Third New Glenn launch suffers upper stage malfunction
Sunday, 19 April 2026 12:54
Blue Origin’s New Glenn suffered a malfunction of its second stage on the rocket’s third flight April 19, stranding its payload in an “off-nominal” orbit.
A Universe in Silicon: How COLIBRE’s Simulated Cosmos Mirrors What Webb Actually Sees
Sunday, 19 April 2026 12:38
Astronomers have built a virtual universe detailed enough that its simulated galaxies are nearly indistinguishable from the real ones the James Webb Space Telescope sees in deep space. The project, called COLIBRE, traces cosmic evolution from the first billion years after the Big Bang to the present day, and for the first time in a […]
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The people who remember every small kindness but can’t recall a single compliment about themselves
Sunday, 19 April 2026 12:08
Some people retain every kindness with photographic precision and lose every compliment within hours. The asymmetry is not sentimentality — it is a measurable cognitive bias with real consequences for how people hold up under stress, isolation, and long-duration work.
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The ‘Quadruple Tap’: Anatomy of a Strike Pattern Designed to Kill First Responders
Sunday, 19 April 2026 11:06
Israeli forces have reportedly killed 91 healthcare workers and wounded more than 200 others in Lebanon since the current war with Hezbollah began in early March, according to Lebanese health ministry figures, in a pattern of strikes that emergency responders now describe using a new term of art: the quadruple tap. The phrase emerged from […]
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The Pentagon’s Quiet Bet on GPS-Free Spacecraft Navigation
Sunday, 19 April 2026 10:36
Rhea Space Activity, a Washington-based startup, has closed a $6 million Series A round to commercialize an autonomous navigation system that lets spacecraft fix their position by photographing other objects in orbit rather than relying on GPS. The funding, reported by SpaceNews, lands at a moment when the Pentagon is actively shopping for alternatives to […]
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The hardest part of being trusted isn’t the responsibility. It’s realizing people stopped checking on you because they assumed you didn’t need it.
Sunday, 19 April 2026 10:06
Trust, which feels like the reward for competence, often arrives as a reduction in contact. A crew psychologist on why the most reliable people in any team are the ones most likely to go unchecked — and what the research on emotional neglect tells us about why that hurts.
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Psychology says the happiest people after 60 aren’t the ones who found purpose or passion — they’re the ones who stopped treating happiness as something to achieve and started treating existence itself as enough
Sunday, 19 April 2026 09:45
Walk into any bookstore and the aisle for people over 60 is full of the same instructions. Find your purpose. Rediscover your passion. Set new goals. Build your legacy. The underlying assumption is that happiness in later life is something you still have to earn, and if you’re not already chasing it, you’re falling behind. […]
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Rhea Space Activity raises $6 million to develop GPS-free spacecraft navigation
Sunday, 19 April 2026 09:41
Technology traces roots to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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The Chip That Wants to Dethrone Nvidia Heads to Wall Street
Sunday, 19 April 2026 08:36
Cerebras Systems is heading to Wall Street with something no AI chip startup has brought to an IPO before: a contract with OpenAI reportedly valued at more than $10 billion. That single deal, covering inference workloads where speed matters more than raw training throughput, anchors the most credible challenge to Nvidia’s dominance that the semiconductor […]
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The quiet grief of outgrowing friendships that used to feel like the whole world to you
Sunday, 19 April 2026 08:06
The friendships that felt like the whole world when we were younger leave a particular kind of silence when they end. A literary look at why outgrowing a close friend is a real, specific grief — and why our culture gives us no language for it.
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Psychology says people who naturally become the center of attention in any room aren’t necessarily extroverted — they’ve mastered subtle behaviors that make others feel simultaneously drawn to them and slightly unsettled by their presence
Sunday, 19 April 2026 07:46
If you’ve ever walked into a room and noticed that, without a single loud word being spoken, everyone’s attention keeps bending toward one specific person, you’ve probably assumed they’re just charismatic in the way the word usually means. Outgoing. Magnetic. Life of the party. Most of the time, the research shows, you’re looking at something […]
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The unglamorous empire of spaceflight insurance: How a few London underwriters quietly decide which rockets fly and which ideas die in committee
Sunday, 19 April 2026 07:36
A small group of London underwriters quietly shape which space projects fly and which die in committee. The mechanism is rarely visible, but its consequences run through every commercial mission.
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Pyongyang’s Missile Tempo Signals a Strategic Shift Before Trump-Xi Summit
Sunday, 19 April 2026 07:06
North Korea is testing missiles faster than at any point in recent memory — and the acceleration matters more than any single launch. Multiple ballistic missiles fired off the eastern coast early Sunday represent not just another provocation but a fundamental change in how Pyongyang develops and displays its weapons capability. With a Trump-Xi summit […]
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Why NASA Is Lighting Fires on the Moon: The Gravity Blind Spot in Spacecraft Safety Standards
Sunday, 19 April 2026 06:36
NASA is preparing to deliberately ignite fires on the lunar surface. The Flammability of Materials on the Moon (FM2) experiment, developed by NASA Glenn Research Center, Johnson Space Center, and Case Western Reserve University, will send a self-contained combustion chamber to the Moon aboard a Commercial Lunar Payload Services flight. The reason is uncomfortable for […]
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5 things crew psychologists look for in astronaut candidates that have nothing to do with courage or intelligence
Sunday, 19 April 2026 06:06
Astronaut selection mythology focuses on courage and intelligence. The real screening is for five quieter traits — and commercial space operators are about to learn why they matter.
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