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PsychologyThe Stoic philosopher Seneca observed that what makes a person genuinely happy is not how much they have, but how little they need to be content — and the small jolt of his observation, two thousand years later, is that most modern definitions of the good life are still organized around acquiring more of exactly the things he warned would never quite settle the longing they were meant to satisfy If you had to summarise Seneca's most uncomfortable observation in a single sentence, it would be this: most of what you are spending your life trying to acquire is not actually going to satisfy you when you get it. Latest
Human BehaviourA Mediterranean diet rich in vegetables, fish, and olive oil reduces dementia risk even in people carrying two copies of the APOE4 gene variant — which raises Alzheimer's risk 12-fold — according to a 2025 Harvard study in Nature Medicine, in the first finding that a daily food pattern can partially overcome a genetic predisposition long thought to be inescapable For people who carry two copies of the APOE4 gene, the message from clinical medicine over the past three decades has been blunt: your risk… By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 16, 2026 
PsychologyThe marshmallow test, redone with ten times as many children, found that a four-year-old's willpower mostly stopped predicting teenage success once family background was taken into account The marshmallow test is one of the most repeated stories in popular psychology. A small child is left alone with a treat and told that waiting will earn a second one. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 16, 2026 
ScienceThe hundreds of skeletons in a frozen Himalayan lake were blamed on one ancient disaster, until DNA showed some of the dead came from the eastern Mediterranean and died about a thousand years apart Roopkund Lake sits more than 5,000 metres up in the Indian Himalayas, a shallow body of meltwater that stays frozen for much of the year. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 15, 2026 
Space IndustryThe International Space Station orbits Earth roughly every 90 minutes, yet for years no American spacecraft could reach it — a gap a single private company stepped in to close On July 8, 2011, Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on STS-135 carrying four astronauts and a logistics module… By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 15, 2026 
AerospaceNASA still has no American-built way to reach the International Space Station except SpaceX's Dragon capsule — a dependency that has lasted years and shows no sign of ending soon When Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams finally splashed down off the Florida panhandle in late March 2025 after more than nine months on the International Space Station, they came home inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 15, 2026 What’s up in
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