✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • November 11, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
November 11th, 2025

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In today's science news: Toxic worms spreading across Texas 🪱, sponge-worthy dolphins 🐬, and why doesn't boiling water bubble in the microwave? 🫧. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

Ever wondered what it takes to raise a purple swamphen from egg to full-grown bird? These wetland birds with their vivid purple feathers and huge red bills are interesting creatures.

 

What happens when you attach sensors to a mushroom? Scientists and musicians Jon Ross and Andy Kidd of Bionic and the Wires set out to find the answer.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🪱 Climate-fueled flooding is enabling toxic hammerhead flatworms to spread across Texas • Science Alert

🌽 Researchers determined that 5,200 Peruvian holes served as an ancient marketplace and taxation system • Gizmodo

🫧 Why doesn’t boiling water bubble in the microwave? • Live Science

🌉 The Golden Gate Bridge's design solved unprecedented engineering challenges • Open Culture

🐬 Male humpback dolphins wear sea sponges as courtship gifts to attract females in Western Australia • Science Alert

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