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.

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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.

SpaceX began trading on the Nasdaq on Friday 12 June under the ticker SPCX, in what was, by the size of the raise, the largest initial public offering on record.

By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 13, 2026

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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.

SpaceX's listing on the Nasdaq on Friday made Elon Musk the first person worth $1 trillion on paper.

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A trained dog can detect a single drop of blood diluted in 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools — a sensitivity so extreme that dogs can pick up the molecular traces of cancer in a person's breath — and a 2024 study found them correctly identifying breast, lung, prostate, and colorectal cancer with roughly 94 percent accuracy

Somewhere in a quiet research facility outside Tel Aviv, a Labrador retriever named Mars is being asked to do something a $100,000…

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We often credit perks and pay for engagement at work, but one analysis found something else mattered more — meeting workers' needs for autonomy, competence and connection, with well-being rising as stress and burnout fell

It may come as no suprise to you that workplace engagement is in decline. According to Gallup's State of the Global Workplace 2026 report…

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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.

When SpaceX listed on the Nasdaq on Friday, Elon Musk appeared on a video feed from Starbase in Texas, projected into the exchange's headquarters.

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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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A single day on Mercury, from one sunrise to the next, lasts 176 Earth days, which is two full Mercury years

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Two billion years ago, a uranium deposit in Gabon switched itself on as a natural nuclear reactor, running in pulses for hundreds of thousands of years as groundwater boiled away and seeped back to throttle the chain reaction

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In 1994, a park ranger rappelling into a sandstone canyon 150 kilometres from Sydney found a living stand of trees known until then only from 90-million-year-old fossils and presumed long extinct, and fewer than 100 wild Wollemi pines still exist in a grove whose coordinates the Australian government keeps classified.

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Breathable oxygen has now been produced on the surface of Mars — generated between 2021 and 2023 by a NASA experiment about the size of a toaster, riding inside the Perseverance rover — in the first time humans have ever made air on another planet, opening the door to bringing astronauts safely home one day

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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

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.

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.

We often credit perks and pay for engagement at work, but one analysis found something else mattered more — meeting workers' needs for autonomy, competence and connection, with well-being rising as stress and burnout fell

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.

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.

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.

A single day on Mercury, from one sunrise to the next, lasts 176 Earth days, which is two full Mercury years

Two billion years ago, a uranium deposit in Gabon switched itself on as a natural nuclear reactor, running in pulses for hundreds of thousands of years as groundwater boiled away and seeped back to throttle the chain reaction

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