NASA could lose contact with the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station by the end of this decade. The satellites that keep those missions connected to the ground are dying, and the spacecraft themselves cannot be retrofitted with new radios. If the agency doesn’t secure a replacement communications system before its aging Tracking […]

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Cognitive dissonance theory has taught us for decades that people resolve contradictions by doubling down. New research suggests the opposite: most people simply edit the past. The ones who actually grow are those who can hold two contradictory truths about themselves without rushing to resolve either one.

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Midnight regret isn't analysis — it's a closed loop that degrades sleep and cognitive function. Research on forgiveness, cognitive control, and rumination reveals that the best sleepers aren't guilt-free; they've built systems that prevent regret from hijacking the transition to rest.

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Officials say the Space Development Agency’s ‘go fast’ model will live on under new portfolio-based organization

Service leaders warn workforce gaps and acquisition bottlenecks could slow delivery of new tech

The President, the Secretary of War, and the Chief of Space Operations are all saying it: We no longer have the luxury of time.

Netanyahu is escalating in Lebanon because it is the only front where he can claim a winnable victory for domestic political survival. That single fact explains more about the current campaign than any security briefing or diplomatic statement. With prolonged military operations across the region producing no decisive outcomes, Lebanon has become the stage where […]

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Several senators are asking appropriators to increase funding for NASA’s robotic Mars exploration efforts, fearing “severe and irreversible harm” if funding is not restored.

Sudan’s civil war has produced a economic catastrophe so severe that even an immediate peace deal cannot undo it: projected cumulative GDP losses of $18.8 billion stretching to 2043, with average incomes already thrown back to levels last seen in the early 1990s. A quarter century of economic progress, erased in three years. That projection, […]

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