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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.

Psychology

When a human and a dog gaze into each other’s eyes, both of them release oxytocin — the same hormone released between a human mother and her infant during nursing — and Japanese researchers reported in 2015 that this cross-species chemical feedback loop appears to be unique to dogs and their humans and does not occur in wolves

The chemical mechanism that binds a human mother to her nursing infant appears to also bind a human to their family dog — and, on the available experimental…

Jul 2, 2026
Mind & Meaning

After a Hollywood film starring Leonardo DiCaprio put an obscure Thai island beach on the global tourism map in 2000, the beach was overwhelmed by so many visitors over the next eighteen years that the Thai government closed it entirely in 2018 to let it heal — and the film studio was later ordered to help pay for the restoration

The most idyllic-looking beach in Southeast Asia was destroyed by the movie that made it famous, and then destroyed again by the tourists that the movie brought.

Jul 2, 2026
Human Behaviour

When FIFA gave the 1994 World Cup to the United States, it did so on one condition: America had to build a professional soccer league from scratch — Major League Soccer launched two years later, and the tournament itself set a total-attendance record that stood for thirty-two years until the current 2026 World Cup

FIFA's condition for giving the World Cup to a country that did not particularly want it was that America had to build itself a professional soccer league before the tournament arrived.

Jul 2, 2026
Human Behaviour

Mitophagy is the cellular housekeeping that dismantles broken mitochondria — it changes with age, and researchers now see that faltering maintenance as one of aging’s deeper biological engines

Mitophagy, the cellular process that dismantles broken mitochondria, was named by Norwegian biochemist Per Ottar Seglen in 2005. Its slow failure with age is now considered a driver of aging itself, not just a consequence — and the same pathway that fails catastrophically in early-onset Parkinson's fades gently in everyone else.

Jul 2, 2026
Time And Space

A self-taught Yorkshire carpenter’s son spent forty years building four increasingly precise sea clocks to solve a navigation problem that was killing sailors by the thousands, and won a £20,000 prize from Parliament equivalent to approximately £4 million today, but had to be personally supported by King George III before the astronomers who dominated the prize committee would agree to pay him

The problem was longitude. For most of the age of sail, mariners could determine their latitude, or north-south position, straightforwardly enough by measuring the height of the noonday sun above the horizon.

Jul 2, 2026
Psychology

Steve Jobs told a New York Times reporter in late 2010 that his own children had not used the iPad, and that he limited technology at home, even as the tablet he had unveiled in San Francisco months earlier was on its way to selling hundreds of millions

In 2010, a year after unveiling the iPad in Cupertino, Steve Jobs told New York Times reporter Nick Bilton that his own children had never used one. The quote, published four years later, set the template for a Silicon Valley pattern that has held ever since.

Jul 1, 2026
Africa News

The last missing royal tomb of Ancient Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty, belonging to a pharaoh named Thutmose II who ruled approximately 3,500 years ago, was announced by a joint British-Egyptian archaeological team in February 2025, in the first discovery of a pharaonic tomb near the Valley of the Kings since Tutankhamun’s was found by Howard Carter in November 1922.

The Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt ruled the country between approximately 1550 and 1292 BCE, a period during which Egypt reached the greatest territorial extent, wealth, and cultural influence in its recorded history.

Jul 1, 2026