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PsychologyThe neuroscience of intense romantic obsession shows that the brain in early-stage romantic love activates the same dopamine reward circuits as cocaine and gambling, with serotonin transporter levels indistinguishable from those of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, in a finding that explains why the experience feels involuntary and typically resolves within approximately 18 months regardless of outcome The popular framing of intense romantic obsession treats it as an emotion, something that happens within the heart, that should be cultivated when reciprocated and resisted when unwelcome. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 16, 2026

ConstellationsThe James Webb Space Telescope may have seen the chemical fingerprint of a molecule linked to marine life on Earth in the atmosphere of K2-18b, 124 light-years away. But the signal is still tentative: it could be dimethyl sulfide, a related sulfur compound, or something else entirely, and scientists have not yet ruled out non-biological explanations. The James Webb Space Telescope may have picked up the faint chemical signature of a molecule that, on Earth, is made almost entirely by marine life. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 16, 2026

ConstellationsWhen SpaceX filed the paperwork for the largest IPO in history in May 2026, the prospectus that retail investors could download ran past 300 pages, while the unredacted version sat in a classified vault inside the SEC's Washington headquarters, readable by perhaps a dozen people with the right security clearances On the morning SpaceX priced the largest initial public offering in history, the prospectus a retail investor could download ran past 300 pages. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 16, 2026

Earth ObservationBeneath the Antarctic ice, a lake the size of Lake Ontario has been sealed off from sunlight for roughly 15 million years, and when Russian drillers finally reached Lake Vostok in 2012 they recovered water teeming with traces of life that had evolved in total darkness. On 5 February 2012, a Russian drill team at Vostok Station punched through the last metres of ice and tapped into a body of water that had been sealed beneath the ice for millions of years. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 16, 2026

Human BehaviourThe single largest political donation in modern US history wasn't a campaign check but a self-built spending machine — America PAC absorbed 239millionaimedatonecandidateElonMuskwiredroughly239 million aimed at one candidate Elon Musk wired roughly 239millionaimedatonecandidateElonMuskwiredroughly239 million into America PAC between July 2024 and Election Day, making it the single largest disclosed political… By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 16, 2026