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Japan's first Setouchi Art and Industry festival (3-31 Oct 2026) turns seven working factories - a 197-year-old salt works, a uniform maker, a battery plant, a denim street - into a dispersed art museum across Okayama and Ehime. Here's what's inside, and how to visit.
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A 32.2-centimetre 'colossogiant' isopod collected in Puerto Rico in the 1980s sat unrecognized in a German university collection for ~40 years — until a student and a curator revealed it as a species new to science, complete with a 15-million-year family history.
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A Danish lamp 3D-printed from restaurant shell waste just won Milan's SaloneSatellite Award 2026, and eggshell-and-nutshell furniture from Egypt's Shell Homage stole the same design week. Inside the year's most delightful home material: compostable, stone-tough, and glowing.
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The results are in from the fourth Phang Nga Coastal Clean Up Challenge: 690 registered volunteers spread across six Khao Lak beaches on 5 October and weighed in 1,868.2 kilogrammes of waste — the biggest edition yet of a tradition that started with a single beach in 2023.
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Beneath an olive grove in southern Italy, ground-penetrating radar and gentle electric currents have found signs of unexplored chambers beside the cave that guards two 20,000-year-old bone figurines — and no one had to dig to find them.
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A speck noticed on a casual 2019 dive off Taiwan has been formally named Thecacera sesama — a sea slug under three millimetres long, the first new Thecacera described in nearly three decades, and named after the word divers themselves use: sesame.
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On 11 October 2026, forty Phuket shrines carried the Nine Emperor Gods through Phuket Town by lantern light — the island's first-ever nighttime procession, and a brand-new tradition you can still catch before the festival closes on 18 October.
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Every sea turtle wears a one-of-a-kind face. In just one year, Khao Lak divers and Andaman Turtle Watch turned 451 holiday snapshots into a living ID database of 92 named turtles — and you can join the next chapter on 20–26 October 2026.
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Vent limpets born in deep-sea darkness travel up to the sunlit upper ocean, ride surface currents to new hydrothermal vents, and the chemistry of their millimetre shells finally proves it — a University of Tokyo team's discovery published in Science Advances.
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A doctoral student opened 27-year-old Hubble data, matched 100 mystery fingerprints to niobium — an element never seen in any white dwarf — and found the best evidence yet for a Jupiter-size world born from its dead star's ashes.
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A gas giant orbiting the white dwarf HS 0209+0832, 250 light-years away in Cetus, appears to be the first planet ever found that formed AFTER its star died — betrayed by niobium, a rare metal 1,000 times richer than in our Sun.
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A three-metre column built from wastewater seaweed and oyster-shell waste is anchoring NGV Melbourne's Plant Life exhibition — proof that dinner-plate leftovers can become real architecture.
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A bronze signet ring engraved with the Lighthouse of Alexandria — the first of its kind ever found — has been recovered from the sunken royal palace island of Antirhodos, and it was found in the very offices that once administered the ancient Wonder.
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