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Human BehaviourBy 2030, Korean women are projected to become the first population in human history with an average life expectancy above 90 years — exceeding even Japan — according to a Lancet study of 35 industrialized nations, in a demographic shift driven by improvements in cardiovascular health and near-universal healthcare access In February 2017, an international team led by Majid Ezzati, professor of global environmental health at Imperial College London, published a paper in The Lancet projecting future life expectancy across 35 industrialised countries. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 10, 2026

Mind & MeaningThought of the day from novelist and essayist Annie Dillard: "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." The line comes from a book about writing, of all things. In The Writing Life, Annie Dillard writes: "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. By Mal James · Jun 10, 2026

PsychologyThought by Carl Sagan: "All of human history happened on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." Everyone you love lives on less than a pixel There is a photograph people reach for whenever they have just lost an argument, a job, or their nerve. By Daniel Moran · Jun 10, 2026

Earth NewsApple-sized rocks four kilometres below the central Pacific Ocean contain more cobalt and manganese than all known land deposits combined, and mining companies are now racing to extract them from one of the least-explored ecosystems on Earth, where over 90 per cent of the local species are still undescribed. The region is called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. It is approximately six million square kilometres of abyssal plain stretching between… By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 9, 2026

Mind & MeaningAfter tracking how people formed new friendships, a researcher estimated the hours it quietly takes — about 50 to feel like casual friends, but more than 200 before someone becomes a close one More than 200 hours of hanging out, talking, and doing ordinary things together before someone starts to look less like a regular friend and more like a close one. By Mal James · Jun 9, 2026