✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • September 4, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
September 4th, 2025

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In today's science news: Documenting mountain gorilla conservation in Africa 🦍, the long-awaited collapse of a trillion-ton iceberg 🏔️, and why middle schoolers aren't reading as much as they used to 📚. Plus more headlines down below 👇

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🪐🧬🧠 Things We Learned Today

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🧬 Researchers successfully sequenced DNA from a 4,500-year-old Egyptian man • The Conversation

🐐 Fainting goats don't actually faint • Discover Wild Science

🚰 AI chats consume hundreds of milliliters of water per conversation • Science Alert

🗻 Japanese officials use AI to show how an eruption of Mount Fuji would affect Tokyo • Live Science

⚱️ Eight Bronze Age civilizations in the Mediterranean and Near East developed foundational elements of human culture • The Collector

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