Self-efficacy, the belief that you can accomplish a specific task, consistently outperforms actual ability as a predictor of who will try, persist, and succeed. That single psychological finding explains much of what we call ambition.

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In this episode of the Space Minds podcast, SpaceNews’ Mike Gruss interviews Heather Pringle, a retired Major General of the US Air Force who is now the CEO of the […]

he Pentagon is no longer asking whether commercial space will matter in future conflicts.

The Japan-Australia defense partnership that took another step forward in Tokyo in early April is not merely a deepening friendship between two U.S. allies. It is the most advanced example of a new model emerging in the Indo-Pacific: middle powers building autonomous defense industrial linkages designed to function even if the United States is stretched […]

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Real-time mood tracking by Yale researchers is revealing that social media use precedes emotional deterioration in teenagers, not the other way around, while Meta's own buried research shows parental controls don't curb compulsive use.

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Preparing to send astronauts back to the moon is no small feat.

Israeli air strikes killed at least seven people in the southern Lebanese town of Abbassiyeh on Thursday, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency, as fighting intensified barely a day after a US-Iran ceasefire was supposed to halt hostilities across the region. The strikes were not an accident or an oversight. They reveal a ceasefire deliberately […]

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The companies will compete for contracts to build ‘neighborhood watch’ satellites

Adults who abandon their hobbies don't just lose a pleasant distraction — they lose access to flow states, temporal landmarks, and the only space in their lives where they existed outside their obligations, with measurable consequences for identity and mental health.

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