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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Just like Earth, our cosmic neighbor Mars sometimes has auroras dance across its night sky. In March 2024, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover imaged visible-light auroras for the first time during a major solar flare and coronal mass ejection. That exciting discovery confirmed that future astronauts on Mars could see (and feel) the impacts of the aurora and opened up some exciting new research possibilities.   Scientists now believe that they have the tools to predict an aurora’s green glow in the night sky above Mars. Today in…

Dior opened its first U.S. spa in New York City, just above its Madison Avenue flagship store.The spa uses high-tech diagnostics to customize treatments to each guest’s needs.One of its most unique offerings includes the Happiness treatment, a light therapy session that’s exclusive to Dior Spa’s NYC location. Wellness lovers, rejoice. In Aug. 2025, fashion and beauty giant Dior opened its first spa in the U.S. in New York City. Known as Dior Spa New York, the newly opened luxury oasis can be found on the top floor of the House of Dior flagship store on Madison Avenue and 57th…

Charlie Kirk was one of the most high-profile conservative activists and media personalities in the US and a trusted ally of President Donald Trump.Kirk, 31, who died Wednesday in a shooting at a Utah college, was known for holding open-air debates on campuses across the country. In 2012, at the age of 18, he co-founded Turning Point USA (TPUSA), a student organisation that aims to spread conservative ideals at liberal-leaning US colleges.His social media and eponymous daily podcast often shared clips of him debating with students about issues such as transgender identity, climate change, faith and family values.The son of…

Anthony Rizzo prepares to hug Kris Bryant after the Cubs defeated Cleveland to win the 2016 World Series, the team’s first World Series win in 108 years. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)Getty Images Anthony Rizzo, most recently the first baseman for the New York Yankees, announced his retirement on Wednesday, which Major League Baseball reported via social media. Rizzo, who was a key cog in the 2016 billy-goat-curse-breaking Chicago Cubs World Series title, who caught the final out of Game 7 of that World Series, will retire as a member of the Cubs. He will be at Wrigley Field on…

Charlie Kirk, the prominent right-wing activist and podcast host, was fatally shot while speaking at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. He was 31.Originally from the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, Kirk went on to become one of the most polarizing figures of his generation. In 2012, when Kirk was just 18, he cofounded the influential conservative youth organizing group Turning Point USA. Kirk specialized in digital and grassroots organizing, harnessing social media to reach young voters. He eventually became a key ally and advisor to President Donald Trump.Trump announced Kirk’s passing on Truth Social Wednesday afternoon. “The Great, and even Legendary,…

Not everything needs a sequel or reboot. At least that’s what Kirsten Dunst thinks when it comes to the cult classic film, Bring It On. The high school cheerleading movie recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. Now, when it’s common to bring back TV shows and movies, and there’s been recent reboots and followups like Freakier Friday, Gossip Girl, I Know What You Did Last Summer and Snow White, to name a few, Dunst told Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday that she wasn’t interested in rebooting the franchise. When Dunst was asked if we were getting close to seeing a sequel in…

In his first public comments about the Los Angeles Clippers’ alleged salary-cap circumvention involving star forward Kawhi Leonard and so-called “green bank” Aspiration, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Wednesday that he and the league must “let the investigation run its course.” He also said that, if the investigation finds that cap circumvention did occur, he would have the ability to impose significant punishments.”My powers are very broad,” Silver said. “I have a full range of financial penalties, drat picks, suspensions, et cetera. I have very broad powers in these situations.”Before last Wednesday, when “Pablo Torre Finds Out” reported that Leonard had…

“The metal tiles … didn’t work so well,” he said. “They oxidized extremely nice in the high oxygen environment. So, that nice orange color, kind of like a [space] shuttle external tank color, maybe paying homage to the shuttle program, was created by those three little metal tiles up on top.”Gerstenmaier has a talent for explaining complex technical concepts in a digestible manner. He began his career as an aerospace engineer working on the space shuttle program at NASA in 1977. He rose through the ranks at NASA to become head of all of the agency’s human spaceflight programs, then…

France is set to come to a standstill this week as workers take to the streets for a strike protesting against austerity measures. This comes after Prime Minister François Bayrou’s government collapsed on Monday, following his intentions to slash France’s multi-billion-euro deficit by cutting two public holidays, freezing pensions, and implementing other austerity measures. In reaction, French workers, who feel like the measures would disproportionately affect the country’s lower and middle classes, are taking to the streets in protest.When are the strikes taking place, and how long will they last?The strikes protesting austerity measures came into effect on Wednesday, September…

An old fake video is going viral again: in early September, a number of English-speaking accounts shared an old clip allegedly showing “Muslim” terrorists threatening to burn down churches in France, including Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral. The FRANCE 24 Observers team showed in late January that the clip had been entirely fabricated.