Self-trust doesn’t show up as a feeling. It shows up as a pattern. Change the pattern with small habits, and your sense of control will follow.
When someone shares something deeply personal, your response matters more than you think. These are two common ways that vulnerability is often mishandled.
In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the booming space industry, better space weather forecasts, the first medical evacuation from space and more.

The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors are pressuring the PJM Interconnection, the biggest electricity market in the US, to hold a power auction meant to spur a massive buildout of new power plants. Together, they’re “urging” PJM to hold an “emergency” auction for companies to procure electricity over 15-year contracts. The unusually […]
A pigment that makes feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells.
If your responses in a disagreement with your partner aren’t aiding resolution, they’re often subtly increasing tension.
Genlisea, or the “corkscrew” carnivorous plant, doesn’t wait above ground to hunt. Here’s how it traps tiny prey right beneath your feet.

Down the street from the Los Angeles Angels’ stadium in Anaheim, a crowd gathers to watch two homes burn. In less than 30 minutes, one structure is reduced to its smoldering, blackened wood frame, while the other, thanks to simple changes to its design, is remarkably unscathed. Of course, this was the point of the […]
The “Joining” seems to connect people via radio waves. Let’s dig into the physics at play.
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is now barreling away from the sun, never to return to the solar system. There’s one more chance for skywatchers to get a close-up.