The Apollo astronauts who carried lunar dust back into the cabin kept making the same strange report — fresh Moon dust smelled like spent gunpowder — yet the smell never survived the trip home, and more than fifty years later no one has fully explained what they were breathing in up there. 1h ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Athletes who go plant-based consistently report the same first change before any strength gain — they can train hard again the next day, and the next, and the cumulative effect over months is enormous 1h ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Venus Williams was diagnosed with Sjögren’s syndrome, an autoimmune disease so exhausting she could barely get out of bed — then her sister suggested the dietary change that kept her on tour a decade longer 1h ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Scientists drilling into sediment beneath the South Pacific Gyre pulled up microbes from seabed layers as old as 101.5 million years. Starved in one of the poorest habitats on Earth, many of the cells were still viable: when given nutrients under oxygen-bearing laboratory conditions, they repaired their metabolism, took up carbon and nitrogen, and began to multiply. They are among the oldest microbial communities ever revived from dormancy. 2h ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
In 2019, BaFin banned short-selling in Wirecard shares for two months and filed criminal complaints against the Financial Times reporters investigating its accounts, the first time Germany’s market regulator had shielded one listed company that way 3h ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Rolex is owned by no billionaire or family — a single Geneva charitable foundation has held it since founder Hans Wilsdorf died childless in 1960, making the company effectively impossible to buy 3h ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Rolex is owned by no billionaire or family — a single Geneva charitable foundation has held it since founder Hans Wilsdorf died childless in 1960, making the company effectively impossible to buy 3h ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Until 1905, wristwatches were considered women’s jewelry — a gentleman who wore a timepiece on his wrist was a punchline, a prejudice one orphaned watch clerk decided to bet against 3h ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Until 1905, wristwatches were considered women’s jewelry — a gentleman who wore a timepiece on his wrist was a punchline, a prejudice one orphaned watch clerk decided to bet against 3h ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Epictetus: “Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.” 4h ago Space Daily · Mal James
Beneath Oregon’s Blue Mountains, a single honey fungus has been spreading through the roots of the forest for thousands of years, now covering nearly 10 square kilometres. Mostly hidden underground and betrayed at the surface by dying trees and seasonal mushrooms, it is one of the strongest contenders for the largest living organism on Earth. 6h ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
In 2022 the Event Horizon Telescope revealed the first image of the monster at our galaxy’s center, Sagittarius A* — a black hole 4 million times the Sun’s mass, sitting quietly 27,000 light-years away the whole time 7h ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
In 2017, the first confirmed visitor from another star system tumbled through the solar system on a path that should have been simple to read, then accelerated slightly as it left without showing the coma or tail of an active comet — a gap that let Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb argue it might be alien technology, a claim most astronomers reject but one that has never quite gone away. 8h ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Nearly three kilometres beneath a Canadian mine, geologists found water that may have been isolated in the rock for roughly two billion years — older than animals, plants and almost everything we think of as complex life. The brine was so salty and bitter that, when one researcher tasted it, she was sampling a flavour shaped by a world humans never knew 9h ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Many people assume the path to happiness is to want it and aim for it, but some research suggests the opposite can be the case — people who prized happiness most, or were nudged to, often felt less of it, especially when things were going well 10h ago Space Daily · Mal James
Older adults who took a weekly fifteen-minute walk for eight weeks felt measurably better, but the difference came down to one instruction: those told to seek out small moments of awe reported more gratitude and compassion and less daily distress 13h ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Many tend to assume the mind dims as the years pass, but when researchers tested how people reasoned through conflict, adults aged 60 to 90 reasoned more wisely than the young 15h ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Beyond Disclosure Day: What Confirmed Alien Contact Would Mean for the Global Space Economy 15h ago New Space Economy · NSE
Is Disclosure Day Based on Real UFO Documents? The Pentagon Connection Spielberg Won’t Confirm 15h ago New Space Economy · NSE