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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 'beachy' cliché is out for 2026 — but the shell itself is having its biggest design moment in decades. Inside the handmade shell panels, coquillage mirrors and warm-wood shift redefining coastal homes.
Using the Very Large Telescope in Chile, a team led by PhD student Kevin Hoy has found strong evidence for a Jupiter-mass moon-like object orbiting a brown dwarf 71 light-years away — the first plausible detection of an exosatellite.
At Phuket Provincial Hall on September 8, officials, businesses and community groups reviewed a draft 2026–2050 roadmap of 19 measures — from clean energy and electric vehicles to greener markets — aiming to cut more than 3.2 million tonnes of CO2-equivalent and reach net-zero by 2050.
The NewMa Asia Massage Championship returns to Prince of Songkla University's Phuket campus on January 22-24, 2027 — 130 competitors, 40+ international judges from 25+ countries, and a medal for Best Empathy.
Four giant Ramayana sculptures — including a six-metre Thotsakan — are in their final month of construction in Phuket before sinking to Siam Bay, Racha Yai, as a coral-friendly underwater art museum.
A new national campaign has chosen the Phuket–Phang Nga coast as a pilot route for meetings-with-adventure travel — and the stars are village mangrove tunnels, GI pineapples, a 'Jurassic World' filming island and one very happy elephant.
For the first time, Hubble and Webb joined forces to find 27 tiny icy worlds beyond Neptune — one just 5 km wide and as faint as fireflies on the Moon. Their colors reveal they still remember how the Solar System was built.
A century ago, a Korean mother-of-pearl wedding wardrobe cost as much as a tiled-roof house. Discover najeonchilgi — the thousand-year shell-inlay craft whose pigment-free rainbow is lighting up 2026 interiors.
A two-centimetre Mediterranean sea snail that gently sips fish blood — using anesthetics, no less — has been voted International Mollusc of the Year 2026, and its full genome is now being sequenced as the prize.
For the first time ever, a giant ten-sided atmospheric wave has appeared around Saturn's south pole — noticed first by two amateur astronomers and confirmed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Everyone watching now is among the first humans to see a planet-sized pattern being born.
For two and a half years, a glowing golden dome found 3,250 metres down in the Gulf of Alaska puzzled NOAA's scientists. The answer, finally revealed, is lovelier than every guess: it was the golden anchor a giant deep-sea anemone left behind.
The French word coquillage simply means seashell — but this season it names the chicest trend in interiors: decorating with shells and shell forms, a craft with centuries of history from European grottos to Barbadian sailors' valentines. Here's why designers love it and five gentle ways to try it at home.
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