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Nato Lagidze

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Nato Lagidze is a writer and researcher at Space Daily with an academic background in psychology. She investigates self-compassion, emotional intelligence, decision-making, and psychological well-being — the kinds of questions that sit at the heart of Space Daily's Mind & Meaning pillar. Her work draws on academic research and applies it to the everyday.

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Psychology

A study of 7,415 people in the NIH’s All of Us Research Program suggests that stress translates into measurable biological wear, allostatic load, more consistently in people whose household income sits above the study’s median than in those below it, and the researchers’ explanation for the gap has nothing to do with resilience

The wealthy experience stress damage in their bodies at higher rates than the poor—upending everything we thought we knew about how hardship affects health.

Sep 11, 2026

Psychology

Of fifteen widely used psychological measures put through four separate validity tests, exactly one passed all four, and the field’s response has been to publish more measures — the main archive now holds 73,646, over half of which have never been used a second time

Psychology's measurement crisis keeps deepening as thousands of unvalidated assessment tools proliferate, yet the field rarely acknowledges that many may be measuring nothing at all.

Sep 9, 2026

Human Behaviour

A sky dark enough to reveal thousands of stars barely exists across most of Europe anymore, and scientists are treating the disappearance of real darkness as a measurable variable in mental health, not just an astronomy problem

Light pollution has become a public health crisis that neuroscientists are only beginning to understand, leaving millions of people living under skies that their bodies were never designed to navigate.

Aug 19, 2026

Space Travel

Of the 27 songs NASA sent into space aboard the Voyager Golden Record in 1977, one is a Georgian song called Chakrulo, sung by two soloists over a full choir in harmonies tuned to intervals that don’t exist on a piano — and this November, the spacecraft carrying it becomes the first human-made object ever to travel a full light-day from Earth

A Georgian polyphonic song travels farther from Earth than any human creation, carrying a nation's voice into the cosmos—and its journey raises ancient questions about what humanity chooses to remember.

Aug 14, 2026

Human Behaviour

Encyclopaedia Britannica recently introduced English speakers to fjaka, the Dalmatian art of doing absolutely nothing, and if the word sounds unfamiliar, the feeling won’t, it’s the same skill the Dutch spent years building an entire wellness trend around and calling niksen.

As wellness trends go viral, the real skill isn't the exotic word—it's the radical permission to want nothing from your own time.

Aug 13, 2026

Human Behaviour

Wellness retreats are sold as a break from your life. What a 2025 neuroimaging study found is that after seven days, the brain network responsible for that constant inner narrator went about as quiet as it typically does on psilocybin, and nobody in the study had taken anything

A week of silence can rewire the brain's self-talk networks as dramatically as psychedelic drugs—without any chemical assistance.

Aug 12, 2026

Climate Science

Wildfire smoke is made of particles large enough to scatter away blue light and let red, orange and yellow pass through, and that same physics turned the sky over an evacuation near Toledo the color of an old photograph

When wildfire smoke turns the sky apocalyptic shades of red and gold, it's not the flames doing the coloring—it's physics playing a trick with light.

Aug 8, 2026

Nuclear Space

Scientists have blamed sulfur released by the Chicxulub impact for the impact winter that killed the dinosaurs for decades, but the meteorite responsible belongs to a class that contains markedly less sulfur than the types previously proposed as the culprit

A new analysis of the dinosaur-killing asteroid upends decades of climate theory, suggesting the impact winter may have unfolded through an entirely different mechanism than scientists believed.

Aug 6, 2026

Psychology

I used to treat boredom as a problem to be solved and now I treat it as a signal, which sounds like a small reframe until you realise it changes almost every decision you make between 6pm and midnight

What our inability to tolerate empty moments costs us—and why the most productive people are learning to embrace doing nothing at all.

Aug 6, 2026

Science

In the early 2000s about one in a hundred published cancer research papers showed signs of coming from a fraudulent paper mill, and by 2022 that number had climbed to nearly one in six

The scientific literature is being quietly flooded with fake studies, and nobody knows how to stop it.

Aug 5, 2026

Human Behaviour

I watched the sky over a wildfire evacuation near Toledo turn orange, though the strangest part was not the sky but how familiar it felt to be told to leave

When wildfire smoke turns the sky into something unrecognizable, it forces a reckoning between the scientific and the visceral.

Aug 5, 2026

Human Behaviour

I put six minutes of birdsong through my headphones during the worst week of the year and something in my chest actually loosened

I put six minutes of birdsong through my headphones during the worst week of the year, and something in my chest actually loosened.

Jul 17, 2026

Mind & Meaning

The Moon has been three days away for more than half a century, and almost no one has stopped to ask what it will feel like when stops being the answer to “how far is the Moon” and starts being the answer to “how long is the flight”

I don't think I'm being naive when I say: within my lifetime, "we're going away this year" might mean the Moon instead of Portugal.

Jul 1, 2026

Psychology

Loneliness and solitude produce opposite effects in the brain, which means treating one like the other makes both worse

On a Friday evening, being alone can feel entirely different depending on something I cannot always name right away.

Jun 28, 2026

Human Behaviour

Morning light exposure in the first hour after waking shapes cortisol and alertness for the hours that follow — and most people in modern built environments are not getting it

This article discusses circadian biology and personal experience with light exposure.

Jun 27, 2026

Mind & Meaning

Most cat owners I know assume their older cat is just slowing down with age — veterinary research suggests up to 92% of cats over ten have arthritis, and most are hiding it

The cat sleeps more. It jumps up onto things less. It takes longer to get comfortable and doesn't race around the way it used to.

Jun 24, 2026