The compulsive need to plan before acting is one of the most socially rewarded forms of anxiety. Neuroscience research reveals why the inability to improvise isn't caution — it's a fear response that began in childhood and lives in the brain's circuitry.

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NASA’s Artemis 2 mission is on its way to the moon after a successful maneuver April 2.

The people we envy most are often performing a version of happiness optimized for visibility, not internal coherence — and recognizing the difference is one of midlife's most clarifying realizations.

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Six days from now, a spacecraft carrying four instruments will lift off from French Guiana on a mission to photograph something no human has ever seen directly: the collision between the solar wind and Earth’s magnetic shield. The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer, known as SMILE, is a joint effort between the European Space […]

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The most competent person on a team often becomes the loneliest — not from exclusion, but from being so thoroughly included in everyone's problems that nobody thinks to include them as a person. The social cost of competence is real, measurable, and almost entirely unacknowledged.

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NASA modified operations of an astrophysics spacecraft in a decaying orbit to buy more time for a mission later this year that will attempt to raise its orbit.