The dramatic betrayal that ends a long marriage is almost always the second one. The first happened so slowly that neither person noticed they were committing it.

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When Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz earlier this year, energy markets twitched and global headlines lit up. A narrow stretch of water, a handful of tankers, and suddenly the world economy was holding its breath. Now imagine the same chokepoint dynamic playing out a quarter of a million miles away. That comparison […]

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The habit of watching yourself grieve instead of grieving has a name, a history, and a cost that takes decades to come due.

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The hypervigilance kids of the 1980s developed at the kitchen table didn't fade when they became adults — it became the operating system they still use to navigate every room they walk into.

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The face-down phone isn't about hiding a screen. It's the visible signature of someone who learned, often painfully, that being constantly interruptible means your time belongs to whoever calls first — and is finally, quietly, refusing to keep paying that price.

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Funding backs the company’s entry into Golden Dome program to build interceptor satellites

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I keep a folder on my laptop labeled \"missions that justified themselves.\" Cassini-Huygens lives at the top of it. Not because the science was prettier than other deep-space program

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The face-down phone looks like a courtesy, but it usually marks something deeper: a person who learned, often the hard way, that being constantly reachable was how other people kept themselves at the center of the day.

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ESA has selected six new Fellows to pursue their own independent research in space science in 2026. The Research Fellowships in space science represent one of the highlights of the ESA Science programme.

Early career postdoctoral scientists are offered the unique opportunity to carry out advanced research related to the space science areas covered by ESA Science missions at one of three ESA establishments (ESAC, ESTEC or STScI) for a period of up to three years.

The 2025 Research Fellows in space science are, Emma Esparza-Borges, Ekaterina Ilin, Gregor Rihtaršič, Peter Stephenson, Paola I. Tiranti, and Jiří Žák.

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Astrobotic has pushed rotating detonation rocket engine technology past one of its most stubborn barriers, completing a 300-second continuous hot fire of its Chakram prototype at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center — potentially among the longest sustained burns any RDRE has logged to date. Across two prototype units, the Pittsburgh-based lunar lander company accumulated more […]

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