Human Factors
July 2026
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Human Behaviour
Japan has a word for the kind of person who spends a lifetime perfecting one craft
Science & Engineering
Line up Jupiter, Venus and every other planet in perfect alignment and their…
Human Behaviour
The word 'meme' appeared in print for the first time in Richard Dawkins' 1976 book…
Space & Missions
Titan holds hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than every known oil and gas…
Science & Engineering
Scientists searching for alien life are looking ever further out, to Europa, a moon…
Space & Missions
On Titan the mountains are made of water
Human Behaviour
We tend to think boy bands are made for teenage girls and forgotten just as fast
Space & Missions
The sun is 27 million times heavier than the moon, yet its pull on our tides is…
Physics News
The tide rises twice a day because the ocean bulges on both sides of Earth at once
Earth & Life
The Earth's inner core grows by roughly a millimetre a year as molten iron freezes…
Earth & Life
Gold, platinum and most of Earth's heavy metals sank into the core as the young…
Universe
The universe is supposed to have no preferred direction or special axis
Asia News
On a Thursday in mid-November each year, South Korea grounds all commercial…
Human Factors
Carl Sagan's 1980 PBS series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" has been broadcast in more…
Science & Engineering