Several senators are asking appropriators to increase funding for NASA’s robotic Mars exploration efforts, fearing “severe and irreversible harm” if funding is not restored.

Sudan’s civil war has produced a economic catastrophe so severe that even an immediate peace deal cannot undo it: projected cumulative GDP losses of $18.8 billion stretching to 2043, with average incomes already thrown back to levels last seen in the early 1990s. A quarter century of economic progress, erased in three years. That projection, […]

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People who fall in love slowly aren't guarded or avoidant — they've learned the difference between neurochemical intensity and genuine depth, and they're paying a kind of careful attention that our culture routinely mistakes for hesitation.

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Strategic silence in group decisions isn't passivity — it's a rational response to environments that punish honesty. The quiet person has calculated the social cost of speaking up and found the price too high, revealing more about the group's dysfunction than their own.

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Japan established two new offices within its Ground Self-Defense Force in early April dedicated entirely to unmanned warfare, a move that signals how seriously Tokyo is treating the convergence of demographic decline and modern battlefield realities. The offices, formally inaugurated at a ceremony in mid-April, are staffed by a small team. They are tasked with […]

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Shrinking ice is arguably one of the most visible indicators of climate change – particularly in the Arctic. However, a European Space Agency-funded study used information from satellites to show that Antarctica is now experiencing similar dramatic changes, with profound consequences for key plankton species that underpin the region’s marine food web.

The child who feels both terrified and relieved by the night sky isn't confused — she's experiencing the cognitive state that generates every meaningful question. That contradiction between insignificance and wonder is the engine of curiosity, not an obstacle to it.

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The Western alliance is fracturing in real time, and Italy just delivered the clearest proof yet. When Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suspended her country’s defence cooperation agreement with Israel, she didn’t just freeze one bilateral pact — she demonstrated that Donald Trump is losing the European allies he needs to project power in the Middle […]

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