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World Space Week 2025 casts a lens on life in space — here, we take a look at how astronauts traveling beyond Earth can affect their families.

Unfair or pointless work tasks are driving more employees to mentally check out, turning to the internet to cope with stress, sleepless nights, and next-day burnout, new research shows.

We’re not the only ones who see a baboon in this nebula photo, right?

A new Journal of Marketing study sheds light on how family size drives differences in education spending. Conducted by researchers Phyllis Xue Wang (Renmin University of China), Ce Liang (City University of Hong Kong), and Qiyuan Wang (Hong Kong Polytechnic…

“In a sense, you listen to every person with different ears, because everyone speaks differently,” says Orhun Uluşahin, who will defend his dissertation at Radboud University on October 17. His research shows that our brains adapt rapidly to a speaker…

SpaceX moved its Super Heavy booster to the pad recently to gear up for Flight 11 of its Starship megarocket, which is scheduled for Oct. 13.

Just four minutes of darkness was enough to confuse dozens of species of birds.

Withdrawing the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), once a fringe idea, has become a defining issue for political parties. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who previously opposed leaving, has now said the Conservatives will take the UK…

The most famous portrait of Marie Antoinette as a child is really of her sister, according to new research. Catriona Seth, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature and Fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of…

It’s not too late to hop aboard the alien mothership for the sensational Apple TV+ sci-fi series.