The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope looked at a scene it first captured in 1997 in honour of 36th anniversary: a small portion of a star-forming region about 5000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, known as the Trifid Nebula. The image shows changes over incredibly short timescales and instills a sense of awe and wonder about our ever-changing Universe.

Self-sufficiency and healing look identical from the outside, but one increases your capacity for connection and the other quietly shrinks it. Here's how to tell which one you're actually doing.

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There’s a phenomenon astronauts often describe called the Overview Effect. It’s that radical shift in perspective you get when you see Earth from space. Borders disappear. The squabbles that consumed your attention down on the surface suddenly look ridiculous. You realize, in your bones rather than just your head, that we’re all on the same […]

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US naval forces boarded an Iranian-flagged container ship near the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, escalating tensions in the region and pushing fragile diplomatic efforts to the edge of collapse. The operation casts serious doubt on talks scheduled for Monday in Pakistan. President Donald Trump said the vessel had attempted to breach a US […]

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I grew up in Australia in the nineties and two-thousands, so I wasn’t a 1960s kid. But my parents were. And most of the adults who shaped my life when I was young were people whose childhood happened in the decade of miniskirts, moon landings, and a kind of emotional climate that’s almost impossible to […]

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The loneliness of being surrounded by friends who would not notice your absence is not about friendship shortage — it is about the architecture of modern connection itself.

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The loneliness you feel at your mother's dinner table isn't about proximity — it's about the gap between who you've become and who the room still needs you to be.

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The people everyone trusts with their hardest information carry a psychological load that rarely gets named. New research on secrecy reveals why holding other people's secrets for years is quietly exhausting — and what actually helps.

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Myanmar’s military-installed government reportedly released ousted President Win Myint on Friday and reduced Aung San Suu Kyi’s prison sentence, part of a reported mass amnesty of over 4,000 prisoners timed to the Thingyan New Year holiday. The move was one of the first major acts of newly inaugurated President Min Aung Hlaing, the coup leader […]

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Officials say civil-military overlap with NASA grows as lunar activity accelerates