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Human BehaviourA bankruptcy can be 'annulled' rather than discharged in Australia — legally erased as if it never existed — and a $540 million debtor pulled it off in 2018 In 2018, one of the largest personal bankruptcies in recent Australian history quietly disappeared. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 14, 2026

Water WorldsA 49-foot bowhead whale killed by Iñupiat hunters in May 2007 was found to have been carrying a Victorian-era harpoon in its shoulder for approximately 120 years, evidence that the whale was at least 115 years old at the time of its death, because bowhead whales are the longest-lived mammals on Earth, with peer-reviewed lifespan estimates exceeding 200 years The discovery happened in the routine course of an Iñupiat subsistence hunt off the coast near Utqiaġvik, the northernmost settlement in Alaska. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 14, 2026

Human BehaviourThe crypto con called 'pig butchering' gets its chilling name from livestock — scammers spend months 'fattening' victims with daily good-morning texts before the slaughter Most pig butchering begins with a message that looks like a mistake — a text meant for someone else, landing on a stranger's phone. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 14, 2026

PsychologyCarl Jung observed that the things we cannot stand in other people — the small irritations that seem disproportionate, the people we find ourselves unable to forgive — are almost always reflections of the parts of ourselves we have not yet acknowledged, in a quiet psychological pattern he called the shadow, and the surprise is that doing the work of meeting it tends to soften nearly every difficult relationship a person carries Think for a moment about the person in your life whose presence costs you the most energy. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 14, 2026

Mind & MeaningResearchers tracked 122 people for three months and found that on days they visited more varied places, they tended to report feeling a little more positive There is a particular kind of flatness that comes from moving through the same loop of places, day after day. By Mal James · Jun 14, 2026