Almost everyone can name their learning style. Ask a room of people whether they learn best by seeing, hearing, or doing, and most will answer without hesitation.
Sergei Krikalev left Earth as a citizen of the Soviet Union on 18 May 1991. When he returned 311 days and 20 hours later, the Soviet Union no longer existed.
We are writers reading the psychology literature, not clinicians or behavioural scientists.
The Moon looks frozen in time, its craters preserving impacts billions of years old.
At Saturn's north pole, clouds race around a shape that looks as if it was drawn with a ruler.
"Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest", Marcus Aurelius wrote to himself in the second book of his Meditations.
Somewhere in the North Pacific, an unidentified animal once produced a call unlike any other signal in a vast archive of whale sounds.
The story sounds almost too neat: a spacecraft launched in 1977, a set of thrusters last used in 1980, and a team on Earth asking them to work again 37 years later.
If light has had only 13.8 billion years to travel, a universe 93 billion light-years across sounds impossible.
In June 1989, a seventeen-year-old Elon Musk left South Africa for Canada on his own, having secured a Canadian passport through his Canadian-born mother.
Hubble’s first images did not look like the beginning of a new era in astronomy.
South Korea has spent close to 20 years and hundreds of trillions of won trying to get its citizens to have more children.
In 2002, a team led by Becca Levy at the Yale School of Public Health reported a result that has been quoted in wellness writing ever since.
Four light-years sounds close only because astronomy usually deals in much larger numbers.
Around 1967, Harvard turned down a young astronomer for tenure. His name was Carl Sagan.
Mercury is a planet of extremes. At the equator during the day, its surface can become hot enough to melt lead.
