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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed "Mary Anning" after a 19th century English paleontologist. This was the site of the chemical experiment uncovering diverse organic molecules on Mars, in the Glen Torridon region, which scientists believe was a site where ancient conditions would have been favorable to supporting life, if it ever was present.

Curiosity rover finds signs of ancient life on Mars

Anker charging gear on sale at Amazon for Spring

Anker’s Prime 3-in-1 MagSafe charger deserves a spot on your nightstand and it’s $80 off at Amazon

By Stan Horaczek

$Math equations covering a chalkboard$

Can you best a math Olympiad? Test your skills with the world’s largest database of problems.

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Y’all versus yinz: Accents may say more about who we are than where we’re from

Illustration of ancient tubular polyps on the ocean floor

450-million year old jellyfish ancestor looks like a flailing carwash tubeman

a parrot with green feathers and a missing top beak

Bruce is missing his upper beak, but it has not stopped him from dominance

By Laura Baisas

Crimson (left) was rescued shortly after Clover(right).

Two mountain lion cubs rescued from certain death

By Margherita Bassi

the earth is setting behind the moon

New Artemis II astronaut iPhone video reveals new Earthset view

By Laura Baisas

white flowering tree in front of apartment building

Why spring smells like semen and rotting fish

tiger amongst mangroves

8 cool images from the Mangrove Photography Awards

By Popular Science Team

an illustration of an extinct hedgehog like animal

New megafauna looked like spiky, 30-pound hamster

By Margherita Bassi

Freshly baked homemade brownies on a parchment paper. There's some sprigs of mint and a gold-colored fork resting on the left side.

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The best brownie recipe, according to science

By Clarissa Brincat

woman wiht '21 grams'

One man’s obsessive quest to weigh the human soul

By Popular Science Team

There’s a helpful translation tool hidden in your iPhone Messages

a man dries a gray playstation console with a blue towel

Tinkerer transforms a filthy 1990s PlayStation into the ‘ultimate PS1’

By Mack DeGeurin

a bright red bird with a long beak

Hawaiian forest birds are stealing each other’s twigs

By Margherita Bassi

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Stop asking AI for life advice

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REI has more than 50 hiking pags, backpacks, and travel bags on sale for clearance prices right now

By Sarah Horaczek

Hand holds vintage photograph of young boy riding a plastic toy horse with pile of old photos in background.

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Why don’t we remember being babies?

By Popular Science Team

Close up of woman holding EpiPen Launcher

Woman builds EpiPen cannon, because why not?