Deep Space
June 2026
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Science
At least two trillion galaxies fill the observable universe — ten times the old estimate — and most are too faint for any telescope today to see, a 2016 study found
Constellations
In May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, but only after a four-hour hold on the launch pad left him with a full bladder and no collection device, until he finally told the launch team he would have to go inside his sealed pressure suit, briefly short-circuiting his medical sensors
Psychology
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
Mind & Meaning
A 2025 NYU study found that women who actively worry about aging — particularly those who fear future health problems — measurably age faster at the cellular level than those who do not, in a quiet finding that suggests how a person thinks about getting older may itself be a biological intervention
Aerospace
When John McFall lost his right leg at 19, no one could have known the former Paralympic sprinter might one day carry the first amputee body into orbit, where two weeks in microgravity could test what six decades of spaceflight medicine never measured
Earth News
Chimpanzees at war for eight years in Uganda's Kibale National Park have, since 2018, systematically killed at least 28 members of their own former community in coordinated raids, in what a 2026 peer-reviewed paper in Science has described as only the second documented chimpanzee civil war in history, in a community that until 2015 had been the largest cohesive group of wild chimpanzees ever recorded
Psychology
Across more than 100 countries, researchers have documented a "U-curve" of human happiness — life satisfaction reliably dips through middle age before rising again in late life — and the happiness people report in their late 60s and 70s is often greater than what they felt in their 30s, in a quiet curve almost nobody expects to be on while they are inside the dip
Science
In 1927 a Brisbane physics professor melted a lump of tar and sealed it in a funnel, and almost a century later that tar, stiff enough to shatter under a hammer, has dripped only nine times
Human Behaviour
In May 2008, months before the global financial crisis tore through commodity markets, Nathan Tinkler cashed out $422 million — one of the best-timed bets in Australian history
Psychology
The Stoic philosopher Epictetus taught that almost all human suffering comes from confusing the things we can control with the things we cannot — and the simple practice he proposed, of separating those two categories every morning before anything else, has quietly become the foundation of modern cognitive behavioral therapy nearly two thousand years later
Mind & Meaning
Older adults with the highest sense of purpose in life had a 46 percent lower mortality risk over four years compared to those with the lowest scores — according to a 2022 study by Harvard's Eric Kim and colleagues — making purpose roughly 1.8 times as protective against death as not smoking, meaning what you wake up wanting to do may turn out to matter for how long you live almost as much as anything else you can measure
Psychology
Ozempic was found in a 2025 clinical trial to reduce measurable biological age in adults by approximately 3 to 5 years — with improvements in inflammation, cardiovascular health, and kidney function — meaning a drug originally designed to manage blood sugar may turn out to be one of the first medications to formally extend human healthspan
Human Behaviour
Novak Djokovic blamed gluten and dairy for the recurring illness wrecking his game, cut both before his 2011 breakthrough, and later won twelve Grand Slam titles after turning 30
Human Behaviour
Lewis Hamilton won seven Formula One World Championships, and he says the best physical decision of his life was the 2017 switch he made after watching a documentary about industrial food
Science