Stunning Mars Photos Show a Salty Landscape: Space Photos of the Week

NASA’s Curiosity rover touched down on Mars in August 2012, and it’s been cruising around, shooting lasers at rocks, drilling into the ground, and performing science experiments ever since. Just last week, news came out that Curiosity had found something salty. The rover is driving across Gale Crater, an ancient Martian lake bed that was…

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The On-Demand Economy Brings Us Something Useful: Nature

Last year, Adam Banzhoff was living in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, working an IT job at a bank and feeling morose. “I was in a downswing, a little bit of a depression,” he tells me. Then one day, on a whim, he signed up for Horti, a new subscription service that ships members a plant every month.…

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Be Master of the Midway—With Physics!

Come on. Some of those carnival games are just plain silly. There’s one (check out the video) with a bowling pin and a ball suspended from a string above it. You’re supposed to swing the ball around and hit the pin from behind. Spoiler alert: It can’t be done. This is a sucker game. How…

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6 Best Action Cameras for Your Dangerous Adventures (2019)

Choosing the right action camera used to be simple: Go with GoPro. It's still good advice. The GoPro ranks high on our list, and would be our top pick for most people. But finally, we've found a few worthy competitors.To figure out which camera is the best, we tried them all. We dove with them,…

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