✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • October 15, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
October 15th, 2025

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In today's science news: Is your brain the only organ that can remember? 📝, what did our ancestors 6,000 years ago sound like? 🗣️, and celebrating Ada Lovelace, inventor of the computer algorithm 💻. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

A scanning torpedo glides through murky water, sending ultrasonic pulses downward to map the lakebed below. The echoes return data that reveals shapes hidden in darkness.

 

At Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, researchers in oceanographer Dr. Jules Jaffe’s Laboratory for Underwater Imaging have developed the pioneering Benthic Underwater Microscope with Pulse Amplitude Modulation, nicknamed the BUMP.

 

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🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

📝 NYU researchers show kidney cells can form memories • ZME Science

🗣️ Linguists reconstructed how our ancestors spoke 6,000 years ago • Open Culture

💻 Celebrating Victorian countess Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first computer program in 1842 • ZME Science

🌌 Could cosmic dust particles have delivered life's building blocks to Earth? • Popular Science

🏛️ A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art features artifacts representing 25 significant Egyptian deities • Smithsonian Magazine

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