Psychology
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
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
People who keep their childhood bedroom exactly as it was, who can't throw out their parents' handwriting, and who hold onto kitchen tools nobody uses aren't always cluttered, they may be keeping access to people they can no longer call
Human Behaviour
SpaceX is reflying its sixth cargo Dragon while Boeing's crewed Starliner reverts to uncrewed resupply — and the $4.2B-versus-$2.6B contracts that produced both were signed the same day in 2014
Psychology
Why do we explore, anyway
Human Behaviour
The Katy Perry flight wasn't a vanity project. It was the moment the space industry finally admitted who its real customer is — and the backlash, however satisfying it felt, missed the point entirely.
Psychology
Why Chris Hadfield argues that fear is a knowledge problem, and how we might apply it to our own lives
Psychology
The quiet freedom of routine
Human Behaviour