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The people who can sit through a long...
The capacity to sit in a quiet car without panicking is rarely a personality trait — it's a nervous ...
Psychology says people who never ask for favors...
The reluctance to ask for a favor isn't a personality trait. It's a forecast made by someone who lea...
A startup nobody had heard of four years...
Mark this one as the moment orbital defense became its own asset class. On April 28, Colorado-based ...
It would take 177 years to drive to...
There’s a moment that hits me pretty often when I’m out riding my bike through Saigon at night. I’ll...
Psychology says the extrovert who married a quiet...
The conventional wisdom about extroverts marrying introverts is wrong, and what's actually happening...
Psychology says people who keep their gas tank...
The half-tank rule looks like prudence from the outside. From the inside, it is often a small daily ...
Nobody prepares introverts for the loneliness of being...
The loneliness of being chronically misread isn't a phase introverts grow out of — it's a slow accum...
NASA flew a four-pound helicopter on Mars. The...
For seventy years, every spacecraft NASA sent to another world either landed in one place and stayed...
Thinner than hair and stretchable like rubber, this...
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Psychology says the people who grew up reading...
I was a child who read everywhere. Under the covers with a torch when I was supposed to be asleep. A...
Lower middle class families taught their children to...
The cheapest entrée wasn't a preference. It was a survival rule passed down by parents who had alrea...
Space Foundation Premieres National Space Day Video May...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — April 28, 2026 — Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 19...
Pentagon budget affirms Space Force role tracking moving...
More than $8 billion is requested in 2027 to field space-based systems to track both ground and air...
The brutal reality of trying to build a...
Mars has been the answer for as long as humans have been able to look up at it. Domed cities. Brave ...
The 90-year-old who became the oldest person in...
Imagine being ninety years old, strapping into a rocket, and shooting yourself out of the atmosphere...
NASA fires up powerful lithium-fed thruster for trips...
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Astronauts call it the “overview effect” — but...
Picture this. You’re above Earth, strapped into the International Space Station. You glance out the ...
Psychology says people who reread the same five...
Returning to the same handful of books across the decades isn't nostalgia or rigidity. It's one of t...
Psychology says the mark of a genuinely intelligent...
The smartest person I knew in school was not the one who gave the fastest answers. He was a quiet ki...
Pluto has glaciers, an atmosphere, and probably an...
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union held a meeting in Prague and voted to demote Pluto. Ro...
I’m 41 and I drove past my old...
The empty front yards of my old neighborhood weren't really about kids — they were about a structura...
5 places in our own solar system where...
When people imagine where alien life might be, they tend to look outward. Exoplanets. Distant star s...
Psychology says people who keep their inbox at...
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People who maintain inbox zero are running a quiet defensive operation. The folder is...
EraDrive and Northrop Grumman collaborate on AI-enabled...
SAN FRANCISCO – Silicon Valley startup EraDrive is working with Northrop Grumman to enhance spacecr...
Nobody talks about why the boomer generation seems...
I have a close friend whose mother is in her late seventies. She grew up in rural Victoria in the 19...
Psychology says the people who can’t accept help...
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Some people cannot receive a kindness without flinching.
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AI is so power-hungry that Meta is now...
Mark Zuckerberg’s company just made one of the most unusual energy deals in tech history. On April 2...
25 years ago today, one man paid $20...
On April 28, 2001, a sixty-year-old American businessman climbed into a Russian Soyuz capsule on a l...
I’m 41 and I realized last weekend that...
A space policy analyst sits on his front steps for the first time in three decades and discovers tha...
The Governance Architecture on Trial: What Musk v....
Elon Musk is suing the company he helped found for $134 billion. He also happens to own its largest ...
The quiet truth about long marriages is that...
The dramatic betrayal that ends a long marriage is almost always the second one. The first happened ...
Forget the Strait of Hormuz. The Pentagon’s next...
When Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz earlier this year, energy markets twitched and gl...
Psychology says people who rehearse phone calls before...
What looks like phone anxiety is often something more specific: a learned vigilance about verbal evi...
I’m 41 and I caught myself analyzing why...
The habit of watching yourself grieve instead of grieving has a name, a history, and a cost that tak...
Children of the 1980s learned to read adult...
The hypervigilance kids of the 1980s developed at the kitchen table didn't fade when they became adu...
Children who grew up monitoring a parent’s mood...
The child who learned to read a parent's footsteps grows into an adult fluent in everyone's interior...