✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • January 23, 2026

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Michael Cosentino
January 23rd, 2026

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In today's smart news: Remembering the mother of GPS 💁🏾‍♀️, video footage from the 1896 Olympics 🏛️, and why snow isn't actually white ❄️. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🛰️ Remembering Gladys West, whose math helped pave the way for GPS • Big Think

🏛️ Watch the first-ever footage of a near-unrecognizable Olympics from 1896 • Upworthy

🤧 Researchers locked flu-positive students in a hotel room with healthy volunteers, but why didn’t anyone get sick? • Science Alert

🧬 Should we use genetic engineering to help endangered species adapt? • BBC Discover Wildlife

🍄 Massive 8-meter-high towers were a "third kind" of life that existed long before dinosaurs • Science Alert

🦇 Wild bats in Tanzania helped scientists find the mammal brain's internal compass • Quanta Magazine

❄️ Snow isn't actually white, but rather a pile of tiny, clear mirrors • Popular Science

🌘 Researchers created a "reverse” solar panel that generates electricity from the cold of the night sky • ExtremeTech

🇪🇬 Meet the ancient Egyptian artisans who carved the pyramids • World Archaeology

🎾 Scientists discovered the molecular "glitch" that causes chronic tendon pain • SciTechDaily

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