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Human BehaviourVenus Williams was diagnosed with Sjögren's syndrome, an autoimmune disease so exhausting she could barely get out of bed — then her sister suggested the dietary change that kept her on tour a decade longer In the late summer of 2011, Venus Williams won her opening match at the US Open and then, two days later, withdrew before the second round. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 14, 2026

ScienceScientists drilling into sediment beneath the South Pacific Gyre pulled up microbes from seabed layers as old as 101.5 million years. Starved in one of the poorest habitats on Earth, many of the cells were still viable: when given nutrients under oxygen-bearing laboratory conditions, they repaired their metabolism, took up carbon and nitrogen, and began to multiply. They are among the oldest microbial communities ever revived from dormancy. In 2020, scientists reported that they had drilled into sediment beneath the South Pacific Gyre and recovered microbes from layers as old as 101.5 million years. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 14, 2026

ScienceIn 2019, BaFin banned short-selling in Wirecard shares for two months and filed criminal complaints against the Financial Times reporters investigating its accounts, the first time Germany’s market regulator had shielded one listed company that way On February 18, 2019, Germany's financial regulator did something it had never done before. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 14, 2026

Human BehaviourRolex is owned by no billionaire or family — a single Geneva charitable foundation has held it since founder Hans Wilsdorf died childless in 1960, making the company effectively impossible to buy Hans Wilsdorf, the German-born watchmaker who founded Rolex in London in the early 1900s and moved it to Geneva after World War I, signed… By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 14, 2026

Human BehaviourUntil 1905, wristwatches were considered women's jewelry — a gentleman who wore a timepiece on his wrist was a punchline, a prejudice one orphaned watch clerk decided to bet against Hans Wilsdorf was working as a clerk at a watch exporter in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, when he made the bet that would build Rolex. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 14, 2026