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  🐒 NEW: Indri #lemurs, #Madagascar’s only #singing #primates, open their mouths wider to hit higher pitches, a vocal technique that parallels human #opera singers. Motion-tracking analysis of #video recordings showed that mouth openings track pitch changes, helping calls carry across dense #rainforest for social bonding and territorial warnings. 👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/lemurs-opera-singers-share-vocal-technique/ #animals #vocalization #evolution #research #biology #sound #science...

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  🦫 ICYMI: In West #London, the reintroduction of #beavers to an #urban #wetland helped halt chronic #flooding at a local tube station. Led by the #Ealing Beaver Project in #ParadiseFields, the #animals build natural #water defenses that replace the need for costly council #engineering works. 👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/ealing-beaver-project-success-video #biodiversity #biology #city #civics #climatechange #climate #community #ecosystem #england #uk #hydrology #nature #rain #science #...

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  🐟 NEW: Recent long-term tracking #research indicates that lake #sturgeon in the #GreatLakes may reach ages exceeding 400 years. By using capture-mark-recapture #data across decades, fishery biologists updated growth rate models for these #ancient cartilaginous #fish, showing lifespans nearly three times longer than previous estimates and rivaling some of the longest-living #vertebrates on Earth. 👉 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/some-fish-in-the-great-lakes-might-be-more-than-400...

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  🌊 NEW: Engineers on an #island in #India’s #Lakshadweep #archipelago are building an #ocean thermal #energy conversion plant to harness temperature gradients between warm surface #water and cold deep #sea water. The facility aims to generate #electricity and produce fresh drinking water around the clock, offering a sustainable alternative to costly imported #diesel for remote regions. 👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/ocean-thermal-conversion-india/ #renewableenergy #sustainab...

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  🦜 NEW: Behavioral biologist Jorg Massen gave 17 Galah #Cockatoos a daily choice to fly free. The #birds almost always flew, then foraged and raised their crests more. They also showed greater #optimism about finding #walnuts after #flying. Massen sees #flight as an ethological need, tying the #research to #animal welfare that enables their natural behaviors. 👉 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-birds-enjoy-flying-scientists-asked-cockatoos/ #parrots #animals #behavior #animalwelfar...

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  🐝 NEW: University of #Melbourne researchers logged more than 5,000 bee-flower interactions to map where five native bee species live across the city and which indigenous #plants feed them. Since #nativebees travel only about 100 meters from their nests, connected backyard #gardens can work like a bee highway linking parks and green spaces. 👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-09-vital-native-bee-highway-backyard.html #pollinators #biodiversity #gardening #wildlife #insects #entomology #bees #plants #...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: A team of scientists engineered an electrospun purple #fabric that reflects about 88% of sunlight and stays cooler than white #cotton in outdoor tests. In direct #sun, it ran up to 6º C (11º F) cooler than dyed purple cotton, and on simulated skin it beat uncovered skin by nearly 8º C. The lightweight #textile also kept its cooling effect after 50 wash cycles and showed strong durability under #UV exposure. 👉 https://interestingengineering.com/science/purple-fabric-reflects-sunlight-sta...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 📱🧠 An eight-year Finnish #study followed 260 #children to see how physical activity and #screentime related to later cognitive processing. More screen time correlated with better #teen cognitive performance, tied to the type of screen use rather than duration. Physical activity benefits also differed by gender, with light activity helping working #memory in #girls. 👉 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260815064803.htm #development #cognition #kids #science #research #educati...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: Researchers in #Brazil reconstructed 3.3 million years of #tropical #vegetation #history and projected changes by 2050. They found that #climatechange could produce #ecosystem shifts within decades that took millions of years to unfold naturally. Species that evolved in stable tropical refuges, including much of the Malay #Archipelago, face the highest risk from this compression of change over time. 👉 https://theconversation.com/impact-of-climate-change-may-be-equivalent-to-3-3-million-...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: ⚡🧲 #Cambridge #math professor Hannah Fry demonstrates how to build a simple electric #motor using a #battery, #copper wire, #magnets, and paper clips. Winding wire into a coil creates an electromagnet that repels and attracts the magnet beneath, forcing the coil to spin. 👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/how-to-make-an-electric-motor-video #activities #diy #electricity #howto #metal #physics #science #technology #tech #magnetism #engineering #diy #experiment #electromagnets #tksst...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌍🧭 Researchers at the University of #Barcelona built a free web tool that converts current #fossil coordinates to where those locations sat millions of years ago. It runs five global plate tectonic models simultaneously and shows automated results nearly identical to desktop #software, with an average spatial error under 17 meters. 👉 https://scitechdaily.com/where-on-earth-was-this-fossil-200-million-years-ago/ #paleontology #platetectonics #paleogeography #universityofbarcelona #geolo...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: 🪵🎵 Japanese artist Ayumi Tsuchiya creates interactive wooden #sculptures that function as playground #toys, musical #instruments, and hands-on #engineering lessons. Using #gravity, #gears, balance, and #timber, her analog #designs invite people to touch, move, and listen without relying on screens or #software. 👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/musical-gear-wonderlands-interactive-wooden-sculptures-by-ayumi-tsuchiya #art #chair #installation #japan #kids #kinetics #levers #machines...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🧠🥩 A new #math model explains why #cannibalism keeps appearing and then disappearing across human #history. The #model shows that while eating human #meat provides calories, the epidemiological costs of disease transmission quickly outweigh any benefits and lead to #community collapse. 👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/mathematics-reveals-why-human-cannibalism-keeps-reappearing #humans #anthropology #epidemiology #evolution #prions #pathogens #culture #science #biology

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  💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🍄🪨 Researchers at the University of #Michigan pulled #water from gas wells deep under the #GreatLakes and found a dense #ecosystem. The water has remained #underground since the #IceAge more than 11,000 years ago. The isolated #environment contains hundreds of fungal species alongside tiny #worms and #tardigrades. 👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/rock-eating-fungi-great-lakes/ #fungi #microrganisms #ecology #science #groundwater #biodiversity #carbon #carboncycle #soil #biology #extrem...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🫶➕ A mathematician at the University of #Lyon has adapted ecological models to map romantic #relationships, using #predator-#prey equations and the Allee effect. The model identifies a critical threshold below which relationships decline toward separation, factoring in attraction, forgetting rates, and partner responsiveness. Future #AI versions could warn couples before they hit a danger zone. 👉 https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-say-love-follows-mathematical-patterns/ #math #mathema...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🕳️🔥 A Soviet drilling accident in 1971 collapsed a #gas cavern in #Turkmenistan, creating a 70-meter #crater engineers set on fire expecting it to burn out in weeks. It burned for over 50 years until the #government ordered wells drilled to capture the #methane, and satellite #data confirms the flames have dropped by more than 75% since 2022. 👉 https://boingboing.net/2026/07/23/darvaza-gates-of-hell.html?fk_bb #darvaza #geology #earth #science #naturalgas #climate #desert #robots #engin...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 📜🧑‍🌾 An animated short #film dispels common #myths about women in the #MiddleAges. Beyond working fields and running shops, #medieval women managed large estates and governed land as nuns while contributing to #science, #politics, and trades. 👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/illuminated-lives-a-brief-history-of-womens-work-in-the-middle-ages #animation #art #arthistory #culture #europe #farming #food #history #illustration #medicine #nationalfilmboardofcanada #religion #textiles #w...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦀🐌 #Marine biologist Sarah McAnulty joins #Elmo and friends for a hands-on show-and-tell featuring living #crabs, #snails, giant #shells, and #shark jaws. She shares what her job involves and explains why many #ocean #animals are covered in protective #mucus. 👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/marine-biologist-with-elmo-sesame-street #animals #biology #horseshoecrabs #jobs #kids #marinebiology #puppets #science #sesamestreet #teeth #womeninstem #work #underwater #tksst #video

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  💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🏛️⛰️ Archaeologists Jonathan Till and Nate Thomas take a tour of protected archaeological sites across #Utah's #BearsEars National Monument. Historic co-management by five #NativeAmerican Tribes preserves ancestral homelands and #ecosystems, including rock engravings at #NewspaperRock that span thousands of years. 👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/bears-ears-national-monument-archaeology-video #americanhistory #history #archaeology #art #communication #conservation #culture #dr...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 📜🧑‍🌾 An animated short #film dispels common #myths about women in the #MiddleAges. Beyond working fields and running shops, #medieval women managed large estates and governed land as nuns while contributing to #science, #politics, and trades. 👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/illuminated-lives-a-brief-history-of-womens-work-in-the-middle-ages #animation #art #arthistory #culture #europe #farming #food #history #illustration #medicine #nationalfilmboardofcanada #religion #textiles #w...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌸🌿 #Utrecht University researchers studied drill cores from the #UK and Northwest #Europe to track #wildfires during the end-Triassic #extinction 201 million years ago. Using a new darkness index on #fossil pollen and a fern-to-fern #fire cycle, they found that #CO2-driven #warming collapsed #forests and let #ferns fuel intense repeated burns for up to 300,000 years. The ferns acted as both disaster colonizers and self-perpetuating wildfire fuel. 👉 https://www.uu.nl/en/news/triassic-inf...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐸🥚 In a high-elevation #Oregon #lake, hundreds of Western toad pairs lay over a million #eggs together. The hatching #tadpoles form massive #underwater schools that snake along the shore before growing legs and moving onto land. The #amphibians connect local food webs by transferring #energy to larger #predators. 👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/western-toads-lifecycle-tadpoles-oregon-lake-high-cascades-opb #animals #babies #biology #ecology #ecosystem #forest #larvae #lifecycle...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: ✍️🧠 A new study challenges the idea that people are born with a skilled dominant hand, showing instead that hand dominance develops through repeated practice. Researchers at Johns Hopkins and UCLA found that when tasks are novel both hands perform equally well, and that hand preference comes first and skill follows, not the reverse. 👉 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/people-arent-born-with-as-righties-or-lefties-they-develop-hand-dominance-with-practice-a-new-study-suggests-1809...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🦇🧠 A 2021 study found #blind and sighted people can learn click #echolocation in just 10 weeks. Follow up scans by #Durham University researchers showed structural changes in the #brain’s visual cortex. A separate 2025 study examined how 30 million years of echolocation #evolution shaped dolphin and whale brains. 👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-can-echolocate-and-it-changes-the-wiring-of-the-brain #neuroplasticity #science #biology #humanbody #sound #adaptation #learning #neurosc...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🔥🫁 Wildfire smoke carries particles and #toxic #chemicals that travel deep into #lungs, enter the bloodstream, and affect the #heart, #brain, and developing fetuses. Researchers found that even moderate recurring #smoke exposure raises risks of #stroke, #cancer, and #autoimmune #disease. A #Stanford team projects 1.9 million excess deaths from #wildfire smoke in the #USA between 2026 and 2055. 👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/wildfire-smoke-can-attack-almost-every-part-of-your-body-not-j...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐒🧬 Biologist Fernanda Abra and Reconecta partnered with Waimiri Atroari Indigenous people and landowners in #AltaFloresta to install canopy #bridges over Brazilian #highways. The multilayered rope bridges have logged more than 15,000 #animal crossings with zero roadkill, used by #primates, #sloths, #opossums and other small #mammals. #Brazil´s #transport agency has now adopted the #design as a national standard for highways. 👉 https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/zero-roadkill-as-amazon-ca...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐵🔺 Researchers at #CarnegieMellon tested geometric shape matching in #monkeys, #children, and #adults with little formal schooling. Both monkeys and preschoolers relied on intuitive reasoning, while educated adults used symbolic tools. The results suggest geometric intuition is shared across #primates and refined through #learning. 👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/monkeys-have-geometric-skills-on-par-with-human-preschoolers-study-suggests #primates #geometry #cognition #science #math #ed...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: ☄️🌍 A mapping project shared at the University of #Padua shows when and where billions of people can see #asteroid #Apophis during its safe 2029 flyby. Scientists calculated that the #space rock will be bright enough for naked eye viewing across #Europe, #Africa, and #Asia, and it will pass closer to our #planet than many #weather #satellites. 👉 https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/shared-cosmic-experience-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-apophis-could-be-visible-to-90-percent-of-ea...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🌳🪨 A large-scale field #experiment in #Wales shows that adding crushed volcanic #basalt rock dust to #soil accelerates native woodland growth. The #nature-based method boosted #carbon capture by up to 27% in the first four years, providing an urgent tool for global #climate restoration efforts. 👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/how-does-magic-basalt-dust-help-plants-grow-faster-and-lock-up-more-carbon #biology #calcium #chemistry #climatechange #conservation #ecology #forest #iro...

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  💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐘🦻 #Elephants can hear messages sent through ground vibrations from more than 10 km away using bone conduction. A #study found that elephants’ larger middle ear bones transmit low-frequency vibrations to the cochlea more effectively than human #ears. A special #muscle may also let elephants voluntarily close their ear canals, potentially boosting sensitivity to infrasonic #sounds by up to 30 times. 👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/elephants-may-hear-messages-through-gro...