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🏝️🚀 Researchers from the International Archaeological Research Institute propose that lessons from how humans settled Pacific islands could guide future space colonization strategies, from colony size to ecosystem preservation. #space #archaeology

👉 phys.org/news/2025-11-archae...
The archaeologist's guide to colonizing other worlds
Models help scientists understand everything from the particles that make up the universe to massive superstructures of galaxies at the beginning of time. But sometimes they model more mundane, though ...
phys.org
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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💁 ICYMI: 📸🎩 On November 19, 1863, photographers captured President Lincoln delivering his famous speech at Gettysburg. This video lets you "step into" those historic photos and identify Lincoln and other figures at the dedication ceremony. #history #civilwar

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/q6gI7
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🌉🔧 Engineers overcame formidable challenges to build a suspension bridge across the Golden Gate Strait, including anchoring massive towers and designing cable systems to handle thermal expansion and wind forces. #engineering #history

👉 www.openculture.com/2025/11/...
The Ambitious Engineering Behind the Golden Gate Bridge
As many as a million people crossed the Golden Gate Bridge on foot to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its construction in 1987. Open Culture, openculture.com
www.openculture.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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🐬🧽 Male humpback dolphins wear sea sponges as courtship gifts to attract females in Western #Australia. #wildlife

👉 www.sciencealert.com/dolphin...
Dolphins Spotted Wearing Sea Sponge Hats to Try Woo The Ladies
They think they're so handsome.
www.sciencealert.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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📸🎩 On November 19, 1863, photographers captured President Lincoln delivering his famous speech at Gettysburg. This video lets you "step into" those historic photographs and identify Lincoln, his bodyguard, and other figures at the dedication ceremony. #history #civilwar

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/q6gI7
A composite image showing the modern Gettysburg National Cemetery overlaid with a translucent historical photograph of the 1863 dedication ceremony crowd, with two park rangers standing near the Soldiers' National Monument.
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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🪱⚠️ Bipalium kewense, a Southeast Asian flatworm that produces tetrodotoxin (the same neurotoxin found in pufferfish), is spreading across Texas as heavy rainfall from climate change creates ideal conditions. #science #biology

👉 www.sciencealert.com/toxic-h...
Toxic 'Hammerhead Worm' Is Invading Texas, Triggering Warnings
"Don't kill it, don't squish it, don't cut it up."
www.sciencealert.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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🏺🏔️ Archaeologists at the University of Sydney discovered 5,200 Peruvian holes that may have served as an ancient marketplace and taxation system. #archaeology #science

👉 www.sciencealert.com/we-may-...
We May Finally Know The Purpose of 5,200 Mystery Holes in Peru
The architects are not who we thought.
www.sciencealert.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐣🌿 Dutch hobbyist Alwyn Wils rescued a purple swamphen egg and documented the entire hatching process. These wetland #birds have vivid purple feathers, gigantic red bills, and some seriously large feet. #nature

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A young purple swamphen chick with black downy feathers and bright pink legs stands on a moss-covered rock.
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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💧🫧 A fluid dynamist at Virginia Tech explains that #water doesn't boil at 100ºC because bubbles require energy to form – the water must superheat slightly to overcome the energy cost of creating a gas-liquid interface with surface tension. #physics

👉 www.livescience.com/chemistr...
Why does boiling water have bubbles, except in a microwave?
Bubbles are usually the first sign that water’s coming to the boil, but heating it in a microwave seems to skip this important step. Here’s what’s going on.
www.livescience.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🍄🎹 What happens when you attach sensors to a mushroom? Scientists and musicians Jon Ross and Andy Kidd of Bionic and the Wires set out to find the answer. #art #music

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Sensors attached to a mushroom with white probes measure its bioelectrical signals while a MIDI controller device sits nearby in a woodland setting with grass and forest floor debris.
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Two 109-year-old #WWI soldier letters found in a bottle connected Australian families to their ancestors. #history

👉 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...
109-Year-Old Messages in a Bottle Written by Soldiers Heading to Fight in World War I Discovered on Australian Beach
The two letters survived the past century inside a Schweppes-brand bottle, which Debra Brown found on Wharton Beach in early October
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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🐣🌿 Dutch hobbyist Alwyn Wils rescued a purple swamphen egg and documented the entire hatching process. These wetland #birds have vivid purple feathers, gigantic red bills, and some seriously large feet. #nature

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post...
A young purple swamphen chick with black downy feathers and bright pink legs stands on a moss-covered rock.
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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🍝⚛️ A team at Lund University used particle accelerators and neutron facilities to discover the key to cooking perfect pasta. #science #food

👉 theconversation.com/how-to-c...
How to cook the perfect pasta – we used particle accelerators and reactors to discover the key
Seven grams of salt per litre is optimal, according to physics.
theconversation.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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🍄🎹 What happens when you attach sensors to a mushroom? Scientists and musicians Jon Ross and Andy Kidd of Bionic and the Wires set out to find the answer. #art #music

