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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.
New NOAA and MBARI projects are teaching underwater robots to spot, track, and classify deep-sea animals in real time. With tools like FathomNet, Mesobot, and EyeRIS, ocean science is learning how to notice more life, faster.
Soi Dog Foundation’s hospice foster programme is giving Phuket and Phang Nga residents a practical, deeply caring way to help medically fragile rescue animals. With medical support covered and real dogs already waiting, the story is as much about community tenderness as animal welfare.
From calmer material palettes to reclaimed shell surfaces, 2026 interiors are leaning toward objects with texture, memory, and craft. Thai mother-of-pearl tradition gives that shift a beautiful, practical depth.
NASA and ESA’s new Webb view of NGC 2392 turns a short-lived planetary nebula into one of August’s most joyful space stories: a lion-faced cloud about 5,000 light-years away, shaped by a Sun-like star in its final bright chapter.
Lawa Yai brings together a 15-minute boat ride, white sand, shallow coral, seagrass, and a forest trail with flying foxes — all with the reassuring calm of internationally recognized beach management. Here is why this small Phang Nga Bay island makes such an easy, lovely day out.
Far below the southeastern Indian Ocean, the Diamantina Zone has revealed one of the deepest known whale-fall ecosystems ever recorded. Ancient bones, living brittle stars, and a newly named extinct whale are all part of the same remarkable deep-sea story.
On 12 August 2026, the Moon will sweep a narrow band of totality across Greenland, Iceland, Spain, and a corner of Portugal. With live streams, family-friendly science, and a sunset finale over Europe, this is one of the year’s happiest reasons to look up.
In Kanazawa, one of Japan’s most delicate crafts still lives in steady hands, humid air, and sheets of gold so light they can move with a breath. The result is a city where patience becomes visible — and where visitors can step close enough to feel that craft for themselves.
Phuket’s Dugong Festival 2026 is bringing film, recycled-art workshops, a community beach clean-up, and shoreline learning to Ao Tang Khen Bay on 12 August. It is a warm, easy way to spend time by the sea while learning why dugongs and seagrass matter along Thailand’s Andaman coast.
Astronomers have found a wonderfully intriguing planet candidate called HD 137010 b: just a little larger than Earth, orbiting in about 355 days, and circling a star bright enough for future telescopes to study in detail. The surprise is its climate—it may sit on the chilly outer edge of the habitable zone, receiving only about 29% of the sunlight Earth gets.
This August, blood donation is coming closer to where daily life already happens — from Takua Pa and Thai Mueang to Phuket Town and Patong. With mobile clinics, clear donor rules, and a special need for rare Rh-negative blood, the region is making generosity feel practical and warmly local.
A newly confirmed filament of hot gas in the Shapley Supercluster is turning one of cosmology’s most beautiful ideas into something measurable. By tracing a glowing thread between four galaxy clusters, astronomers have found a vivid piece of the universe’s long-missing ordinary matter.
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