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June 2026
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The most unsettling thing about a mass extinction is that it does not always feel apocalyptic while it is happening. It can begin as scattered local losses — a forest gone quiet, a river emptied, a familiar animal no longer seen — until, much later, the pattern resolves into something planetary.
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A lost Maya city surfaced almost by chance inside old lidar data, suggesting the jungle may still be hiding whole urban landscapes in datasets no archaeologist has properly read.
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The first humans on Mars will not just be explorers crossing a red desert. They will be radiation workers, dust-control technicians and weather-watchers on a planet where the danger is less dramatic than constant.
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The James Webb telescope keeps finding early galaxies that look brighter, bigger and more mature than astronomers expected, forcing researchers to rethink how quickly the first galaxies formed stars and assembled after the Big Bang.
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The largest insects that ever lived were dragonflies with wingspans of more than two feet, grown in an ancient atmosphere so much richer in oxygen that nothing that size could survive in the air we breathe today
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The most powerful AI stories right now are not chatbots. They are the quiet algorithms reading burnt Roman scrolls, trawling through millions of galaxies, and finding things hidden in data no human team could ever finish searching.
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In 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 probe swung around the far side of the Moon and took 29 grainy photographs of a hemisphere humans had never seen, then developed the film onboard and scanned the negatives with a flying-spot beam to radio them back across nearly 480,000 kilometres of vacuum
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The International Space Station circles the planet so fast that the crew watch the sun rise and set sixteen times in a single day, a new dawn roughly every ninety minutes
Mind & Meaning
Thought of the day from philosopher Alan Watts: "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance"
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There are millions of objects in our own solar system that have never been seen and the facility that will find them is now just months from starting its decade-long survey
Mind & Meaning
Across 19,000 people aged 18 to 68, researchers found we readily admit how much we’ve changed in the last decade — yet expect to barely change in the next, as though we’d only just become our finished selves
Mind & Meaning
Chemists have demonstrated for the first time how RNA may have copied itself on early Earth — solving a bottleneck that had blocked the origin-of-life field for decades
Mind & Meaning
Why the years seem to speed up as we age, and how focusing on one thing might make time feel slower again
Space Industry
Forecasters say a strong El Niño is building again in the Pacific, and the rest of the world tends to feel it months later as heatwaves, failed harvests and rainfall landing in all the wrong places
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