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post...
Sensors attached to a mushroom with white probes measure its bioelectrical signals while a MIDI controller device sits nearby in a woodland setting with grass and forest floor debris.
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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🐦🔨 Woodpeckers synchronize breathing with strikes like tennis players, turning their bodies into precision biological hammers. #birds #science

👉 www.popsci.com/environment/w...
Woodpeckers grunt like tennis players
‘They take the pecking that we see all birds doing and take it to the extreme.’
www.popsci.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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🌳🦕 Scientists have identified tree species like the Ginkgo biloba and Araucaria (monkey puzzle #trees) that belong to genera dating back 174 million years to the Middle Jurassic Period. #palentology

👉 www.discovermagazine.com/pre...
Prehistoric Trees That Survived Extinction — The Ginkgo and More Still Thrive Today
Prehistoric trees like Ginkgo and monkey-puzzles still have close relatives that go back at least to the time of the dinosaurs.
www.discovermagazine.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🔴🪐 #Mars sunsets aren't like Earth's - they're blue while our red sunsets happen during the day. But billions of years ago, Mars had blue daytime skies just like ours. #space

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Split-view illustration showing Earth and Mars side by side with "THEN" and "NOW" labels, depicting Mars' transition from blue-green with water to its current red appearance.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🎨🖌️ #Art vlogger PearFleur demonstrates monochrome #painting in this tutorial, using just cobalt blue poster paint mixed with white to create beautiful artwork. Without color distractions, it's easier to see and understand how light behaves on different surfaces.

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/cPDs4
A flat lay arrangement showing monochrome painting supplies and artwork featuring various shades of blue paint, including an open sketchbook with blue botanical paintings, paint containers, brushes, and a color value scale chart.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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🛸⚡ The first Jetson Air Games featured four Jetson One personal aircraft competing in what organizers called the "Formula One of the skies" at the 2025 UP.Summit transportation industry event. #aviation #technology

👉 www.livescience.com/technolo...
Watch four flying cars go toe-to-toe in new 'Formula One of the skies'
The Jetson One personal aircraft was recently demonstrated in a four-vehicle aerial race. The aircraft is designed for a single person, takes off and hovers like a helicopter, and can go up to 1,500 feet off the ground.
www.livescience.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🎵🌍 Listen to Ballaké Sissoko play 'Nan Sira Madi' on the kora, a West African instrument that looks like a lute but sounds like a harp. Traditional playing techniques create polyrhythmic patterns similar to flamenco guitar. #music #africa

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A musician wearing traditional red robes sits cross-legged on a white chair, holding a large gourd-bodied kora with multiple strings against a warm yellow background.
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🎨💆 #Art gallery visits reduce stress hormones by 22% and calm inflammatory responses, King's College research shows. #health

👉 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...
Can Visiting an Art Gallery Lower Your Stress Levels and Improve Your Health?
New research found that cortisol levels dropped among volunteers who spent 20 minutes looking at masterpieces at London's Courtauld Gallery
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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🐦🤖 Researchers from University of Amsterdam and Leiden University analyzed 115 videos from The Bird Singalong Project, finding that starlings outperform parrots at mimicking R2-D2's sounds. #birds #starwars

👉 www.popsci.com/environment/b...
Bird or droid? Starlings nail R2-D2 beeps and boops.
The songbirds are even better at mimicking the 'Star Wars' robot than parrots.
www.popsci.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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💍🌌 Armillary sphere rings from the 17th century appear as simple gold bands but unfold into physical models of celestial longitude and latitude that astronomers used for calculations. #astronomy #science

👉 www.openculture.com/2025/11/...
A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens
Rings with a discreet dual purpose have been in use since before the common era, when Hannibal, facing extradition, allegedly ingested the poison he kept secreted behind a gemstone on his finger. Open Culture, openculture.com
www.openculture.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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🔴🪐 #Mars sunsets aren't like Earth's - they're blue while our red sunsets happen during the day. But billions of years ago, Mars had blue daytime skies just like ours. #space

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post...
Split-view illustration showing Earth and Mars side by side with "THEN" and "NOW" labels, depicting Mars' transition from blue-green with water to its current red appearance.
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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🦑🥚 Scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute captured rare footage of a black-eyed #squid mother carrying up to 3,000 eggs suspended from hooks on her arms while swimming through deep waters off the Chilean coast. #biology

👉 www.discoverwildlife.com/ani...
Deep-sea scientists filmed something astonishing and very rarely seen swimming over the seafloor in Chile | Discover Wildlife
The extraordinary footage captures the creature carry something – something it won't let go of for months...
www.discoverwildlife.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM