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Strikes Near Bushehr: What the IAEA's Urgent Warnings Actually Mean for Nuclear Safety

A projectile reportedly struck near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant on Saturday, with reports indicating one security worker killed and at least five others injured. The strike, allegedly part of a broader wave of military operations against Iranian targets, has prompted international calls for military restraint around nuclear facilities. The IAEA confirmed that no increase […]

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How China's Chang'e program went from lunar orbiter to sample return in fifteen years and why its institutional model is reshaping the global space race

China's Chang'e program went from lunar orbiter to sample return in fifteen years and has now placed a base module at the south pole — a pace of execution that reveals as much about institutional design as it does about engineering capability.

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The Moon's Interior Isn't What We Thought: Blue Ghost Data Upends Fifty Years of Thermal Models

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander spent time on the lunar surface in early 2025, and the data it sent back may force scientists to redraw one of the oldest maps of the moon’s internal structure. Science results from a private spacecraft operating on the moon, reported at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in March […]

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The people who forgive quickly aren't naive. They've calculated the cost of resentment and decided they can't afford it anymore.

Quick forgivers aren't soft — they've done the math on resentment and decided the ongoing cost exceeds whatever satisfaction the anger provides. Research across 22 countries now backs up what they seem to intuit.

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The quiet cruelty of being the person everyone vents to but nobody checks on. Emotional utility is not the same as emotional intimacy.

Being the person everyone turns to in a crisis can feel like love, but emotional utility and emotional intimacy are fundamentally different experiences — and confusing the two carries a quiet, compounding cost.

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The full engineering history of Cassini's Grand Finale: how NASA deliberately crashed a $3.4 billion spacecraft into Saturn and why the decision took a decade to make

The decision to destroy Cassini wasn't made on impact day. It was the product of a decade of engineering trade studies, planetary protection ethics, and the recognition that responsible exploration means planning the ending with the same care as the beginning.

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European Space Companies Are Quietly Building America's Next Satellite Fleet

When Italy’s Argotec opened its first U.S. satellite production facility near Kennedy Space Center this April, it did not make front-page news. Neither did Belgium’s Aerospacelab when it inaugurated a factory in Torrance, California. But taken together, these moves — and the wave of European investment behind them — point to something the American space […]

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Regret doesn't peak when you fail. It peaks when you succeed at something you never actually chose.

Self-determination theory reveals why the deepest regret doesn't come from failure but from succeeding at goals you never authentically chose, and why midlife is when the gap between achievement and autonomy becomes impossible to ignore.

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Japan's $4.6 Billion Bet on TSMC's 3nm Chips Is Really a Bet on Alliance-Based Industrial Policy

TSMC’s decision to upgrade its second Kumamoto facility from mid-range chip production to cutting-edge 3nm technology is the clearest signal yet that semiconductor manufacturing is being reorganized around geopolitical alliances rather than market efficiency. The upgrade, confirmed through Taiwan’s Department of Investment Review, will give the Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM) plant a planned monthly […]

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