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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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I'm Shrimp Farm 5 in Takua Pa, Phang Nga has become one of Thailand's first farms certified to the new ASC Farm Standard — recycling its water across 11 ponds and producing up to 900 tonnes of whiteleg shrimp a year, with pride rooted in daily care rather than the certificate itself.
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A millisecond flash from 3 billion years after the Big Bang just set the record as the farthest fast radio burst ever traced — and the tiny young galaxy Webb found at its source points the finger at a magnetar.
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A record typhoon wave shrank from 0.9 metres to 0.36 metres crossing a single football field of mangroves — and two new studies (Nature + Climate Risk Management) have turned the mangrove sea-wall from folk wisdom into measurable, plannable science.
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Half a kilometre down off Costa Rica, metre-tall yellow coral trees rise from seafloors carpeted with brittle stars — so distinct that science had to invent a new family, Laurinqueidae, and name it in Tolkien's Elvish.
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On 3 October 2026, Chulalongkorn University researchers formally described two new limestone-karst snails — Siamochlamys isanensis and S. lannaensis — doubling their genus to five species, all found in Thailand and nowhere else on Earth.
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The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics went to Francis Halzen and IceCube — a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice, buried 2.5 kilometres under the South Pole, that turns flashes of blue light into a brand-new map of the universe.
The Draconid meteor shower peaks tonight, October 8–9, 2026 — and unlike most showers, its radiant is highest at nightfall, so you watch it after dinner, not at 3am. Dark moonless skies, a dragon constellation, and a comet that once produced thousand-meteor storms.
A five-year EU research project just proved the ocean works like a medicine cabinet: scientists analysed 1,200+ marine microbe strains, ran 160,000 tests, and advanced five promising new compounds — grown in labs by fermentation, no reef-harvesting required.
Siam Piwat — the name behind Siam Paragon and ICONSIAM — has unveiled ICONPHUKET, a THB 10 billion destination in Thalang opening in 2029: its first major project outside Bangkok in 67 years, with 40% green space and a stage for makers from all 14 southern provinces.
A two-week taxonomy workshop in Buenos Aires has confirmed 57 new marine species — including Loki, a horned sea cucumber named for the Norse trickster god — from a South Atlantic canyon twice as deep as the Grand Canyon.
A century-old museum sponge just gave up its secret: ten new species of one-headed, tree-bodied branching worms — and an entirely new genus — revealed by DNA from specimens that waited in drawers since 1914.
Trinity College Dublin scientists have discovered that a discarded oyster shell can capture up to 1.5 grams of rare earth metals per gram of shell — locking wind-turbine and smartphone metals into stable crystals and turning seafood waste into a water-cleaning material.
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