✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • October 10, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
October 10th, 2025

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In today's science news: a lavishly designed medieval bestiary 🐉, why scientists are awakening 40,000-year-old microbes 🦠, and a 1,900-year-old Roman artifact in a New Orleans backyard 🤔. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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The world’s largest honeybee species, the Himalayan giant honey bee, builds nests under overhangs on the Himalayas‘ southwestern faces of vertical cliffs. Some colonies hold over two million bees. With no walls or cover, the bees form a defensive shield several rows deep across the nest’s surface. When a hornet…

 

What does a point have in common with a line, a plane, and a solid? Each represents a different dimension in geometry, and musician Peter Weatherall explains them through song.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

⛏️ Scientists just drilled the deepest core sample of Earth’s mantle yet • Popular Mechanics

🐉 The 13th-century Aberdeen Bestiary, one of the most lavish medieval illuminated manuscripts, has been digitized • Open Culture

🦠 Researchers awakened 40,000-year-old microbes from Arctic permafrost to study climate impacts • BBC Discover Wildlife

🧬 Ancient viral DNA from 5 million years ago still essential for human embryo development • Popular Mechanics

🪦 A New Orleans couple found a 1,900-year-old Roman soldier's gravestone in their backyard • Smithsonian Magazine

🦇 Europe's largest bats hunt migrating songbirds at night • Science News

🐵 How chimpanzees helped African rainforests recover from climate collapse • The Conversation

🧠 VR gaming brain scans reveal ADHD differences in neural connectivity during active tasks • Eurekalert

🧲 A magnetic powder removes up to 96% of microplastics from drinking water • Phys.org

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