✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • June 24, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
June 24th, 2025

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Arizona-based watercolor artist Kristin Van Leuven has an easy philosophy about leaf painting: “As long as you like it, it really doesn’t matter. Don’t overthink it! Add your leaves, play around. It’s all for fun, it’s all for art.” Her 9.5-minute tutorial demonstrates this approach through 10 watercolor leaves, how…

 

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🌍 Why did most early human migrations out of Africa fail while one succeeded 50,000 years ago? | SciTechDaily

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☄️ The brand new Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already captured 10 million galaxies and found over 2,000 new asteroids | GeekWire

👽 What if advanced alien civilizations aren't building massive structures we can detect? | SETI

🦠 Scientists at the University of Edinburgh programmed E. coli bacteria to convert plastic bottle waste into paracetamol painkillers | The Guardian

🦥 Why did giant 6-meter tall sloths go extinct 15,000 years ago? The answer won’t surprise you! | EuropeSays 

 

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Sally Ride was 32 years old when she stepped aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983, becoming the first American woman astronaut in space. The physicist completed two shuttle missions before leaving NASA in 1987 to focus on education. Ride spent the rest of her career getting kids…

 

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