✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • September 26, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
September 26th, 2025

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In today's science news: the coolest mathematical date of our lifetime 📆, is Earth destined to become another Venus? 🪐, and NASA's plan to nuke an asteroid ☄️. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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What does an ox plowing a field have to do with how we write? Did expensive parchment give us the apostrophe? Why is the hashtag also called the pound sign? And did the exclamation point come from the stacked Latin letters for an exclamation of ‘joy’?

 

“Finding patterns in nature then I'll build some pieces off the interesting cycles,” London-based artist and composer Matthew Wilcock writes in the captions of his motorway cycle compositions.

 

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🪐🧬🧠 Things you should know

📆 Why September 27, 2025 qualifies as the "coolest mathematical date of our lifetime" • Popular Science

🌎 Scientists are modeling Earth's future climate by studying why Venus became hellish despite similar planetary origins • Quanta

☄️ NASA is considering “nuclear disruption” to prevent asteroid 2024 YR4 from hitting the Moon • The Brighter Side

⚫ Researchers are proposing "black hole stars" to explain mysterious red objects discovered by the JWST • Live Science

✍️ A new survey finds teachers are split on the necessity of homework • Education Week

🧬 Vanderbilt U. researchers confirm stuttering is a neurological condition rather than a behavioral or emotional problem • Smithsonian Magazine

💣 Scientists found Nazi V-1 warheads in Baltic Sea that support five times more marine life than their surroundings • Discover Wildlife

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