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🤖🌳 Two Portuguese teenagers built Trovador, a six-legged #robot that uses AI to plant trees on steep wildfire-damaged terrain too dangerous for humans. #innovation

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Two College Students Are Building a Robot to Replant Burned Forests
Marta Bernardino and Sebastião Mendonça invented Trovador, a six-legged, A.I.-powered robot that can plant trees in hard-to-reach, wildfire-damaged terrain
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🕊️🐦 Experts from The Wildlife Trusts explain that doves and pigeons belong to the same scientific family (Columbidae), with naming often based on size rather than biological differences. #birds #nature

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Dove vs pigeon: one gets bad rep, while the other is a symbol of peace – but what is the difference between these two similar-looking birds? | Discover Wildlife
What's the difference between pigeons and doves? Are doves and pigeons the same thing? Tom Hibbert from The Wildlife Trusts takes a look
www.discoverwildlife.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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🍄💻 Scientists at Ohio State University grew shiitake mushroom colonies in petri dishes and wired them as electrical circuits, discovering the fungi naturally function as memristors similar to computer chips. #science #technology

👉 www.bgr.com/2029100/how-scie...
Scientists Are Turning Shiitake Mushrooms Into Computers - BGR
One of the biggest problems with e-waste is that it doesn't decompose, which is why these new shiitake mushroom–based computers are so compelling.
www.bgr.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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🚀🌌 #NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, traveling at 18 km per second for nearly five decades, reached the historic milestone of being one light-day (26 billion km) from Earth on November 15, 2026. #space

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Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth
The intrepid spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026.
www.popsci.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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🦇🤝 Italian psychologist Francesco Pagnini’s team discovered the “Batman effect” on Milan trains, where the mere presence of someone in a Batman costume increased prosocial helping behavior from 37% to 67%. #psychology #research

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Scientists Discover That People Act Way Better When Batman Is Present
It turns out that the mere presence of a guy dressed as Batman is enough to turn dead inside commuters into momentary altruists.
futurism.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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👁️🌌 Looking at distant objects means observing the past, spanning from Uranus (2 hours 40 minutes away) to the Triangulum galaxy (2.73 million light-years). This video contextualizes these distances by tying them to human history. #astronomy #science

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How far back in time can the naked eye see?
Every observation out into deep space is also a look back in time.
bigthink.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🚀🔬 #NASA highlights 25 major scientific breakthroughs from the ISS's quarter-century of continuous human presence in space since November 2000. #space

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25 Years of Scientific Discovery Aboard the International Space Station - NASA
November marks 25 years of human presence aboard the International Space Station, a testament to international collaboration and human ingenuity. Since the
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November 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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🐕⚓ A dive into the maritime #history of Newfoundland #dogs. These gentle giants still practice water rescue and cart pulling skills their ancestors used on 19th-century ships.

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A day with Newfoundlands, the original ship's dog
The breed's long maritime history of water rescue and draft work lives on.
www.popsci.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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🤖⚾ #Robots from the RAI Institute can throw baseballs at 70 mph (113 km/h), catch balls thrown at 41 mph (66 km/h), and participate in real batting practice. The low-impedance robotic platform demonstrates dynamic manipulation and quick reaction times. #science

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Watch These Robots Throw, Catch, and Hit a Baseball
RAI Institute baseball robots and UBTECH Walker S2 are featured in this week's Video Friday showcasing robotics advances.
spectrum.ieee.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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⚙️🌌 UC Davis researchers developed a Stirling engine that generates electricity by using the temperature difference between Earth's radiant warmth and the cold void of #space. #science

👉 www.popularmechanics.com/sci...
This Engine Turns the Coldness of Space Into Usable Energy
The engine is capable of producing hundreds of milliwatts per square meter, and scientists are already working on practical uses.
www.popularmechanics.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦔🎈 Actor Idris Elba brings gentle humor to this CBeebies bedtime story about inclusion, reading Nick Butterworth's tale of how Percy the Park Keeper helps a hedgehog overcome obstacles to join playground fun. #reading #books

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Actor Idris Elba sits beside an illustration of a smiling hedgehog character holding corks from Nick Butterworth's "The Hedgehog's Balloon"
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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🧠🦔 Research from scientists in Italy and Germany shows sea urchins aren't "primitive" but have complex "all-body brain" nervous systems distributed throughout their anatomy. #science #ocean

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Scientists Thought This Creature Had No Brain. Turns Out It’s All Brain.
The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are now calling an “all-body brain,” with neurons that function as a brain throughout its anatomy.
www.popularmechanics.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🧪⚗️ Dr. Tatiana's enthusiasm for #physics is infectious as she demonstrates Bernoulli's principle with a toilet paper roll and leaf blower, then repurposes materials for an egg drop inertia experiment. #science

