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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.
On Friday, September 25, 2026, the Mid-Autumn Festival fills Phuket Old Town with lantern light, mooncake boxes and the Thai tradition of moon worship — here is how to wander it well, and why the pastry means family.
French for 'seashell', coquillage is the centuries-old craft of decorating with real shells — and in 2026, House Beautiful, Elle Decor and Real Simple all agree it's the chic, craft-first way to bring the coast home. Designers, palettes and how to start.
NASA's Perseverance rover found the opposite of what it expected at Jezero Crater — volcanic stone instead of lake sediment — and that surprise revealed at least three separate ancient water systems on Mars: groundwater, a lake, and hot mineral fluids.
Archaeologists clearing debris to protect old tombs from flash floods near Luxor stumbled upon a forgotten 3,000-year-old tomb — its vivid paintings of an official named Paser, his wife, and an offering table of bread, beer and flowers survived untouched under a layer of dust.
Booking.com's 2026 Traveller Review Awards — built on more than 370 million verified guest reviews — ranked Phang Nga the 7th Most Welcoming Region on Earth, the only one in Thailand and Southeast Asia. Here's the everyday coastal warmth behind the number.
A new deep-sea coral species from the Nazca Ridge carries chitin — the stuff of crab shells and butterfly wings — hidden in its tissue. It's the first chitin ever found in an octocoral, and it explains how boneless corals grow 10 metres tall.
Thailand's new 10+10 MICE Adventure campaign has picked a Phuket–Phang Nga pilot route — Samet Nangshe sunrise, mangrove-tunnel kayaking at Ban Sam Chong Nuea, and pineapple jam at Ban Bang Rong. Here is how to copy the exact two-day itinerary yourself.
A new PNAS study read 540 million years of mollusk history and found that nearly half of all major shell inventions appeared in the first 96 million years — then evolution switched to perfecting old ideas. Your shell collection is the proof.
In spring 2024, something the size of a small building struck the Moon with no witness — until NASA's patient orbiter revealed McGetchin, a fresh 222-metre crater that is the largest ever identified in the solar system, ringed by a mysterious cold zone about 6 kilometres wide.
On 21–22 November 2026, OCEANMAN — the global open-water swimming series — returns to Bang Sak Beach, Khao Lak: five races from a 500m kids' swim to a 10km dawn marathon in 28°C water, plus a Saturday night of Thai local food on the sand.
One Thai master could cut just 30–35 pieces of shell a day, yet temple doors have glowed with mother-of-pearl constellations for centuries. UNESCO honoured the craft in 2023 — and now modern nacre veneer is bringing the shimmer home.
A coral reef off Benin that 1960s surveys presumed dead has been found alive and well more than 50 metres down — eight coral types, eight fish species, and possibly a 40-kilometre reef line still waiting to be explored.
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