China has built or is building dozens of satellite factories with a combined theoretical output of over 7,000 spacecraft per year, yet launched just several hundred satellites in 2025 — a gap that defines both the ambition and the bottleneck of the country’s commercial space buildout. The figures come from a survey by Chinese space […]

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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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Research suggests these rare, intensely bright explosions known as luminous fast blue optical transients may originate when a neutron star or black hole collides with a massive Wolf-Rayet star after being flung out of its birthplace by a supernova kick. Recent analysis examined multiple LFBOT events and found they consistently occur in star-forming galaxies, but […]

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China is rapidly building a broad, diverse satellite manufacturing base capable of producing thousands of spacecraft annually, but faces bottlenecks in launch and uncertain demand.

Palestinian schoolchildren in the occupied West Bank village of Umm al-Khair held lessons on rocks beside a barbed wire fence this week, turning a settler-built barrier into the backdrop of what organizers called the ‘Umm al-Khair Freedom School.’ The protest followed reports that students were cut off from their classrooms by a fence Israeli authorities […]

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Mercury’s magmas may not play by Earth’s rules. Laboratory work suggests that the innermost planet’s sulfur-rich, iron-poor chemistry could fundamentally alter how molten rock crystallizes, meaning planetary scientists cannot safely borrow terrestrial assumptions when reconstructing how Mercury’s mantle solidified. Research using the Indarch meteorite, an enstatite chondrite, as a stand-in for Mercury’s building blocks has […]

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X-ray light from a cluster of more than a thousand galaxies has just forced astrophysicists to rewrite a central chapter in the story of how the universe builds its elements. Studies of data from Japan’s Hitomi telescope have found that the standard theoretical models describing what massive stars forge in their dying moments may be […]

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Cosmic imagery triggers the same nervous-system response in everyone, but only some people experience it as relief. The psychology of awe suggests those who find the Pillars of Creation comforting are doing work most of us spend our lives avoiding.

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The loudest person in every room is often the one nobody has ever thought to rescue, and there's a specific psychological machinery that explains why.

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Across psychology research, the willingness to ask simple questions and admit uncertainty is one of the strongest markers of genuine expertise — and one of the most socially costly traits to display.

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