Human Behaviour
Human
The universal psychology lane. Stories about how people relate to one another, themselves, and the world — written for readers who are curious about why we behave the way we do. Sister section to Space Psychology.
Human Behaviour
For the first time in human history, most people live under skies they cannot see — and the psychological consequence of having lost the night sky has barely begun to be measured.
Human Behaviour
A single human exhale contains roughly 25 sextillion molecules, and the air on Earth is mixed thoroughly enough that statistically, every breath you take contains at least one molecule that was exhaled by Julius Caesar, by Cleopatra, and by every human who has ever lived
Human Behaviour
There is a moment near death, documented in EEG recordings of dying patients, when the brain produces a coordinated burst of gamma wave activity more intense than anything measured in waking life — and no one knows what it is, what it's for, or what the person experiencing it perceives
Human Behaviour
Most Woman of the Year awards are handed over at a gala dinner. Sweden's 2026 winner accepted hers over a live video link from the International Space Station.
Human Behaviour
Crows can recognise individual human faces, hold grudges against specific people for years, and teach those grudges to their offspring who have never met the human in question
Psychology
NASA's playbook for staying intact through long isolation
Human Behaviour
Rubin Observatory will sift 10,000 comets from a decade of nightly sky imagery while Walter Reed left 1,300 facial CT scans unread for five years — the same archival-image problem, solved in one domain and chronic in another
Human Behaviour
Europe launches a new mission to image Earth's magnetic shield in 2026 while the operational satellite warning of solar storms is a 1995 spacecraft running 28 years past retirement — the gap between discovery science and operational continuity within a single agency
Human Behaviour
Forty years and multi-tonne xenon detectors have brought dark-matter searches to the 'neutrino fog' without a signal, while a tentative hint surfaces in LIGO data built to listen for colliding black holes — and the pattern of paradigms exhausting themselves into adjacent instruments is older than physics admits
Human Behaviour
A joint European-Chinese magnetosphere mission launches in 2026 — the same year Brussels closes most of its €93.5 billion Horizon Europe programme to Chinese institutions, and the carve-out reveals which knowledge Europe still classifies as 'merely curious'
Human Behaviour
Intuitive Machines is buying a global ground-station network for $49.6 million after landing two probes on their sides — and the sequencing tells you which moats the CLPS contracting model rewards first
Human Behaviour
ESA and China’s Smile mission is set to launch on May 19, and it exposes the space-policy split Washington’s Wolf Amendment built into the Western alliance
Human Behaviour
Adults who keep apologizing for things that weren't their fault, who thank cashiers three times, and who say sorry when someone steps on their foot aren't unusually polite, they may have grown up in homes where being agreeable was the price of being safe
Human Behaviour
Russia's Sarmat ICBM was declared on combat duty before its flight-test record could support it; its Soviet predecessor went through years of sustained testing first, and the gap is less about engineering than about what 'operational' has come to mean inside a strategic-weapons bureaucracy
Human Behaviour