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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Dark energy — the invisible force accelerating the universe’s expansion — may not be the fixed constant physicists have assumed for a quarter century. That is the quietly seismic possibility emerging from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, which has just completed the largest high-resolution 3D map of the cosmos ever constructed: 47 million galaxies and […]

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Most of us, when we imagine old age, picture the regrets as moral failures. The affair. The addiction. The year we let anger run the show. The bad thing we did that haunts us for decades afterward. That’s not what the research actually finds. And it isn’t what I’ve heard from older people across three […]

The post Psychology says the deepest regrets in later life aren’t things people did wrong – they’re things people did right by every external measure that quietly hollowed out the parts of their life that actually mattered, because the cruelest regrets are the ones that spent decades disguised as virtues before revealing what they actually cost appeared first on Space Daily.

Most of us, when we imagine old age, picture the regrets as moral failures. The affair. The addiction. The year we let anger run the show. The bad thing we did that haunts us for decades afterward. That’s not what the research actually finds. And it isn’t what I’ve heard from older people across three […]

The post Psychology says the deepest regrets in later life aren’t things people did wrong – they’re things people did right by every external measure that quietly hollowed out the parts of their life that actually mattered, because the cruelest regrets are the ones that spent decades disguised as virtues before revealing what they actually cost appeared first on Space Daily.