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On April 1 this year, four astronauts left Earth on humanity's first crewed lunar mission since 1972, and by April 6 they had flown farther from home than any humans in history " returning with the strange perspective astronauts have described for decades, where Earth stops looking like a place and starts looking like something impossibly fragile.
57+ min ago (1107+ words) On 1 April 2026, Artemis II lifted off from Kennedy Space Center with four people aboard Orion, beginning the first crewed lunar mission since Apollo 17 in 1972. By 6 April, the mission had moved beyond the familiar scale of low Earth orbit. Published July…...
NASA awards nearly $600 million for four new Moon Base cargo landings, targeting late 2028
1+ hour, 27+ min ago (212+ words) Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines will each fly updated versions of landers they have already flown, carrying the same three NASA science instruments to build a network of data across the lunar surface....
NASA's Curiosity rover has identified the most diverse set of organic molecules yet found on Mars, including seven never before detected there, from a sample drilled in 2020 and studied for years before the chemistry finally came into focus
4+ hour, 10+ min ago (743+ words) Published July 2, 2026 NASA's Curiosity rover drilled a Martian rock sample in October 2020. The chemistry took years to resolve. The finding is not evidence of life. NASA says scientists cannot determine whether the molecules formed through biological or geological processes, or…...
Quote by Walter Cronkite: "Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
4+ hour, 12+ min ago (385+ words) Walter Cronkite, the American news anchor, once said that whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. By Daniel Moran " Editorial process Published July 2, 2026 Walter Cronkite, the American news anchor, once…...
Thought of the day by Stoic philosopher Seneca: "When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."
6+ hour, 27+ min ago (596+ words) Seneca wrote: "Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind. Published July 2, 2026 Seneca wrote: "Our plans miscarry because they have no aim....
Most people don't realize Maslow revised his famous hierarchy of needs, and the top was not self-actualisation but self-transcendence, the pull beyond the self entirely
5+ hour, 26+ min ago (418+ words) Published July 2, 2026 Here is a fact that probably unsettles almost everything a psychology textbook taught you about human motivation: the pyramid at the centre of the story was never drawn by the man whose name it carries. Abraham Maslow did…...
A damaged mitochondrion is worse than useless " it leaks and drags down the entire cell around it, like an engine slowly clogging on its own exhaust, until a recycling crew dismantles it
6+ hour, 4+ min ago (392+ words) Inside a healthy human muscle fibre, a mitochondrion the length of a bacterium is churning out ATP by pumping protons across a membrane only 7 nanometres thick " and when that membrane starts to leak, cellular sensors" Published July 2, 2026 The stakes are…...
A tiny "quasi-moon" called Kamo'oalewa shadows Earth's orbit and may be a piece of the actual Moon blasted into space by an ancient impact " and China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft is now closing in to bring a sample back to Earth.
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In 2024, engineers rescued Voyager 1 after it spent months transmitting gibberish, remotely rewriting and relocating pieces of 46-year-old code around a failed memory chip from more than 24 billion kilometres away.
11+ hour, 57+ min ago (502+ words) In late 2023, one of the most distant machines humanity has ever built started talking nonsense. Published July 2, 2026 Voyager 1 launched in 1977 and is now the most distant human-made object in existence, travelling through interstellar space beyond the edge of the Sun's…...
Mitophagy is the cellular housekeeping that dismantles broken mitochondria " it changes with age, and researchers now see that faltering maintenance as one of aging's deeper biological engines
12+ hour, 34+ min ago (1020+ words) Mitophagy, the cellular process that dismantles broken mitochondria, was named by Norwegian biochemist Per Ottar Seglen in 2005. Its slow failure with age is now considered a driver of aging itself, not just a consequence " and the same pathway that fails…...