✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • November 14, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
November 14th, 2025

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In today's science news: An AI-powered bandage that tends to your wounds 🤖, turning your house's walls into batteries 🔋, and why are Narwhals toying with Arctic scientists? 🦄. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges became the first Black student to attend William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, following a federal court order to desegregate the school. Escorted by federal marshals through crowds of protesters, Bridges attended classes taught by the only teacher who remained, Barbara Henry. Her enrollment marked a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement and American education. From 2023, here’s more on Ms. Henry…

And from 2025 on TKSST: Between 1912 and 1932, educator Booker T. Washington and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald partnered to build 4,977 schools and 217 teachers' homes across 15 Southern states. Through matched community funding, these Rosenwald Schools served over 663,000 students and dramatically improved literacy rates and educational access for Black communities, ultimately becoming one in five rural schools in the South by 1928.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🏥 A new smart bandage uses AI to monitor wounds and deliver precise treatments automatically • IEEE Spectrum

🏠 MIT researchers created concrete that stores electricity, turning building walls into batteries for powering homes • Anthropocene Magazine

🌍 A crumbling supercontinent called Nuna helped complex life evolve during Earth’s "boring billion" years • Popular Mechanics

🗑️ Researchers are applying archaeological methods to understand plastic pollution as a defining feature of our era • The Conversation

🏯 Chinese archaeologists recently discovered 573 ancient stone fortresses dating from 2800 to 1000 BCE • Greek Reporter

🦄 Scientists are puzzled as to why Narwhals repeatedly bash their underwater microphones in the Arctic • Discover Wildlife

🌟 Astronomers captured the first image of a supernova's olive-shaped explosion just 26 hours after the star died • Gizmodo

🦧 Conservation efforts in Vietnam transformed former hunters and loggers into cave tour guides • Mongabay

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