Science and Technology
- 170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877
- Lunar maria, large, dark basaltic plains on Earth's Moon
- Maria (reachability analyzer), a reachability analyzer, used in computer science for concurrent systems
- Maria reactor, a nuclear research reactor in Poland
- Maria (storage engine), a storage engine for MySQL (renamed Aria in 2010)
- MariaDB, a community-developed branch of the MySQL database
- Tropical Storm Maria (disambiguation), one of several named storms
- MARIA XML, a model-based XML language for User Interfaces
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