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Anker’s Prime 3-in-1 MagSafe charger deserves a spot on your nightstand and it’s $80 off at Amazon
20 April 2026 @ 9:40 pm
Anker's Amazon sale cuts the Prime 3-in-1 Qi2.2 MagSafe station to $149.99, the 140W MacBook charger to $64.99, and the Prime 100W foldable GaN charger to $39.99.
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Can you best a math Olympiad? Test your skills with the world’s largest database of problems.
20 April 2026 @ 9:00 pm
MathNet contains 30,000 free math problems collected over half a century.
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Y’all versus yinz: Accents may say more about who we are than where we’re from
20 April 2026 @ 6:02 pm
There's more to our speech than meets the ear.
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450-million year old jellyfish ancestor looks like a flailing carwash tubeman
20 April 2026 @ 3:44 pm
‘Paleocanna tentaculum’ was more closely related to today’s marine invertebrates than its prehistoric relatives.
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Bruce is missing his upper beak, but it has not stopped him from dominance
20 April 2026 @ 3:00 pm
Inside the bird eat bird world of ‘beak jousting.’
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Two mountain lion cubs rescued from certain death
20 April 2026 @ 1:22 pm
Crimson and Clover are now on the road to recovery at Oakland Zoo in California.
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New Artemis II astronaut iPhone video reveals new Earthset view
20 April 2026 @ 12:34 pm
‘Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos.’
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Why spring smells like semen and rotting fish
19 April 2026 @ 7:04 pm
Blame the invasive Bradford pear tree.
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8 cool images from the Mangrove Photography Awards
19 April 2026 @ 5:16 pm
The 12th annual competition is now open for submissions.
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New megafauna looked like spiky, 30-pound hamster
19 April 2026 @ 2:07 pm
It took 120 years to figure out the forgotten fossil belonged to an extinct giant echidna.
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