✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • August 29, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
August 29th, 2025

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In today's science news: A dinosaur-hunting crocodile ancestor 🐊, crafty spiders that harness the power of fireflies 💡, and reusable "jelly ice" that doesn't melt 🧊. Plus more headlines down below 👇

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🪙 🎼 🔊 Today on TKSST

“As the wheel spins around, it actually will touch these little star wheels,” pianist James Shawcross explains. “They will turn the star wheel, which then in turn will pluck the comb and make it make sound.”

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things We Learned Today

ELSEWHERE

🏇 A single genetic mutation 4,200 years ago made horses rideable • ZME Science

🙉 Chinese researchers built a supercomputer with 2 billion artificial neurons mimicking a monkey's brain • Live Science

🦠 After 1,500 years, scientists finally solved the mystery of what caused the Plague of Justinian • Phys.org

🦍 Nobel Prize winner Paul Nurse explains Darwin's theory of natural selection • Big Think

🐦‍⬛ Ruby-throated hummingbirds fly 800 km nonstop across the Gulf of Mexico during migration • Birdwatching Daily

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