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• Amazon has rare deals on Kiehl’s skincare right now, with most products 25% off

  30-10-2026 22:22 via Popular Science
  
  If you saw me, you wouldn’t think I’m into skincare. That’s exactly why I have gotten into skincare. I have really enjoyed the Kiehl’s products I bought over the summer, but they certainly aren’t cheap. That’s why I’m personally jumping on these 25-percent discounts currently happening on Amazon. This stuff doesn’t get discounts very often, so if you’re a regular user, it’s a great time to stock up. Winter is coming and your face will thank you during the dry season.Editor’
  
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• Psychedelic nasal spray treats depression with toad-inspired goo

  30-10-2026 20:45 via Popular Science
  
  A powerful psychedelic compound best associated with the Sonoran desert toad (Incilius alvarius) has been recreated in a lab and transformed into a fast-acting nasal spray. A recent clinical trial outlined this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) suggests this spray could help people with treatment resistant depression, without the often less pleasant element of psychedelics. In the study, a single squeeze of the spray eased patients’ depressive symptoms with benefit
  
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• Send your name to Saturn’s largest moon

  30-10-2026 19:34 via Popular Science
  
  NASA is still on track to send its Dragonfly rotocraft to Saturn’s moon Titan by the end of the decade, and you can come along for the ride. Well, you can at least add your initials to the flight roster.As part of its Journey to Titan campaign, NASA has opened an online registry that will be included on a microchip aboard the spacecraft when it launches. The launch is currently scheduled for no earlier than July 2028. Signees will receive a personalized digital “boarding pass,” as proof th
  
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• In 1841, flesh and blood rained down in Tennessee

  30-10-2026 18:53 via Popular Science
  
  One August day in 1841, near Lebanon, Tennessee, two enslaved people heard the sound of rain pattering on the tobacco leaves around them. But this was no ordinary rain: It was a deep red color. The sky, it seemed, was raining blood. Even more alarming, small pieces of flesh and fat seemed to be raining down, too. The two witnesses took the leaves inside to show their enslaver, Mr. E.M. Chandler, who quickly reported the event to his neighbors. In an attempt to clear things up, pieces of fallen
  
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• World’s tallest Day of the Dead sculpture erected in Mexico City

  30-10-2026 17:30 via Popular Science
  
  Mexico City has broken a Guinness World Record during its preparations for this year’s Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) celebrations. At nearly 110 feet tall, the colorful sculpture of a female skeleton currently standing in the capital city’s town square (the Zócalo) is officially the world’s tallest La Catrina monument. The roughly 11-story project made from steel and fiberglass required about 140 people to assemble, and overshadows the town of Puerto Vallarta’s 92.3-foot Catrina
  
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• Male black bear ‘Nugget’ wins Introvert Award for his adorable hiding technique

  30-10-2026 16:48 via Popular Science
  
  Like the patient Paul, a male black bear (Ursus americanus) named Nugget would rather hang back alone than jump right into the salmon fest. For his solo tendencies, the team at Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska have awarded Nugget the 2026 Introvert Award.“For much of the season, Nugget could be seen wedged between rocks by lower falls,” the U.S. Forest Service team writes. “If you saw a furry, black head with glassy eyes poking out of a crack—that’s Nugget! You could also
  
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• Seven young condors released in northern California

  30-10-2026 16:12 via Popular Science
  
  In 1986, there wasn’t a single California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) left in the wild. Thankfully, it wasn’t because the birds of prey had gone extinct, but they were getting close. In the 1980s, there were fewer than two dozen condors remaining in the wild. That’s why the United States Fish and Wildlife Service moved them into a captive breeding and release program. Now, the Northern California Condor Restoration Program has released seven young condors into the wild in Yurok Count
  
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• World War II’s baby gas masks are as unnerving as you’d imagine

  30-10-2026 14:54 via Popular Science
  
  Time forgets the vast majority of inventions—usually for good reason. As parents and children everywhere get ready for trick-or-treating, we’d like to turn your attention to one such invention: the baby gas mask. In the November 1938 issue of Popular Science, “a doll demonstrates the use of the baby gas mask” in an undeniably creepy image. The word mask is perhaps a misnomer here, because this contraption actually completely engulfs the baby as “filtered air is pumped in with an artif
  
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• Why your favorite candy tastes different now

  30-10-2026 14:03 via Popular Science
  
  It’s candy—I mean, Halloween—season. But, I mean, let’s be real: The two are kind of interchangeable at this point. But have you ever bitten into your favorite candy bar only to think, “This really doesn’t taste the way it used to?” Well, it turns out, you might be onto something. Candy companies really do sneakily change their recipes. Our taste buds also change as we get older. So what’s really going on here? Are candy companies changing their recipes or do we just taste thing
  
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• Are We in an A.I. Bubble? We’re About to Find Out.

  30-10-2026 11:00 via NYT > Science and Technology
  “This is the first pure-play L.L.M. company to go public, to open its books so we can actually look at the underlying business of this A.I. boom.”
  
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