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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.
In Khao Lak, the monsoon season that once emptied the beaches is now filling them with surfers. Handcrafted Paulownia-wood boards from The Board Factory, a growing community of wave-riders of all ages, and Memories Beach's gentle breaks are turning Phang Nga's green season into a surf-village awakening.
Comet 3I/ATLAS sailed through our solar system carrying ice laid down 10 to 12 billion years ago — nearly three times the age of the Sun. The James Webb Space Telescope just read its chemical diary, and it tells a story older than everything you have ever known.
Every June, Kapong District in Phang Nga cracks open its signature Salika durian — a GI-registered fruit with a century of history and a creamy flavour found nowhere else. The 2026 festival brings orchard visits, a durian buffet, and a taste of Andaman coast fruit tourism.
A single expedition off Brazil discovered more than thirty species never seen before — in just fourteen days. The secret? A squid microscope, laser scanners, and onboard DNA sequencing that turned decades of waiting into days of wonder.
A leatherback sea turtle nicknamed Mae Namo has laid her sixth nest of the season on a Phang Nga beach — a remarkable milestone for Thailand's most endangered sea turtle, and a testament to the coastline's growing culture of care.
The shimmering interior of a seashell is made of the same mineral as chalk — yet 3,000 times tougher. Discover how oysters engineer mother-of-pearl, and meet Pinctada phuketensis, a pearl oyster species found right on Phuket's Andaman coast.
Forget the dry-season crowds. From June to October, the Andaman coast turns vivid green, Phang Nga Bay stays calm enough for kayaking, waterfalls roar at full flow, and the afternoon light becomes a photographer's dream. Here is your practical guide to Thailand's most rewarding — and most misunderstood — season.
Japan's MMX spacecraft has reached its launch pad — ready to fly to Mars, land on the moon Phobos, and bring a piece of it home. It may solve a puzzle that has baffled scientists for fifty years.
Saturn's hazy moon Titan and icy dwarf planet Pluto have nothing in common — except a 5.11-micrometer fingerprint that no lab on Earth can explain yet. The James Webb Space Telescope just made it even more fascinating.
A landmark June 2026 study in the journal Science confirms what Andaman coast communities already knew: mangrove forests are coming back. After four decades of satellite tracking, the global trend has reversed — and Phang Nga Bay is living proof.
Inside the sea caves of Koh Panak, a single paddle stroke sets the water ablaze with electric blue light. The source is not magic — it's billions of tiny organisms performing one of nature's oldest chemical tricks.
The Ocean Census has just announced the discovery of 1,121 previously unknown marine species — including a prehistoric ghost shark and a worm living inside a glass sponge. With up to 90% of ocean life still undiscovered, the Andaman Sea holds secrets of its own.
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