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The longest mountain range on Earth is one almost nobody has ever seen
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That adorable 'guilty look' your dog gives you is probably not guilt at all
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I put six minutes of birdsong through my headphones during the worst week of the year and something in my chest actually loosened
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The North Star is not the brightest star in the sky — not even close: Polaris ranks around 48th, far outshone by Sirius and dozens of others
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Human Behaviour
We tend to blame the flat, on-rails feeling of adult life on tiredness or the job, but diary and brain research point to something else
The flat, on-rails feeling of adult weeks isn't really about tiredness or the job. Diary studies and brain research point to a simpler culprit: predictability itself lets the days run without conscious attention, and the brain quietly stops recording them.
Science
Roughly 2% of the global population meets the clinical threshold for giftedness
The 2% threshold for giftedness is a statistical convention — but inside it sits a nervous system pattern, first described by Dabrowski in the 1960s, that pairs exceptional pattern recognition with unusual sensitivity to sensory input.
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Industry news, exploration, and the engineering of getting humans and machines beyond Earth.
In 2026, engineers at ESA’s test centre in the Netherlands sealed Plato inside the Maxwell chamber and ran every one of its 26 cameras and…
On July 18, 2026, Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 became the first privately developed Indian rocket to reach orbit from Sriharikota after a…
In 1977, NASA launched two probes designed to last five years
In early 1962, weeks before John Glenn's orbital flight, a NASA mathematician named Katherine Johnson was asked to recompute by hand what…
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Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
In May 1973, Skylab reached orbit with its heat shield torn away, one solar wing gone and the other jammed, leaving America’s first space…
Proxima Centauri is the nearest star beyond the Sun, yet this red dwarf is normally invisible to the naked eye
A radio structure thought for 40 years to tower over the Milky Way’s centre is actually a nearby stellar bubble
In 1977, NASA launched two probes designed to last five years
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Science
Physics, climate, planetary science, and the research that shapes how we understand the universe.
Researchers tested an engineered enzyme on donated skin tissue and brought its chemical aging markers down to levels typically seen in…
Roughly 2% of the global population meets the clinical threshold for giftedness
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A detector buried a kilometre underground in Japan may have caught the faintest signal ever recorded
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Space Daily is an independent publication covering three connected beats: the space industry, the science behind it, and the psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes. Founded in Tokyo in 1995, we’ve built a thirty-year archive of rigorous reporting on the people, missions, and ideas pushing humanity outward — and on the human dynamics shaped by frontier life. The same ambitions, pressures, and patterns of mind that drive humanity to the stars also shape how we live on Earth. We employ modern AI technologies to support our editorial workflows; every published piece is editorially directed and reviewed.
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