A team of Japanese researchers has built an X-ray space telescope with remarkable precision, and they proved it works by launching it aboard a sounding rocket from Alaska in 2024. The telescope, developed through a collaboration between Nagoya University and Japan’s SPring-8 synchrotron radiation facility, flew aboard the FOXSI-4 sounding rocket in April 2024. It […]

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When a compliment contradicts the internal narrative someone built their identity around, the praise doesn't feel undeserved — it feels threatening. Understanding why requires looking at self-concept inertia, fixed mindsets, and the survival stories we mistake for permanent truth.

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New neuroimaging and field research reveal why the same night sky produces peace in some people and existential dread in others, and what that divergence tells us about how the brain processes insignificance, control, and the boundaries of self.

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COLORADO SPRINGS – Sophia Space will begin deploying edge compute nodes on Kepler Communications satellites in late 2026, under a strategic pact announced April 13.

The compulsion to preemptively explain yourself before anyone asks isn't a sign of insecurity — it's a survival strategy learned in childhood environments where silence was treated as evidence of guilt.

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A Nigerian military airstrike reportedly struck a crowded village market in Jilli, Yobe State, with reports suggesting more than 100 civilians were killed and dozens more wounded, according to Amnesty International and local officials. The strike, which reportedly occurred on Saturday near the border between Yobe and Borno states in Nigeria’s northeast, has drawn sharp […]

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Quick forgivers aren't morally superior — they've calculated the psychological, physiological, and relational costs of carrying resentment, and decided they can't afford the ongoing expense. Research on isolation crews and anger regulation shows why this is a skill, not a personality trait.

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Social psychology's warmth-competence framework reveals why we instinctively trust some people with our safety and others with our secrets — and why holding both authority and tenderness is so rare and so learnable.

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Rocket Lab has locked in three more Electron launches for Japanese radar satellite operator iQPS, extending a partnership that now spans 15 total missions. That number alone makes this one of the most significant customer relationships in the small launch industry. But the deal’s real significance is what it reveals about how small launch providers […]

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Boredom isn't the absence of stimulation — it's a signal pointing toward unmet needs. Isolation research shows that the people who medicate boredom with distraction fare worse than those who investigate what it's actually trying to say.

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