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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.
The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush and destroyer USS Delbert D. Black anchored off Phuket on 4 October with more than 5,100 personnel — the crew's first port call since March. Six days of boat rides ashore, temple visits, food stalls and a friendly US-Thailand football match are underway.
While Phuket's famous festival grabs the headlines, Phang Nga has been quietly polishing its shrine brass since Sunday — nine days of white clothes, free jay food and lantern light run 10–18 October 2026 across the province.
A spearhead-shaped particle smaller than a bacterium, lifted from North Atlantic seafloor mud, carries a tornado-shaped magnetic vortex — the earliest direct evidence that ocean animals navigated by Earth's magnetic field 97 million years ago. The prime suspect for its maker: an eel.
The fish behind the world's sea-serpent legends has been hiding a mechanical marvel in its fin: hundreds of independently rotating, ball-and-socket fin rays that work like tiny joysticks. A Cornell team just described it for the first time.
After five months of monsoon rest, Phang Nga's two great marine parks open their 2026–27 season on Thursday, 15 October — with e-tickets, a 3,850-a-day welcome list and freshly recovered reefs.
At restaurants a hundred miles inland, shucked oyster shells are now riding back to the coast, curing in the sun for six months, and becoming homes for baby oysters — and a new 2026 review says old shells can even clean aquaculture water.
A new Scientific Reports study zapped 15 rare blue and green bivalve shells with laser light and found that ten green ones contain no detectable pigment at all — their colour may be pure light architecture, while blue shells recolour pigments from their dinner.
Two new sea spider species — one with hairy feet and red eyes, one named for the sound of crashing waves — have just been described from the Salish Sea, the first new sea spiders formally named there in almost a century.
Phang Nga's quietest forest waterfall is having its moment — a fresh invitation from the province, pools full of pla phluang fish, and an October bloom of Rafflesia kerrii, a flower the size of a bicycle wheel.
Rock cores drilled decades ago and stored in Darwin, Australia held more than 12,000 fossils of 1.75-billion-year-old eukaryotes — and they reveal that Earth's first complex life survived only where the ancient sea had oxygen, setting a minimum date for mitochondria and explaining life's billion-year pause.
On Monday, 5 October 2026, the Phang Nga Coastal Clean Up Challenge returns to Khao Lak bigger than ever — six beach locations, free entry, and a community that removed 1,752 kg of waste in just two hours last year. Here's how to join.
Amateur astronomer Joël Lapointe was planning a camping trip on satellite maps when he spotted a perfect circle near Lake Marsal, Quebec — now confirmed as Uhackatik, a 25-kilometre impact crater 390 million years old, named with the Innu Council of Ekuanitshit.
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