The dust in your home is not just dirt — it is a mixture of skin, fabric, pollen, soil, insects, microbes, smoke, and microscopic plastic, turning an ordinary windowsill into a quiet archive of what has entered the room

Look at a windowsill after a week without cleaning and you are looking at a material document.

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 18, 2026

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Approximately 35 per cent of all purchases made on Amazon are driven by its recommendation engine, approximately 70 per cent of all viewing on YouTube comes from algorithm-driven recommendations, and peer-reviewed evidence has shown that even randomly assigned recommendations measurably alter what consumers are willing to pay for a product

The popular framing of algorithmic recommendation, repeated across most contemporary writing on consumer technology, is that personalised suggestions surface preferences the consumer already has.

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 18, 2026

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Thought of the day from Carl Jung: "Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes"

I am not a psychologist or a therapist, and what follows is one writer reading Jung and a bit of modern research, not advice.

By Mal James · Jun 18, 2026

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Researchers found that people who often share meals with others tend to report greater wellbeing, a link about as strong as income or having a job

Most days I leave my place around 1pm and go to lunch, usually alone. It is the seam in my working day, the bit between the morning at my desk and the afternoon spent moving between coffee shops.

By Mal James · Jun 18, 2026

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Some climate models suggest Venus could once have had liquid water and habitable temperatures, until a dramatic transformation hundreds of millions of years ago. One leading idea is that widespread volcanic resurfacing helped push the planet into the runaway greenhouse state that left it hotter than Mercury today.

Venus today is the most hostile planet in the solar system. Its surface sits at about 465 degrees Celsius, hotter than Mercury despite…

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 18, 2026

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In June 2026, Relativity Space — the rocket company Eric Schmidt took over in 2025, whose one rocket has never reached orbit — said it would privately build and fly a Mars orbiter in 2028, carrying NASA's Aeolus atmospheric instruments and doubling as a communications relay, paid for by a philanthropic backer it has not named

Relativity Space has reached orbit exactly zero times. Its only rocket flew once, in March 2023, climbed cleanly through the hardest part…

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 18, 2026

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Some climate models suggest Venus could once have had liquid water and habitable temperatures, until a dramatic transformation hundreds of millions of years ago. One leading idea is that widespread volcanic resurfacing helped push the planet into the runaway greenhouse state that left it hotter than Mercury today.

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The oldest solid material ever found on Earth didn't come from Earth at all — it was locked inside a meteorite that landed near Murchison, Victoria in 1969, and the stardust grains inside formed roughly 7 billion years ago, before the Sun existed.

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We tend to think of AI as a software problem, weightless and waterless, but even a 100-word email written with ChatGPT has been estimated to require roughly a bottle’s worth of water once data-centre cooling and electricity generation are counted — and scaled to global demand, researchers project AI could withdraw 4.2 to 6.6 billion cubic metres of water a year by 2027, roughly half the United Kingdom’s annual freshwater withdrawals.

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Whoever finds the Voyager Golden Record will know exactly how long it has been drifting, because the scientists who built it pressed a small sample of uranium into the cover — a built-in clock that keeps time for roughly a billion years.

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