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

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Michael Cosentino
August 13th, 2025

Daily knowledge and wonder. Share it with a kid.

From the editor: Happy Wednesday, eager learners! School is officially in session. We've got three fun videos for you today. You'll learn how a "platypus playspace" is designed 🦫, what the color of your poop means 💩, and how long a tire will roll in a Chilean desert 🛞. Thanks for reading! –MC

In today's science news: An uncategorized mysterious space object 🔭, snails that regrow their eyes 🐌, and the universe's largest black hole 🕳️. More headlines after today's videos 👇

 

Australia's Healesville Sanctuary designed a recovery center specifically for animals that hunt by sensing electrical fields.

 

The average person produces 11,000 kg of waste in a lifetime—more than 6 SUVs worth. This animated lesson follows the complete digestive process, breaking it all down.

 

In one of Earth's driest places, a tire rolls across vast sand dunes in Chile's Atacama Desert. The experiment demonstrates physics concepts in an extreme environment where some weather stations have never recorded rainfall.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things We Learned Today

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🧬 Great white shark DNA contains patterns that scientists can't explain / Science Alert

🏛️ Ancient Troy's collapse wasn't just about war–environmental strain played a key role / The Conversation

💡 Scientists created indoor solar panels that convert 37% of office lighting into electricity / The Debrief

🌋 After Vesuvius erupted, Pompeii's poorest survivors returned to live among the ruins for 400 years / Smithsonian Magazine

🎭 Modern concepts like democracy, philosophy, theater, and jury trials originated in ancient Athens 2,500 years ago / The Collector

 

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