✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • September 23, 2025

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September 23rd, 2025

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In today's science news: A new theory about Siberia's explosive craters 💥, how a loose elk was captured in Central Europe 🫎, and a 2,000 year old Roman farting statuette 💨. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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“The best thing about the big cats’ appearance,” cinematographer Gaokgonwe Seetsele “Sets” Nthomiwa observes in this PBS Nature video, “is the beauty meeting function.” His time filming lions across Botswana’s Okavango Delta gives him insight into how the cats’ iconic traits evolved to solve specific survival challenges. “You tend to…

 

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🪐🧬🧠 Today’s science news

💨 A 2,000-year-old Roman bronze statuette shows that ancient audiences also enjoyed fart jokes • Live Science

🪢 Researchers at the University of Nebraska disproved a century-old mathematical conjecture about measuring knot complexity • Quanta

🐮 Archaeologists discovered that ancient Egyptian cemetery guards used cow toe bone whistles to signal suspicious activity • Popular Science

🫎 A loose elk was captured in Central Europe after eluding officials for months • BBC

💡 University of Colorado Boulder researchers found a certain UV light can drastically reduce airborne allergens within minutes. • Phys.org

🕳️ University of Oslo scientists have a new theory explaining Siberia's mysterious explosive craters • Science Alert

👨‍🚀 NASA selected 10 new astronauts from 8,000 applicants, six of them women • CNN

🔭 American Ani Shastri has won 2025 Astrophotographer of the Year for his deep field image of the Squid Nebula • Fstoppers

🪐 New research raises fresh questions on the possibility of life on Saturn’s moon Enceladus • Science News

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