✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • September 29, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
September 29th, 2025

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In today's science news: 80,000-year-old Portuguese toddler footprints 👣, why Indonesian "hobbit" humans were so small 🦷, and why writing in margins makes you smarter ✍️. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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Cello plays the lowest notes, the violin twins play the highest, and viola sits right in the middle—smaller than cello but bigger than the violins. Together with a harpsichord that “might look like a piano but sounds different” and a young girl named Mia, these animated instruments from Boston Baroque…

 

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🪐🧬🧠 Things you should know

📚 Researchers say writing in book margins – a trending practice on TikTok – actually helps memory and comprehension • Scientific American

🏝️ How Indonesian "Hobbit" humans evolved their small stature • Science Alert

🧲 Scientists converted data from Earth's magnetic field reversal 41,000 years ago into eerie audio • Science Alert

♻️ Chinese researchers found retired wind turbine blades make excellent sand barriers in desert regions • Gizmodo

👣 Portuguese researchers discovered 80,000 year old Neanderthal footprints on Algarve beaches, including toddler tracks • Discover Magazine

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