sea – the world's largest inland body of water – is shrinking rapidly due to climate change • The Conversation

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