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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🍪🎨 Turn simple #cookies into nostalgic works of #art with royal icing techniques. The Graceful Baker demonstrates crackle effects, wet-on-wet patterns, and intricate linework to recreate vintage glass ornaments from Grandma's Christmas tree.

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December 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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🤖💪 MIT engineers created artificial tendons from hydrogel, boosting muscle-powered robot performance by 30 times. #science #engineering

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Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost
MIT engineers developed artificial tendons that could connect robotic skeletons and biological muscle tissue. Made from tough and flexible hydrogel, the tendons could be used in various bio-hybrid robots.
news.mit.edu
December 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🧬🦠 Ever wonder why your body makes mucus? This slimy substance is actually a sophisticated defense system that traps bacteria and prevents infections that antibiotics can't eliminate. Plus, how to make your own at home! #biology #science

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A spoon holds translucent, stretchy yellow mucus-like substance that forms long strands as it drips
December 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🍪🎨 Turn simple round #cookies into nostalgic works of #art with royal icing techniques. The Graceful Baker demonstrates crackle effects, wet-on-wet patterns, and intricate linework to recreate vintage glass ornaments from Grandma's Christmas tree.

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Round sugar cookies decorated as vintage Christmas ornaments with royal icing in red, green, pink, and turquoise colors, featuring patterns like holly berries, chevrons, stripes, and snowflake designs with silver ornament caps.
December 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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🧬🦠 Ever wonder why your body makes mucus? This slimy substance is actually a sophisticated defense system that traps bacteria and prevents infections that antibiotics can't eliminate. Plus, how to make your own at home! #biology #science

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A spoon holds translucent, stretchy yellow mucus-like substance that forms long strands as it drips
December 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Find 🥁⚡️🐛🦇🧱🏗️🏰 and more gift ideas in the TKSSTGiftGuide.com.
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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🧠📈 Neuroscientists identified four major #brain turning points by analyzing 3,802 people ages 0-90 using MRI scans: age 9 , 32, 66, and 83. #neuroscience

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Your brain changes at 9, 32, 66, and 83
Brain scans of 3,802 people show how the brain’s structure changes at four major turning points.
www.popsci.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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👅🔬 Scientists are debating whether "oleogustus" (fatty taste) should become the sixth basic taste alongside sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami. #science #food

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Making the case for a sixth basic taste
Could “fatty” or “starchy” one day become accepted as the sixth basic taste alongside the likes of sweet and salty?
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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🐨🦁 Researchers at the University of Manchester used preserved collagen proteins in fossil bones to reveal that #koalas are the closest living relatives of Thylacoleo carnifex, an extinct marsupial lion with the strongest bite of any known mammal. #wildlife

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Cuddly koalas had a brutal, blade-toothed close cousin
Ancient collagen preserved in the bones of extinct Australian mammals is revealing their evolutionary relationships, leading to some surprises.
www.sciencenews.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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🦖🍽️ The asteroid that killed dinosaurs 66 million years ago transformed Earth's forests from open canopy to dense rainforests, creating new ecological niches where many of today's food crops first evolved. #thanksgiving #science

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Without dinosaurs, there'd be no Thanksgiving dinner
The evolution of today's beloved side dishes took off 66 million years ago.
www.popsci.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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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

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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.
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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
www.nasa.gov
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

👉 www.popularmechanics.com/sci...
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