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May 2026
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Mind & Meaning
Psychology suggests some of the happiest people after 70 may not be the ones who found purpose — they may be the ones who stopped demanding that every day justify itself
Human Behaviour
People who arrive at airports three hours early often aren't just anxious travelers, many grew up watching a parent panic about money, time, or paperwork and learned that buffer was the only protection against humiliation
Science
A Phase 2 trial just began testing whether a GLP-1 drug can slow brain shrinkage in progressive MS, and it could finally answer a question diabetes researchers have been circling for years
Climate Science
The microscopic ocean species doing roughly five percent of the planet's photosynthesis wasn't even described in textbooks until the late 1980s, and the carbon budgets attributed to it have been quietly rewritten ever since
Human Behaviour
The generation that grew up in the 1960s and 70s didn’t expect life to be fair - and that single adjustment may be why so many of them find a kind of ease in later life
Constellations
The complete story of how the James Webb Space Telescope survived twenty-five years of near-cancellation to become the most ambitious instrument humans have ever launched
Constellations
Why ion engines barely push harder than a sheet of paper and how that whisper of thrust is quietly rewriting the economics of deep space exploration
Constellations
Artemis Astronauts May Walk Across Lunar Mantle Debris, New Simulations Suggest
Human Behaviour
People who finish other people's sentences, anticipate moods, and notice when someone has gone quiet aren't always intuitive, many learned early to read a room before they felt safe in it
Human Behaviour
The happiest people I know aren’t the ones who think positively about everything - they’re the ones who stopped arguing with reality and learned to build something meaningful inside the life they actually have
Science
Stanford scientists just reversed memory loss in old mice by changing their gut bacteria, and the same vagus nerve devices it points to are already FDA-cleared for other conditions
Human Behaviour
Nobody really talks about why the most reliable person in any family often goes quiet by their late fifties, and for many it isn't that they stopped being needed, it's that being dependable got mistaken, somewhere along the way, for not having needs of their own
Internet Space
Psyche Probe to Slingshot Past Mars, Tuning Instruments En Route to Metal Asteroid
Internet Space
Shadow-Earth-053: How Beijing Fused Espionage and Dissident Hunting Into One Campaign
Human Behaviour