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People newly in love show the same serotonin levels as OCD patients
The chemical intensity of early love mimics mental illness—a state that nature seems designed to burn out within a year or so, just when couples must decide if anything real remains.
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Much of the familiar story of Dutch tulip mania traces back to one Scottish journalist writing in 1841, and much of his account ultimately…
A legendary financial bubble turns out to be built largely on satire, rumors, and one historian's unchecked borrowing from another.
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In 1989, Voyager 2 measured winds up to 2,100 kilometres an hour circling an Earth-sized storm on Neptune
In 1958, spooked by the Soviet Sputnik launch, the US Air Force secretly commissioned a study to detonate a nuclear weapon on the surface…
In the weeks before Apollo 11 launched, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins spent their quarantine signing hundreds of…
In September 1983, a Soviet lieutenant colonel named Stanislav Petrov sat in a bunker south of Moscow watching his early-warning screens…
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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 2014, Blue Origin patented the idea of landing a rocket vertically at sea, before it had launched a single orbital rocket, then used the…
In 1989, Voyager 2 measured winds up to 2,100 kilometres an hour circling an Earth-sized storm on Neptune
Mars can snow carbon dioxide at its poles, while some of its warmest summer landscapes grow dry-ice frost overnight that vanishes back into…
A zircon crystal small enough to sit on a fingertip, found in the Jack Hills of Western Australia, has been dated to 4.404 billion years…
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People newly in love show the same serotonin levels as OCD patients
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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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