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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Being the person everyone calls in a crisis is not the same as being someone people actually think about. The gap between those two facts is where a specific, hard-to-name loneliness lives.

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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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AST SpaceMobile promised investors 45 satellites in orbit by year-end. After losing BlueBird 7 to a New Glenn upper stage failure in April, the company said it still expects one to two launches per month through the rest of 2026. The rocket that just failed its customer will likely be grounded for months pending an […]

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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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The people who stay calm during emergencies have been practicing in silence for years — and what looks like courage is actually the quiet residue of private rehearsal.

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Most of the culture talks about letting go as if it’s primarily a sad thing. The children move out. The career winds down. The body slows. The friends start disappearing. The story goes that aging is a long subtraction and letting go is the only decent response to it. That’s not what I see in […]

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Most of the culture talks about letting go as if it’s primarily a sad thing. The children move out. The career winds down. The body slows. The friends start disappearing. The story goes that aging is a long subtraction and letting go is the only decent response to it. That’s not what I see in […]

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Psychological safety is a property of rooms. Silence is a habit of people. Why the gap between them is where organisations lose their best thinking — and what actually closes it.

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Vulcan would be allowed to fly lower-energy missions as investigation of solid rocket motors anomaly continues