A small wave breaking on a beach contains more living organisms than the total number of humans who have ever existed on Earth — roughly 10 million bacteria, viruses, and tiny plankton in every milliliter of seawater — meaning every wave that touches the shore carries a population of life that vastly outnumbers every person who has ever lived in the entire history of our species

Stand at the edge of the ocean for a few seconds. A wave comes in. It curls, it crashes, it pushes a sheet of water across the sand and then retreats.

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 13, 2026

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There is no scientific basis for the seven-day week — unlike days, months, and years, which are tied to the Earth's rotation, the moon's cycle, and the Earth's orbit around the Sun — the week appears to come entirely from ancient Mesopotamian religious tradition, in a piece of structure that has organized the human workforce for roughly 4,000 years

Open a calendar. Notice that you do not need a telescope, a clock, or an almanac to verify what a day is — the sun rises, the sun sets, and a day has elapsed.

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 13, 2026

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We tend to think money can't buy lasting life satisfaction. But following Swedish lottery winners for up to two decades, one study found big prizes produced a durable rise in how satisfied people felt with their lives — even as the effect on their day-to-day mood proved much fainter

Money can't buy happiness. We say it so often it has the worn feel of a proverb, the kind of thing nobody bothers to check. And then…

By Mal James · Jun 13, 2026

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There is an entire continent on Earth that almost no one has ever stood on — Zealandia, a 1.9 million square mile landmass east of Australia, roughly half the size of the continent it sits beside — but 94 percent of it is submerged under the Pacific Ocean, with only the islands of New Zealand and New Caledonia poking above the waves, and it was only formally recognized as Earth's eighth continent in 2017

In August 2017, the deep-sea drilling ship JOIDES Resolution dropped its drill string into the South Pacific approximately 1,500 kilometres east of Australia and began boring into the sediments at the bottom of the Tasman Sea.

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 13, 2026

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Many people aim for 10,000 daily steps without realizing the number traces to a 1965 Japanese marketing campaign for the 'Manpo-kei' pedometer

It could be argued that a fitness wave that followed the 1964 Tokyo Olympics gave a Japanese clockmaker its opening.

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 13, 2026

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A survey across 142 countries found that about almost a quarter of people felt very or fairly lonely, but the loneliest group was not the old, as many assume: it was young adults aged 19 to 29

Almost a quarter of the world reported feeling very or fairly lonely. The Meta-Gallup Global State of Social Connections survey (pulished in 2023) put the figure at 24% across 142 countries and areas.

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 13, 2026

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SpaceX is being fast-tracked into major stock indexes that sit inside retirement accounts and passive funds — meaning millions of ordinary investors may soon own a slice of Elon Musk’s rocket company without ever choosing the stock directly, and perhaps without realizing it.

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In a single afternoon on the Nasdaq, SpaceX did not just make Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire — on paper it also lifted an estimated 4,400 current and former employees into millionaires, with around 400 sitting on stakes worth more than 100 million dollars.

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It was not Elon Musk but Gwynne Shotwell, the engineer who has turned his ambitions into operating reality since becoming SpaceX's president in 2008, who helped ring the Nasdaq bell on Friday — the moment a company built on reusable rockets and satellite internet became, on paper, worth more than two trillion dollars.

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SpaceX went public on Friday in the largest stock market debut in history, raising 75 billion dollars and closing its first day up 19 percent — turning a company its own founder once gave less than a 10 percent chance of survival into one worth more than two trillion dollars in a single session.

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