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June 2026
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Human Factors
For years the rule seemed settled — money stops buying happiness past $75,000 a…
Science & Engineering
In 1968, the engineers building the Apollo Guidance Computer wove its software into…
Space & Missions
In 2026, Airi Toida and Yuichiro Ezoe modeled a sub-10-kilogram X-ray telescope…
Universe
MIT engineers just collapsed the oldest tradeoff in satellite propulsion
Constellations
At the University of Twente, Davoud Jafari's team flew 3D-printed nickel-titanium…
Human Factors
A Yale researcher measured how people felt about growing old, and what she found…
Science & Engineering
The fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis infects carpenter ants in tropical forests…
Human Factors
Many of us see status-seeking as a shallow modern preoccupation, but research…
Human Behaviour
The longest piece of music ever composed is being performed right now in a church…
Psychology
In the original Dunning-Kruger studies, bottom-quartile performers greatly…
Psychology
Close relationships are associated with better later-life wellbeing, but they are…
Human Factors
Around 240 BCE, Eratosthenes used shadows and geometry to estimate Earth’s…
Constellations
The next great space race may not be to plant flags, but to bring home the first…
Human Factors
Only 66 years separate the Wright Brothers' first 12-second powered flight in 1903…
Science & Engineering