✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • November 4, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
November 4th, 2025

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In today's science news: A deadly fungus engineered to trick mosquitos 🦟, how to run Doom on a satellite in space 🛰️, and bizarre carnivorous deep sea discoveries 🧽. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

Can wild animals be pets? How do we balance our desire to connect with nature while respecting its independence?

 

What makes something taste like sour cream and onion when it contains neither sour cream nor onions? In this 4-minute video from The New York Times Cooking Studio Kitchen, recipe developer Sue Li demonstrates her Sour Cream and Onion Drop Biscuits.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🦟 Scientists engineered a fungus that smells like flowers to kill mosquitoes • Popular Science

🎮 An Icelandic hacker got Doom running on an ESA satellite • Futurism

🧙‍♀️ Italian town famous for medieval witch hunts nicknamed City of Witches • Smithsonian Magazine

🧽 Deep-sea exploration uncovers bizarre new species, including a carnivorous "death-ball" sponge and bone-eating worms • Discover Magazine

😴 If this is you, you’re not alone – research shows humans historically slept in two segments nightly • Science Alert

🏡 There’s a new roof coating that reflects 97% of sunlight and passively collects water from the air • New Atlas

🦈 Orcas hunt great white sharks by flipping them upside-down to extract nutrient-rich livers • Science Alert

🦀 Scientists found a new crustacean predator 8,000 meters deep in the Atacama Trench • Popular Mechanics

🧬 A protein found in tardigrades protects DNA from radiation damage and could help fight cancer • Discover Magazine

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