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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.
A house-cat-sized feline rescued in Bolivia's cloud forest has been revealed as Leopardus tilcayo — the first new wild cat species formally named in over a century, and the key that quietly unlocked a five-species family tree.
A new ghost-white deep-sea coral from the Nazca Ridge builds a tree-sized colony out of grains of sand — and its tissues just revealed chitin, the hidden glue that solves a mystery dating back to 1887.
While Maya Bay sat closed, researchers counted a record 278 blacktip reef sharks in its shallows — proof the annual two-month rest works. Here's how to visit the bay when it reopens October 1, 2026.
Thailand's new 10+10 MICE Adventure campaign has turned the Phuket-Phang Nga route into a tested two-day trip of sunrise viewpoints, mangrove-tunnel kayaking, mud-crab releases, GI pineapple jam and elephant care — and you can borrow it wholesale.
For thirty years, volunteers and villagers on Phang Nga's Koh Phra Thong have walked one of Thailand's longest wild beaches each dawn, reading turtle tracks in the sand — and the 2024–25 season brought their reward: more nests than the year before.
Astronomers have confirmed Elias 2-24 b, the youngest planet ever found — a Jupiter-sized world less than one million years old, still gathering gas and dust from its star's disk 450 light-years away. The discovery came from decade-old Keck telescope data and hints that planets can form far faster than we thought.
One year after Thailand's first leopard shark rewilding releases, seven spotted sharks — from Similan to Hope — are being tracked across Phang Nga Bay by shark nannies, 20 underwater listeners and everyday photo-snapping divers.
Saturn is at its closest and brightest of 2026 — and Hubble has just confirmed a brand-new ten-sided cloud pattern forming around its south pole, the first of its kind ever seen there.
From 10–18 October 2026, Phuket's Nine Emperor Gods Festival turns the island into nine days of yellow flags, dawn crullers and shrine-lit evenings — here's how to enjoy it like a local, from Ranong Road to Kathu Shrine.
On the remote Kerguelen Islands, DNA has revealed a brand-new penguin species — the southeastern gentoo, Pygoscelis kerguelensis — and settled a 100-year debate by splitting the gentoo penguin into four distinct species.
On the grey limestone of Montenegro's Durmitor mountains, citizen scientists have described two snails new to science — Cochlostoma komarnica and Cochlostoma dobrido — each carrying a tiny circular door that seals its shell shut.
Japan's 2026 koyo forecast is out: high temperatures mean the foliage front will peak later than usual — stretching the season of red maples and golden ginkgo from Hokkaido in late September all the way to Kyoto on December 11. Here's how to read the dates like a local.
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