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🐗🐖 What happens to the left behind after a disaster? In , escaped domestic and wild are interbreeding at a rapid pace.

While they aren't "mutants," these hybrids are rewriting the local gene pool, inheriting the fast breeding cycles of their farm-raised ancestors to thrive in a landscape without humans.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/nuclear-hog-hybrid-japan/

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🚦🧊 The traffic lights on our streets and the refrigerators in our kitchens exist thanks to the work of inventors like Garrett Morgan and John Standard.

The Recorder looks at the history of American that highlights the Black innovators who designed the everyday tools we often take for granted.

👉 https://indianapolisrecorder.com/black-innovation-2026/

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🐉🐸 Nearly two millennia ago, Chinese inventor Zhang Heng designed a bronze vessel that dropped metal balls to signal distant . Modern researchers in have used replicas to prove this ancient was surprisingly accurate.

👉 https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/discover-the-worlds-first-earthquake-detector-invented-in-china-2000-years-ago.html

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🧠💪 Your isn't just a static organ – it's a dynamic system that "remodels" itself based on use. Just like lifting weights builds muscle, pushing your brain into the "discomfort zone" with unfamiliar tasks builds new neural connections that protect your cognitive as you age.

👉 https://theconversation.com/your-brain-can-be-trained-much-like-your-muscles-a-neurologist-explains-how-to-boost-your-brain-health-271331

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🤧🚫 Researchers at the University of locked -positive students in a room with healthy volunteers, expecting a total spread. Instead, zero people caught the .

The data suggests that simple air movement from a heater and dehumidifier diluted the virus clouds so effectively that even close contact wasn't enough to pass it on.

👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-tried-to-spread-the-flu-only-to-discover-something-unexpected

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🚲🧐 During the 1890s, the sudden popularity of led doctors to warn of fictitious ailments like "bicycle face" and "bicycle hand" to discourage independent .

This look at historical scares explains how new often triggers social and strange medical .

👉 https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/the-thing-that-transcends-time-is-the-escapism-of-the-bike-how-the-victorians-lost-their-minds-over-cycling-the-following-made-up-diseases-and-social-change

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🐿️👗 Tommy Tucker, rescued as a baby in D.C., became a national celebrity through owner Zaidee Bullis, who dressed him in custom outfits and took him on war bond tours.

The patriotic rodent had 30,000 fan club members, appeared on with FDR, and was carried as good luck by bomber crews overseas.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/famous-ww2-squirrel-tommy-tucker/

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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐿️🌳 Whimble the Becorn wanted to make friends but the rowdy weren't quite what he had in mind. Then he discovered something that changed everything...

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/whimble-and-the-birds-a-becorns-story?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=whimble-birds

Two orange baby birds with black eyes sit in their nest while Whimble, a small acorn-like character wearing a pointed cap, watches over them from a nearby tree branch.
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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐺📹 Researchers placed a camera in 's boreal along a small creek, unsure if would use the corridor.

Over a year later, they had captured 1,500 videos documenting not just the Half-Moon Pack's travels, but , , fishers, pine martens, and snowshoe hares all using the same forest pathway.

👉 Learn more: https://zurl.co/UuPNX

A dark-furred fisher stands upright on its hind legs in a boreal forest clearing surrounded by birch trees, fallen logs, and moss-covered ground.
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🐱👱‍♂️ A study of 31 found they use increased vocalizations when greeting male humans compared to female caregivers. The difference appears driven by gender differences in responsiveness to quiet signals like tail flicks and head rubs.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/cats-scream-louder-at-men-and-its-probably-the-mens-fault/

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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🍇🏡 From vine to jar, the Ramikhanov family in demonstrates traditional grape processing in their wordless Country Life Vlog. Watch as they wash, sort, and simmer their harvest , creating homemade jam and grape skin compote.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/grape-harvesting-grape-jam-country-life-vlog

A woman in a blue apron and polka-dot headscarf stands beside abundant grape clusters hanging from vines, displaying dark purple, golden-green, and reddish varieties ready for harvest.
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🐢🏠 biologist Maurice Rodrigues co-founded the Turtle Conservancy's sanctuary that cares for hundreds of illegally trafficked confiscated annually at JFK Airport.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/trafficked-turtles-new-jersey-sanctuary/

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🐛🍄 Scientists discovered that structures on female stinkbug legs previously thought to be hearing organs are actually specialized fungal cultivation chambers.

Female stinkbugs grow protective fungi in thousands of tiny pores on their hind legs, then carefully smear these onto their freshly laid eggs to create a living shield that prevents parasitic wasps from attacking their offspring.

👉 https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/some-stinkbugs-legs-carry-a-mobile-fungal-garden/

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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦌📚 Can wild be pets? Grammy-winning musician Billie Eilish reads Oliver Jeffers' picture book about a boy who finds a and decides to keep him as a pet, only to learn that wild have their own lives and choices.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/this-moose-belongs-to-me-by-oliver-jeffers-read-by-billie-eilish?utm_source=threads&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=moose_belongs_to_me

Split image showing a wooden moose toy with antlers next to a small figure from Oliver Jeffers' book illustration on the left, and Billie Eilish wearing a green beanie and black hoodie holding a film clapperboard labeled 'CBeebies Bedtime Stories' on the right.
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🪼🐟 photographer Pedro Valencia captured footage of two living inside a 's bell during a blackwater dive in , . Jellyfish scientist Scott Morrissey explains that this symbiotic relationship offers the fish protection from predators and access to , while the fish may serve as bait to attract prey for the jellyfish.

👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/fish-inside-jellyfish-mexico

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👩🏻‍💻🇬🇧 In 1842, Augusta Ada Lovelace of created the world's first computer algorithm for Charles Babbage's theoretical Analytical Engine, envisioning that could compose and create over a century before existed. Her work was forgotten until British scientist Bertram Bowden featured her contributions in his 1953 book about electronic computers, leading to renewed recognition of her pioneering role in programming.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/lovelace-day-ada-algorithm-rep/

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🦀💖 Researchers at CONICET discovered 40 potential new species including "Barbie " and sea during the first comprehensive exploration of Argentina's Mar del Plata Canyon using remotely operated vehicles. The expedition, which drew 1.6 million daily livestream viewers across , found reefs and diverse communities living 3,500 meters deep where two major currents meet.

👉 https://www.earth.com/news/barbie-crabs-sea-pigs-and-40-new-species-discovered-in-mar-del-plata-canyon/

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🌪️⚡ Ever wonder why turbines have exactly three blades? MinutePhysics breaks down the trade-offs between torque, drag, cost, and community acceptance that make three the sweet spot.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/why-do-wind-turbines-have-three-blades?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=wind_turbine_blades

Simple line drawings showing three wind turbine configurations: a single-blade turbine, a two-blade turbine, and a three-blade turbine, illustrating different blade count options in wind turbine design.
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🐦🧬 Biologists at The University of Texas at identified a rare hybrid "grue jay" in , born from a blue jay father and green jay mother whose ranges converged near due to .

The represents the first known vertebrate hybrid caused by both parent species expanding their ranges simultaneously, rather than human intervention, marking a 7-million-year evolutionary gap bridged by environmental shifts.

🔗 https://phys.org/news/2025-09-grue-jay-rare-hybrid-bird.html

👉 Learn more on : A Lot About Blue Jays with Lesley the Bird Nerd
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/blue-jays-lesley-birdnerd

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👋 Hello fediscience.org! I'm the News Editor for The Kid Should See This (TKSST for short), where we've been curating science videos for families and educators since 2011. We're looking forward to connecting with the research community whose work we love to share! 💞🤓🚀

👉 More about us: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/about

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