A birthday rolls around. Someone close asks the standard question. "What do you want?
The signs are easy to miss because the kitchen always works. There are batteries in three different drawers.
It is one of the smallest rituals in adult life. The kettle goes on. The radio goes on.
You mention, in passing, that you have not slept well lately. A week later, a friend asks how the sleep has been.
It is a small gesture, almost invisible. The phone goes face-down on the table before the menus arrive.
The patterns are recognizable once you start watching for them. Someone bumps into them in the corridor, and they apologize.
We'd bet there is, somewhere in your house, a box. Maybe it is a plastic tub on a shelf in the closet.
The scene plays out in millions of doorways every weekend. A guest arrives, the host opens the door, and before the visitor has even crossed the threshold, the apology begins.
The patterns are so consistent they look like a design choice. The cheap supermarket soap in their own shower, the boutique soap in the guest bathroom.
Picture this. You're above Earth, strapped into the International Space Station.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander spent time on the lunar surface in early 2025, and the data it sent back may force scientists to redraw one of the oldest maps of the moon’s internal structure.
- Artemis II in 2026: the "Apollo 8" moment, a roughly 10-day crewed lunar flyby that tests Orion's life support, navigation and comms in deep space
Gas giants, such as Jupiter and Saturn in our own solar system, are large planets made mostly of helium and/or hydrogen around a dense core, but they have a bit of an identity crisis.
By tuning in to low frequency radio waves, the survey provides a strikingly different view of the cosmos than optical telescopes, tracing relativistic particles spiralling through magnetic fields.
Losurdo and her supervisor, Professor David McKenzie, filled evacuated glass tubes with nitrogen, carbon dioxide and acetylene before applying around 10,000 volts of electrical potential for about an hour.
Researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science Tokyo and collaborators investigated how mixed lipid membranes respond to repeated freeze thaw cycles that mimic temperature fluctuations on the early Earth.
