✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • July 18, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
July 18th, 2025

Daily knowledge and wonder. Share it with a kid.

In today's news: Robots that grow by eating other robots, why solar panels confuse migrating birds, and a floating platform that turns seawater into clean fuel. More headlines after today's video 👇

 

🪂 Flight & Aviation Week

Four acrobats twist and turn in 270 km/h upward-blowing air without ever colliding. The controlled physics of air resistance enables them to perform precise maneuvers in this vertical wind tunnel.

 
🪐🧬🧠 Top 5 Things We Learned Today

🤖 Columbia researchers built robots that grow and repair themselves by consuming parts from other robots | Science Advances

♻️ German researchers launched a floating platform that turns seawater, air, and wind into clean hydrogen and synthetic fuels | New Atlas

🔭 For the first time, astronomers have captured a solar system in its earliest stages of formation | Nature

🥒 The squirting cucumber builds up pressure and launches sticky seeds 12 meters at 48 km/h | NPR

🦆 Solar farms’ reflective panels, which look like water from above, are problematic for birds’ migrations | Phys.org

 

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