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Over ten workdays, researchers sent employees on 15-minute lunchtime walks through a park, and afternoons changed " sharper concentration, less fatigue, with much of the lift carried by how genuinely people enjoyed the walk.
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An exoplanet with a daytime temperature hot enough to vaporize iron has methane on its nightside because of an atmospheric circulation that should not be able to exist at that heat
2+ hour, 15+ min ago (132+ words) A team led by Thomas Evans-Soma of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg'has published observations of the exoplanet WASP-121b that complicate the existing picture of how chemistry moves through an ultra-hot atmosphere. Published June 19, 2026 The detection itself is…...
In 1974, psychologists found men were more likely to mistake fear for attraction after crossing a high, swaying suspension bridge
4+ hour, 14+ min ago (298+ words) A field study on two bridges over a British Columbia canyon became one of psychology's most repeated arguments that the body can confuse a racing pulse with desire....
Flamingos are not born pink: chicks hatch a dull grey and only slowly take on their famous colour as they feed on algae and tiny brine shrimp loaded with pigments called carotenoids " which means a flamingo's brilliant flush is essentially a visible read-out of how well, and how richly, it has been eating
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People who assembled a plain IKEA box would pay 63 percent more for it than people handed the same box already built, an overvaluation of their own labor that researchers named the IKEA effect
7+ hour, 14+ min ago (505+ words) In a 2012 study, researchers handed some people a plain black storage box still in its flat-pack and let others inspect the same box already assembled. Published June 19, 2026 Michael Norton, Daniel Mochon and Dan Ariely called this the IKEA effect, after…...
Najib Razak, the Malaysian prime minister who chaired 1 MDB, was jailed over the looting of the state fund " and the roughly $681 million that landed in his personal bank account became the evidentiary spine of a global financial scandal
8+ hour, 2+ min ago (1110+ words) Najib Razak walked into Kajang Prison outside Kuala Lumpur on 23 August 2022, the first Malaysian prime minister ever to be jailed, after the Federal Court upheld a 12-year sentence and a 210 million ringgit fine tied to the looting of a state…...
We tend to blame burnout on simply doing too much, but some researchers argue it grows from six quieter mismatches " workload, control, reward, community, fairness and values " between a person and the job
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NASA studied the entire lunar South Pole and narrowed humanity's landing options to just nine candidate regions " on a body the size of a continent, the ground everyone wants is barely a few neighborhoods
9+ hour, 39+ min ago (891+ words) NASA's Artemis site selection process surveyed the entire lunar South Pole and identified just nine candidate landing regions, each about 15 kilometers across " a sliver of ground smaller than greater Los Angeles on a body the size of Africa and Australia…...
Model Miranda Kerr returned roughly $8 million in jewelry " including a heart-shaped pink diamond " to U. S. investigators tracing gifts allegedly bought with stolen 1 MDB cash
9+ hour, 55+ min ago (1133+ words) Miranda Kerr handed jewelry to the U. S. Department of Justice in 2017, including a heart-shaped pink diamond that had been given to her by Malaysian financier Jho Low, after federal investigators traced the gems to money allegedly siphoned from the Malaysian sovereign…...
A commercial robot will try to catch NASA's sinking Swift telescope this month " a first for a satellite never built to be serviced
10+ hour, 15+ min ago (583+ words) Space Daily A robotic spacecraft built by a Flagstaff, Arizona, startup is preparing to chase down one of NASA's space telescopes and boost it into a higher orbit. Katalyst Space Technologies' craft, called LINK, is set to launch later this…...