Psychology
Adults who say they do not really need anything for their birthday may not just be…
A birthday rolls around. Someone close asks the standard question. "What do you want?
Human Behaviour
People who own three of every household basic may not be hoarders
The signs are easy to miss because the kitchen always works. There are batteries in three different drawers.
Psychology
The psychology of keeping the radio on in an empty house
It is one of the smallest rituals in adult life. The kettle goes on. The radio goes on.
Human Factors
For some people who consistently remember every birthday, anniversary, and small…
You mention, in passing, that you have not slept well lately. A week later, a friend asks how the sleep has been.
Psychology
The adults who keep their phone face-down at dinner may not be doing it to be polite
It is a small gesture, almost invisible. The phone goes face-down on the table before the menus arrive.
Human Behaviour
Adults who apologize for things that were not their fault may not be insecure
The patterns are recognizable once you start watching for them. Someone bumps into them in the corridor, and they apologize.
Psychology
To the parent who keeps every drawing, every report card, and every handprint
We'd bet there is, somewhere in your house, a box. Maybe it is a plastic tub on a shelf in the closet.
Psychology
Adults who apologize for the state of their house the moment guests walk in may not…
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.
Psychology
Adults who buy the cheap version of everything for themselves and the nice version…
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.
Space & Missions
The Moon's Interior Isn't What We Thought
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.
Universe
Survey of 80 near Earth asteroids sharpens view of their origins and risks
An international team led by researchers at the Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has completed a one year observing campaign to better classify these objects.
Time And Space
Dark star theory links JWST early universe anomalies
In the standard picture, the first stars formed in regions dominated by dark matter, at the centers of dark matter microhalos, a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
Universe
Icy cycles may have driven early protocell evolution
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.
Time And Space
Primordial magnetism offers fresh angle on the Hubble constant puzzle
The Hubble tension arises because two precise approaches to determining the Hubble constant give significantly different results, despite drawing on high quality data.
Universe
JWST study links sulfur rich gas giants to core growth in distant HR 8799 system
HR 8799 lies about 133 light years away in the constellation Pegasus and hosts four giant planets, each between five and ten times the mass of Jupiter and orbiting between 15 and 70 astronomical units from their star.
Universe
Lab made cosmic dust experiment reveals paths to life chemistry
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.