There’s a phenomenon astronauts often describe called the Overview Effect. It’s that radical shift in perspective you get when you see Earth from space. Borders disappear. The squabbles that consumed your attention down on the surface suddenly look ridiculous. You realize, in your bones rather than just your head, that we’re all on the same […]

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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope looked at a scene it first captured in 1997 in honour of 36th anniversary: a small portion of a star-forming region about 5000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, known as the Trifid Nebula. The image shows changes over incredibly short timescales and instills a sense of awe and wonder about our ever-changing Universe.

US naval forces boarded an Iranian-flagged container ship near the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, escalating tensions in the region and pushing fragile diplomatic efforts to the edge of collapse. The operation casts serious doubt on talks scheduled for Monday in Pakistan. President Donald Trump said the vessel had attempted to breach a US […]

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The loneliness of being surrounded by friends who would not notice your absence is not about friendship shortage — it is about the architecture of modern connection itself.

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The loneliness you feel at your mother's dinner table isn't about proximity — it's about the gap between who you've become and who the room still needs you to be.

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Myanmar’s military-installed government reportedly released ousted President Win Myint on Friday and reduced Aung San Suu Kyi’s prison sentence, part of a reported mass amnesty of over 4,000 prisoners timed to the Thingyan New Year holiday. The move was one of the first major acts of newly inaugurated President Min Aung Hlaing, the coup leader […]

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The reflex to apologize before contributing to a meeting you were invited to isn't politeness. It's a small tax people pay on their own presence, and the cost compounds in ways most don't notice until much later.

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Parker Solar Probe has become the first human-made object to fly through the Sun's corona and survive. Its data is rewriting half a century of stellar physics, from the origin of the solar wind to the coronal heating problem.

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