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

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Michael Cosentino
August 19th, 2025

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From the editor: Happy Tuesday! Today is all about hands-on science 👩‍🔬. We'll watch 8-week-old piglets test their snouts against hidden sweets 🐽, see how Icelandic kids rescue thousands of adorable baby puffins 🐧, and enjoy some wild physics demonstrations, including one that launches pencils at 480 km/h (300 mph) 🚀.

In today's science news: MIT scientists learned to decode animal dreams 😴, a star that tried to take on a black hole 💪, and why do birds seem to fly away as soon as you look at them? 🦅 More headlines after today's videos 👇

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These eight-week-old piglets are putting their snouts to the test in a sweet science experiment. With their super-powered noses that can detect scents from far away, will they choose strawberries, coffee beans, or nothing at all?

 

In Iceland's Westman Islands, entire families stay up all night during "puffling season" to rescue baby puffins confused by town lights.

 

Museum of Science Boston educators demonstrate physics principles through dramatic experiments like spinning platform balance using center of mass, pencil acceleration at 480 km/h with compressed gas, and pressure distribution safety on a bed of over 1,000 nails.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things We Learned Today

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🤖 A humanoid robot can now be purchased for as low as $6,000. Some tinkering required. / The Conversation

🐿️ After rabbits sprouting horns, people are now spotting "zombie squirrels" with strange sores / Gizmodo

🧻 The world's oldest cookbook has a rose wine recipe that doubles as a laxative / Open Culture

🧬 Scientists just created the most synthetic life form ever, by eliminating "letters" in DNA / Science Alert

🐭 Davy Crockett never wore that coonskin cap – Disney invented most of his legend / Smithsonian Magazine

 

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