Mind & Meaning
July 2026
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Mind & Meaning
The Strait of Hormuz is only 33 kilometres wide at its narrowest point, yet roughly a fifth of all the oil traded on Earth passes through that single channel every day, making it the most consequential strip of water on the planet
Mind & Meaning
The gut and brain are in constant two-way communication — and scientists now see many cases of chronic constipation as a disorder of that signalling, not simply a problem of digestion
Moon Daily
China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft chased Earth’s tiny quasi-moon for 400 days and 1 billion kilometres — but just as it returned the first close-up image, new evidence challenged the leading theory that Kamoʻoalewa is a fragment blasted from the Moon
Psychology
A new paper argues that Earth's gravity is a hidden anchor for consciousness — and that losing it in orbit loosens the mind in a way that echoes psychedelics
Time And Space
The James Webb Space Telescope found tiny “little red dots” that looked like impossibly compact galaxies — but astronomers now suspect many may be “black hole stars,” young black holes wrapped in gas so dense that the material falling into them produces a star-like glow
Human Behaviour
Brené Brown spent years studying vulnerability and found the barrier to being known is not the willingness to give — kind people give constantly — but the far harder act of letting someone see the parts you smooth over
Human Behaviour
In her research on shame and connection, Brené Brown reached a conclusion that reframes loneliness entirely: you cannot be fully known by people who are only ever looking for what they can take from you
Earth Observation
Everything we know about the Earth's core comes from earthquakes: seismic waves slow, bend, and vanish as they cross the boundaries below us, and in 1936 a Danish scientist named Inge Lehmann read those shadows to reveal a hidden inner core nested at the planet's center
Earth Observation
In 2023, seismologists at the Australian National University, reading the echoes of earthquakes ringing back and forth through the whole planet, confirmed Earth hides an innermost core inside its inner core, a distinct iron ball roughly 1,300 kilometres across whose crystals line up along a different axis than the shell around it
Marsdaily
NASA's Curiosity rover has been operating on Mars since August 2012 — its aluminium wheels are now riddled with holes and cracks, and every metre it travels is planned in centimetres by a team on Earth working overnight shifts on Mars time
Space Industry
A single London to New York flight delivers roughly 37 microsieverts of cosmic radiation — about 1% of the natural dose an average person absorbs from rocks, air and ground across an entire year
Science
In 1994, a park ranger abseiling into a canyon 150 kilometres northwest of Sydney found a stand of trees with knobbly bark that matched 90-million-year-old fossils, and the Wollemi pine's exact location is still classified
Science
We tend to think Voyager 1 has already left the solar system, but it has only crossed beyond the Sun’s protective plasma bubble — NASA says it will take another 300 years to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud, and perhaps 30,000 years to pass beyond the solar system’s outermost frontier
Eclipses
In less than a month the Moon's shadow will race across the planet and plunge parts of Greenland, Iceland and Spain into sudden darkness in the middle of the day — the first total solar eclipse visible from mainland Spain in more than a hundred years — and the exact spots where day briefly turns to night are already mapped to the second
Marsdaily