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Dr. Tatiana demonstrates Bernoulli's principle using a leaf blower and toilet paper roll
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🚢⚓ Maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen investigates thousands of shipwrecks across the Great Lakes, which became a major transportation hub in the 19th century before modern roads and railways existed. #archaeology #history

👉 www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...
Why Are There So Many Shipwrecks in the Great Lakes?
Meet a maritime archaeologist who explores the historic ships and dugout canoes that lurk beneath the surface of her watery backyard
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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🦔🎈 Actor Idris Elba brings gentle humor to this CBeebies bedtime story about inclusion, reading Nick Butterworth's tale of how Percy the Park Keeper helps a hedgehog overcome obstacles to join playground fun. #reading #books

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Actor Idris Elba sits beside an illustration of a smiling hedgehog character holding corks from Nick Butterworth's "The Hedgehog's Balloon"
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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🧪⚗️ Dr. Tatiana's enthusiasm for #physics is infectious as she demonstrates Bernoulli's principle with a toilet paper roll and leaf blower, then repurposes materials for an egg drop inertia experiment. #science

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Dr. Tatiana demonstrates Bernoulli's principle using a leaf blower and toilet paper roll
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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🌱🚀 Researchers from Hokkaido University attached moss spores to the outside of the International Space Station for 9 months, exposing them to the vacuum of #space, extreme temperatures, and radiation.

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Scientists put moss on the outside of the International Space Station for 9 months — then kept it growing back on Earth
A species of moss survived for 9 months on the outside of the International Space Station, new research reveals — and 80% of the samples kept reproducing when returned to Earth.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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🧙‍♀️✨ The pointy hat we associate with witches wasn’t actually linked to them historically. It became iconic through centuries of artworks and fairytales. #art #history

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Bronze Age to Elphaba: The centuries-old origins of the witch's hat
As Wicked: For Good is released, what are the historic meanings of conical headwear, and how has it evolved – from its ancient origins to the empowered Elphaba?
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November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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🧬🍄 Researchers at Jiangnan University in China used CRISPR to engineer fungus producing more protein with less environmental impact and a "meat-like" texture. #food #science

👉 scitechdaily.com/crispr-supe...
CRISPR Supercharges a Meatlike Fungus Into a Sustainable Protein Powerhouse
CRISPR has turned a simple fungus into a fast-growing, meat-like protein source with impressively low environmental impact.
scitechdaily.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦤🌴 An undisturbed New Guinea rainforest, huge muddy footprints, and a bird that looks and sounds like a living dinosaur. This @cornellbirds.bsky.social video follows local guides as they track northern cassowaries in a forest "built by #birds." #wildlife

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/flovu
A human hand placed next to a large three-toed bird footprint pressed into dark mud on a rainforest floor, with fallen leaves scattered around both.
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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👶🎒 Researchers at the University of Utah conducted controlled experiments measuring metabolic rates and foraging efficiency to scientifically validate what Indigenous women have known for thousands of years about cradleboard design. #engineering #science

👉 www.popsci.com/science/ingid...
Indigenous women engineered energy-efficient baby carriers
The technology helped them while harvesting the vast majority of their community's food.
www.popsci.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🍷💥 Elastic objects like harp strings, bridges, and wine glasses all have natural vibration modes. Researchers use a speaker and strobe light to reveal how a wine glass oscillates at its fundamental frequency before finally shattering. #science

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A wine glass viewed from above, showing visible distortion waves rippling through the glass as it vibrates during a sound frequency experiment.
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🦤🌴 An undisturbed New Guinea rainforest, huge muddy footprints, and a bird that looks and sounds like a living dinosaur. This @cornellbirds.bsky.social video follows local guides as they track northern cassowaries in a forest "built by #birds." #wildlife

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/flovu
A human hand placed next to a large three-toed bird footprint pressed into dark mud on a rainforest floor, with fallen leaves scattered around both.
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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☀️📸 Arizona-based photographer Andrew McCarthy created "The Fall of Icarus," an astrophotograph showing a skydiver silhouetted against the Sun's chromosphere after weeks of mathematical planning and coordination. #science #photography

👉 newatlas.com/photography/and...
How 2025's most famous astrophotograph was shot
Before you ask: no, it's not AI. What you're looking at above is a skydiver framed by the roiling chromosphere of the Sun, with its arches and loops of plasma glowing brightly. That's the result of weeks of meticulous planning, a whole lot of astrophotography know-how, plenty of math, and patience.
newatlas.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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🍷💥 Elastic objects like harp strings, bridges, and wine glasses all have natural vibration modes. Researchers use a speaker and strobe light to reveal how a wine glass oscillates at its fundamental frequency before finally shattering. #science

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post...
**Alt-text:** A wine glass viewed from above, showing visible distortion waves rippling through the glass as it vibrates during a sound frequency experiment.
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM