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A part of a fossilized mammal skull, with sediment in a tooth socket that turned out to be a nest built by a prehistoric bee.

Ancient bees laid eggs inside bones

A 20,000 year old fossil uncovered in a tarantula-filled cave has paleontologists stunned.

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Last-minute holiday gift guide: 29 editor-approved gadgets for everyone on your list

Is someone on your list hard to shop for? We’ve got a ton of great options for just about anyone. And grab a little something for yourself. You earned it.

By Stan Horaczek, Tony Ware

Cricut machines on sale at Amazon

Amazon has Cricut machines, accessories, and supplies for their lowest prices of the year for a limited time

These are the lowest prices we have seen in months and they’ll arrive in time to work as holiday gifts.

By Stan Horaczek

This view of a region called Syrtis Major is from the 100,000th image captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its HiRISE camera. Over nearly 20 years, HiRISE has helped scientists understand how the Red Planet’s surface is constantly changing.

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snaps 100,000th image

A high school student suggested the steep sand dunes of Syrtis Major for the milestone image.

A salt grain-sized microrobot on a human finger to illustrate size

Dancing robot is the size of a grain of salt

The fully programmable, autonomous microbot only costs one penny to make.

A cross sectional image of an actively growing microbialite from South Africa.

‘Living rocks’ suck up a lot of carbon

Super tough microbialites are some of the oldest evidence of life on Earth.

By Laura Baisas

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An 1886 color illustration depicting a crowd of people, including men, women, and children, gathered around a massive wheel of cheese in the East Room of the White House. A man in a dark coat is carving into the cheese with a knife, while others eagerly reach out with their own knives and hands to take a piece. In the foreground, a small boy sits on the floor eating a piece of the cheese. This event commemorates the distribution of the "Mammoth Cheese" gifted to President Andrew Jackson in 1835.

Andrew Jackson’s White House once hosted a cheese feeding frenzy

The seventh president’s farewell party featured 1,400 pounds of cheddar. Things got messy.

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