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Space Daily Editorial Team
Editorial Team

Space Daily Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Space Daily Editorial Team produces content across our two editorial pillars: space industry news and Mind & Meaning. We cover launches, missions, satellites, defense, and the technology of getting humans to space, alongside the psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Space Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Science

Tibetan people can live at altitudes above 4,000 metres where many humans struggle with thin air, and one of the genetic tricks that helps them do it did not arise in Tibetans alone: a 2014 Nature study found that a key high-altitude variant near EPAS1 was inherited from Denisovans, an extinct group of archaic humans who interbred with our ancestors.

Tibetans have lived for thousands of years on a plateau that averages above 3,500 metres, with many communities settled higher than 4,000, in air thin enough to leave most lowland visitors short of breath and prone to altitude sickness.

Jun 23, 2026
Space Industry

Researchers at the University of California Riverside found in May 2026 that living systems distribute their amino acids more evenly than non-living chemistry does — a statistical pattern subtle enough that it went unnoticed for decades and powerful enough to work on data already being collected by current space missions

A study published in May in Nature Astronomy proposes a way to separate biological chemistry from non-biological chemistry that does not depend on finding any particular molecule.

Jun 23, 2026
Econoplex

On the evening of June 19, Claude Guillemot — one of the five brothers who built Ubisoft from a Breton farmhouse into a global publisher of Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six — was killed when his Cessna 421 banked and crashed on approach to La Baule, and the question of whether his family’s controlling stake holds together now has no clean answer

On the evening of 19 June, Claude Guillemot was killed when the Cessna 421 he was piloting banked and crashed on approach to La Baule-Escoublac Airport on the western coast of France.

Jun 23, 2026
Science

Naked mole rats almost never get cancer and routinely live more than thirty years — roughly ten times longer than any other rodent their size — and researchers in October 2025 finally identified one of the key mechanisms: a handful of tiny mutations in a single gene that powers DNA repair in the mole rats but suppresses it in humans

If you handed a biologist a small, hairless, buck-toothed rodent the size of a sausage and told them it would outlive their golden retriever, their last car, and possibly their mortgage, they would assume you were lying.

Jun 23, 2026
Science

Most of an octopus’s brain cells live in its arms, not in its head — only about 8 percent of its 500 million neurons sit inside the central brain, with the rest spread across the eight arms and the optic lobes behind its eyes, in a body design some neuroscientists describe as the closest thing to an alien mind humanity has ever studied

The last common ancestor of human beings and octopuses was a small, flatworm-like creature that lived in the ocean approximately 600 million years ago.

Jun 23, 2026
Science

In 1944, Neal Miller harnessed hungry rats in a runway and watched them pull harder toward the food the closer they got — and harder away from the shock, with avoidance climbing steepest exactly where the reward sat, the gradient the British psychologist Jeffrey Gray later mapped to a septo-hippocampal brake

Neal Miller's 1940s rats showed that the urge to flee a goal rises faster than the urge to reach it as distance shrinks. A 2026 intracranial EEG study has now caught the same gradient inside the human hippocampus, amygdala, and prefrontal cortex — playing out in real time during a game of Pac-Man.

Jun 23, 2026
Science

In 1872, Charles Darwin catalogued the facial muscles of suppressed rage — the corrugator above the brow, the masseter at the jaw, the platysma down the neck — and the ‘antithesis principle’ he proposed still underpins how clinicians read a calm face today

Charles Darwin's 1872 catalogue of the facial muscles involved in suppressed rage — and the antithesis principle he proposed to explain why hidden anger leaks through composure — still maps onto what high-resolution facial electromyography measures today.

Jun 23, 2026
Science

Two marsupial species once known to science only from fossils, and thought lost for more than 6,000 years, have been confirmed alive in the rainforests of New Guinea’s Vogelkop Peninsula — a discovery made possible by old museum specimens, rare field photographs, fossil fragments and the knowledge of Indigenous Tambrauw and Maybrat elders.

Two marsupials known to science only from fossils, and presumed gone for more than 6,000 years, have turned out to be alive in the rainforests of the Vogelkop Peninsula in Indonesian Papua.

Jun 23, 2026
Space Industry

New Nature research suggests interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be a 12-billion-year-old relic from another planetary system, with carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen isotope ratios unlike those seen in Solar System comets — a chemical fingerprint from a world-forming environment that existed billions of years before the Sun.

An interstellar comet that passed through the Solar System last year did not come from here, and new measurements of what it is made of suggest it did not form anywhere recent either.

Jun 23, 2026