Nanoscale analysis of a sample from asteroid Bennu has revealed evidence that water did not permeate the body uniformly during its formation but instead may have flowed through restricted channels, creating sharply defined chemical neighborhoods that preserved fragile organic compounds in some zones while transforming others into mineral-rich domains. Research findings suggest this rewrites assumptions […]

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Grudges are commonly mistaken for stubbornness or anger, but psychological research suggests they function more like unprocessed grief for a version of a relationship that turned out to never exist.

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Post-achievement depression reveals a painful truth about identity: when your sense of self fuses with your effort, finishing something important can feel less like victory and more like losing the person you were while doing it.

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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman defended a fiscal year 2027 budget proposal that would cut the agency’s budget by nearly 25%.

A 28-day-old infant was reportedly bitten on the face by a rat while sleeping inside a displacement tent in Gaza City, an incident that captures the scale of a public health crisis spreading through camps where more than a million displaced Palestinians now shelter under canvas with almost no protection from vermin. The attack on […]

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Five weeks into a war that has killed thousands, shuttered one of the world’s most important shipping lanes, and drawn in nearly every major power in the Middle East, a former Iranian diplomat is arguing that the outlines of a peace deal already exist. Mohammad Javad Zarif, who served as Iran’s foreign minister during the […]

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The United States military reportedly pulled off a high-stakes combat rescue deep inside Iranian territory over the weekend, extracting the second crew member of an F-15E Strike Eagle that was allegedly shot down over southern Iran on Friday. The operation — stretching across 48 hours, involving dozens of aircraft, heavy firefights, and at least one […]

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