✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • September 30, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
September 30th, 2025

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In today's science news: that time in 1984 when scientists ate 50,000-year-old meat 🥩, Carl Sagan's "baloney detection kit" 🤔, and a sea fossil named after a punk rocker 🎸. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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A supersaturated sugar solution holds more dissolved sugar than water can normally hold. Hot water holds more sugar than cold water can. What happens as supersaturated hot water cools? Where do the sugar molecules go when they can’t stay dissolved? Rock Candy.

 

Five barn swallow eggs hatch in a back porch mud nest, and British wildlife filmmaker Robert E Fuller documents the entire nesting cycle.

 

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🪐🧬🧠 Things you should know

🥩 In 1984, hungry scientists ate 50,000-year-old bison meat, describing it as having a "strong Pleistocene aroma." • IFL Science

🤔 Carl Sagan's "baloney detection kit" provides 9 tools for spotting pseudoscience and thinking critically • Open Culture

🧽 Scientists renamed ancient seafloor fossils "Lydonia jiggamintia" after punk rocker Johnny Rotten • News Beep

🦀 In Argentina's Mar del Plata Canyon, researchers discovered 40 potential new species including "Barbie crabs" and sea pigs • Earth.com

💰 A federal government shutdown could delay billions in school funding, affecting Title I programs, special ed, and more • EdWeek

🤖 Engineers at the University of Virginia created tiny soft robots that walk on water like insects • SciTechDaily

🍄‍🟫 Researchers at the University of British Columbia created a toilet that uses mushroom mycelia to convert human waste into compost • Popular Science

🐝 Honeybees combine waggle dance directions with their own landscape memories for better navigation • Phys.org

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