✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • December 19, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
December 19th, 2025

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In today's science news: A Christmas tree 3-D printed from ice 🧊, a dress-wearing wartime squirrel named Tommy Tucker 🐿️, and a mysterious lemon-shaped exoplanet 🍋. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

What looks like a stick, smells like peppermint, and wages chemical warfare in the world's oldest tropical rainforest? Peppermint stick insects in Australia's Daintree.

 

These mini pavlova balls from Sydney cook Nagi Maehashi look innocent until you bite into them and they explode with lemon curd, raspberry coulis, and whipped cream.

 

At John Taylor Bell Foundry, the UK's last remaining bell foundry, molten bronze pours between layers of sand and clay in a process that demands constant coordination.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🏛️ Rome's new subway stations double as underground museums displaying ancient artifacts • Smithsonian Magazine

🧊 Dutch physicists 3D-printed a Christmas tree from ice • Popular Science

🌋 Most exoplanets thought to be water worlds are actually molten magma planets • Phys.org

🐿️ During WWII a dress-wearing squirrel named Tommy Tucker sold war bonds and boosted morale • Popular Science

🍞 Your common kitchen appliances are emitting trillions of harmful particles • Science Alert

💧 Scientists developed a material that breaks down “forever chemicals” more than 1,000 times better than existing methods • Sci Tech Daily

⏰ Why time feels faster as we age – and how to slow it down • Science Alert

🍋 Astrologists discovered a lemon-shaped exoplanet with a mysterious atmosphere • Scientific American

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