Space & Missions
SpaceX is skipping the booster catch on Starship V3's debut flight
SpaceX will not attempt to catch the Super Heavy booster on Starship V3's debut flight.
Psychology
Some people become harder to spend time with as they age when they stop updating…
There is a particular kind of person who becomes, somewhere in their fifties or sixties, structurally harder to spend an afternoon with than they used to be.
Constellations
A startup nobody outside aerospace had heard of just signed a real pharma deal
Varda Space Industries has signed its first major pharmaceutical partnership, agreeing with United Therapeutics to develop drug formulations in microgravity that cannot be produced on Earth.
Psychology
Psychology suggests people who become more compassionate as they get older may have…
The cultural framing of late-life compassion tends to attribute it to a particular kind of internal softening.
Psychology
People who stop caring about their birthday may have quietly changed what they need…
There is a particular kind of small ease that some adults arrive at, somewhere in their late thirties or forties or later, around the question of their own birthday.
Psychology
People who push their chair back in when they leave a table may be showing the kind…
There is a small habit that, in some adults, runs so automatically it does not register as a habit at all.
Psychology
People in their 60s and 70s who still enjoy life may share one quiet habit
There is a particular habit that the older people who appear to be genuinely enjoying their late life seem, on close examination, to share.
Psychology
Research suggests people in their 70s who spend hours watching TV may be filling…
The cultural framing of older people who watch many hours of television each day tends to read the behavior as a sign of decline.
Psychology
Adults who order the same thing at the diner every time may be giving themselves…
There is a particular kind of adult who, when they walk into a familiar diner, does not look at the menu.
Psychology
People who grew up with very few words of affirmation may carry one remembered…
There is a particular kind of memory that many adults from praise-scarce households carry, and that almost none of them, in any ordinary conversation, ever describe out loud.
Human Factors
When helping an adult child supports autonomy, and when it may get in the way
Parental help can be welcome, necessary, or overinvolved. Research links some forms of helicopter parenting with poorer adjustment, but it cannot reveal a parent's hidden motive.
Human Factors
Independent activity may help children build skills, but generational comparisons…
Unstructured and age-appropriate independence can support development. Research does not show that reduced independence is the whole explanation for rising youth anxiety.
Human Behaviour
Adults who answer the phone with a slightly brighter voice than the one they were…
The phone-voice lift looks like polite performance, but it usually belongs to people who learned early that their real tone was not welcome in the room. The brightness is genuine. So is the cost of producing it on demand.
Human Behaviour
People who keep every birthday card, handwritten note, and old postcard may be…
For people who grew up having to earn warmth, a handwritten note isn't paper — it's documentation. The psychology behind why some adults keep every card, every postcard, and every unprompted note, and what the archive is really doing.
Science & Engineering
Researchers studying chronic pain found a brain pathway that may explain why pain…
Chronic pain researchers stumbled onto a vagus nerve mechanism that helps explain why two people with identical injuries can have wildly different recovery times — and why stimulation devices are quietly moving from pain treatment into actual tissue repair.
Psychology
People who still make handwritten to-do lists may understand something many…
For more than a decade, productivity software has been built on the assumption that faster always equals better.