One of the biggest factors in whether a stranger finds you attractive may not be your face, your body, or your clothing — research suggests it is whether you appear to be enjoying yourself in the moment they first see you, with a smile substantially modifying how attractive you appear in the brief seconds when first impressions form

The face you walked into the room with this morning was being read, by every person who looked at you, in approximately one hundred milliseconds — about a tenth of a second, faster than any conscious thought.

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The face you see in the mirror every morning is not the face other people see — when researchers show people two photos of themselves, most prefer the mirror-flipped version, while their friends and partners shown the same pair consistently pick the unflipped one, meaning the face you have grown to recognize as your own is essentially the reverse of the one the world has been seeing all along

The face you saw in the mirror this morning was not the face anyone else saw when they looked at you over breakfast.

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In March 2025, an Old Bailey jury convicted six Bulgarians of running a Russian surveillance ring out of a Norfolk guesthouse on instructions relayed through an encrypted channel that traced back to a fugitive Austrian executive in Moscow.

On 7 March 2025, a jury at the Old Bailey returned guilty verdicts against three Bulgarian nationals — Katrin Ivanova, Vanya Gaberova and…

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Czech speleologists exploring a cave system in southern Albania in 2021 discovered the largest underground thermal lake ever found on Earth — a 138-metre-long body of warm water sitting 127 metres beneath the surface at the bottom of a 100-metre vertical abyss — large enough to fill more than three Olympic swimming pools, in complete darkness, that no human being had ever seen before

Somewhere beneath a mountain in southern Albania, in a region called Vromoner near the small town of Leskovik on the Greek border, a body…

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A brain-computer interface has, for the first time, restored fluent everyday speech to a person who had lost it — a man with ALS who had not spoken aloud in years until a small implant from the BrainGate clinical trial began translating his attempts to speak directly into computer-synthesised words, in a result researchers reported in June 2026

Casey Harrell can now talk for twelve hours at a stretch. Two years ago, he could not talk at all.

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Almost every encrypted secret being protected today — banking records, classified government cables — is expected to become readable within the next decade once quantum computers arrive, and intelligence agencies are already stockpiling that data, in a strategy called "harvest now, decrypt later"

Somewhere in a windowless data centre, in a country that may or may not be your own, a server is quietly storing a copy of every encrypted…

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In March 2025, an Old Bailey jury convicted six Bulgarians of running a Russian surveillance ring out of a Norfolk guesthouse on instructions relayed through an encrypted channel that traced back to a fugitive Austrian executive in Moscow.

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Mercury was once expected to be far too hot for ice, sitting closest to the Sun — but radar observations revealed bright patches near its poles, and NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft later confirmed that many of them were water ice, preserved inside craters where sunlight never reaches.

344 steps stood between the James Webb Space Telescope and total failure — any one could have ended it — and the telescope that survived them all now runs on less power than a household kettle, a million miles from Earth

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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In 2016, Reuters reporters legally purchased two human heads and a cervical spine from a Tennessee broker for $900 plus shipping, and no federal law was broken in the transaction.

A dying star might never collapse into a black hole — a tiny Big Bang could ignite at its core and leave a gravastar with no singularity and no event horizon

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

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In March 2025, an Old Bailey jury convicted six Bulgarians of running a Russian surveillance ring out of a Norfolk guesthouse on instructions relayed through an encrypted channel that traced back to a fugitive Austrian executive in Moscow.

Mercury was once expected to be far too hot for ice, sitting closest to the Sun — but radar observations revealed bright patches near its poles, and NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft later confirmed that many of them were water ice, preserved inside craters where sunlight never reaches.

344 steps stood between the James Webb Space Telescope and total failure — any one could have ended it — and the telescope that survived them all now runs on less power than a household kettle, a million miles from Earth

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.

In 2016, Reuters reporters legally purchased two human heads and a cervical spine from a Tennessee broker for $900 plus shipping, and no federal law was broken in the transaction.

A dying star might never collapse into a black hole — a tiny Big Bang could ignite at its core and leave a gravastar with no singularity and no event horizon

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

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