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PsychologyAbove 26,000 feet on Mount Everest — in the death zone where the air contains roughly one-third the oxygen of sea level — climate change is melting the ice that has buried more than 200 frozen climbers, and Nepali army teams recovering them in 2024 also removed approximately 11 tonnes of trash, in a quiet revelation that the highest place humans have ever reached is also a slowly emerging landfill For one or two days each spring, the wind pattern at the top of Mount Everest shifts just enough to allow human beings, for a brief and dangerous window, to reach the summit. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 15, 2026

ScienceThe first human trial of a therapy designed to partially reset the biological age of human cells was approved in January 2026 — using molecular switches that scientists have already shown can reverse the aging of cells in the laboratory — meaning humanity has, for the first time, formally entered the era of testing whether cellular aging can be reversed in living people. For about twenty years now, biologists have known that a small number of specific proteins can take a fully-developed adult cell — a skin… By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 15, 2026

PsychologySøren Kierkegaard suggested that the deepest form of despair is not unhappiness but the failure to become the self you were quietly meant to be — a despair so subtle that most people who carry it never notice they are carrying it — and the difficulty of late-life regret is the slow recognition that the person you have been is not quite the person you started out hoping to be Most people who are quietly miserable do not know it. That, in essence, is what a Danish philosopher named Søren Kierkegaard tried to tell… By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 15, 2026

Mind & MeaningNearly four kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice, Russian scientists in 2012 drilled into a hidden lake the size of Lake Ontario that had been sealed away for at least 15 million years — and when the drill broke through, the pressure was so great that the ancient lake water shot up the borehole and froze in place, freezing itself before anyone could touch it. Imagine drilling through ice for 23 years to reach a lake nobody had ever seen, in the coldest place on Earth, in a research station that… By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 15, 2026

ConstellationsIn 1946, a captured German V-2 rocket launched from White Sands carried Clyde Holliday’s 35-millimetre DeVry motion-picture camera above the Kármán line and returned the first photographs of Earth from space on film recovered after the rocket crashed in the New Mexico desert Every photograph of Earth ever taken from space, from Apollo 8's Earthrise to Apollo 17's Blue Marble to Voyager 1's Pale Blue Dot… By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 15, 2026