Monday, March 10th
Featured today:
🦅 Celebrity bald eagles welcome three new eaglets 🏎️ Robot-driven Maserati sets new world record
🧠 The rabbit study that unraveled how memory works
✒️ Last week's top story: Where does tattoo ink go in your body? There’s one particular spot.
📩 Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe here to join our community of 260K+ science and technology enthusiasts
Patently Amazing 🏆
The forgotten story of the woman who invented the dishwasher, 140 years ago
Frustrated by chipped dishes, Josephine Cochrane vowed, “If nobody else is going to invent a dishwashing machine, I’ll do it myself.” So she did.
Ask Us Anything ✔️
SP asks: How do prescription drugs get their names?
Drug names can seem nonsensical. But behind the scenes, manufacturers and regulators pore over every letter with a fine-tooth comb.
How prescription drugs get their names
For decades, we've answered readers’ most outlandish questions. Now we want to hear from you. What do you want to know? Ask us anything here.
Quiz ✏️
For how long have plants and fungi lived and worked alongside each other?
🍄 250 million years
🍄 400 million years
🍄 500 million years
🍄 750 million years
Find out the answer at the bottom of this newsletter. ⬇️
Five Things 🖖
Jackie and Shadow's third eaglet has landed
After years of no chicks, the famed bald eagles welcomed three hatchlings.
Robot-driven Maserati MC20 sets new world speed record
The AI-backed supercar reached nearly 200 miles per hour.
ICYMI: Oldest known stars in the universe found in Milky Way’s ‘halo’
They're up to 13 billion years old.
From Knowable Magazine: Unraveling the mystery of memory, a half-century after a fateful rabbit study
This is the story of a turning point in the study of learning and memory.
Life Hack: How to add keyboard shortcuts to your Mac
You don’t need any complex software or third-party apps.
Around the Web 🌐
🌲 Gaze upon the world's smallest park
📱 The home screen trick to break your phone addiction
📽️ Watch: Incredible footage of spacecraft landing on the moon
👀 What scientists learned from keeping people's eyes open while they slept
We're open to feedback. Reach out here.
Become a partner and reach hundreds of thousands of inquisitive readers.
Contact us here.
Quiz Answer 📝
For how long have plants and fungi worked alongside each other?
In exchange for food, fungi help their hosts get water and fight pathogens.
It's a relationship so symbiotic one might help the other from going extinct.
👋 Today's newsletter was produced by Cole Paxton
Was this newsletter hard to read? View it in a browser
Thank you for being part of a community of 260,000+ science and technology enthusiasts
Let us know how we're doing.
👉 feedback@popsci.com
FOLLOW US:
COPYRIGHT © 2025 RECURRENT VENTURES INC, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
701 BRICKELL AVE, SUITE 1550, MIAMI, FLORIDA 33131
PRIVACY POLICY + MANAGE PREFERENCES
