✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • November 13, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
November 13th, 2025

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Editor's note: We're taking a break from sharing new videos for just a few days while we update the TKSST Gift Guide for this holiday season. In the meantime, we'll continue to share the latest science news as well as thematic archived videos throughout the week. And don't forget, we've got over 7,000 videos covering whatever you're curious about!

And in today's science news: A pigeon that saved 194 soldiers 🐦, bees that learned Morse code 🐝, and what exactly happens when you fall asleep? 💤. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

At TKSST we love engineering feats. November 13 marks the 98th anniversary of the opening of New York’s iconic Holland Tunnel. When it opened in 1927, it was the longest underwater vehicular tunnel in the world. The history and engineering of tunnels is fascinating – they’re true tests of humans versus Earth. If you want to learn more about tunnels, we’ve got lots of videos on the subject. Here are a few of our favorites…

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🧠 New brain research explains the process of "falling" asleep • Science Alert

🐦 In 1918 a British carrier pigeon named Cher Ami saved 194 trapped American soldiers • Animals Around The Globe

🗣️ During World War II, Navajo Code Talkers used their unwritten language to create an unbreakable military code • Mental Floss

🐝 Scientists have trained bumblebees to distinguish Morse code-like patterns • Science Alert

📸 Louis Daguerre accidentally captured the first humans in photography during his 1838 Paris street scene • Open Culture

💉 MIT researchers developed injectable brain chips that use immune cells to deliver stimulation without surgery • New Atlas

📦️ Why do cats love boxes so much? Evolution • Popular Science

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