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September 2026
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Fire Storm
How did a Southeast Asian archipelago, after choking its neighbours in haze for weeks during severe dry seasons, begin plugging a 4,000-kilometre drainage network cut through peat swamps decades earlier by a failed rice scheme?
Tech Space
The Roman Space Telescope is designed to pair a wide field of view with infrared vision sharp enough that its surveys can pick up outer solar system objects, exploding stars and growing black holes while mapping galaxies by the billions
Space Medicine
China's cell and gene therapy trials outside the drug regulator grew 11-fold from 2015 to 2023, reaching 207 before Order 818 took effect in 2026
Farm News
What happened when American plains farmers, after a decade of black blizzards burying houses to the eaves in the 1930s, were paid by a new federal agency to plough along the contours and plant windbreak trees?
Government
Earlier this year France recruited 41 US-based researchers through its Choose France for Science programme, and in August Canada announced 48 more crossing north, as national talent schemes quietly pick off scientists unsettled by US funding cuts
Edible
We tend to think honey spoils like any other food, but sealed jars recovered from Egyptian tombs over 3,000 years old have been reported still edible, preserved by a combination of low water content, natural hydrogen peroxide, and a pH acidic enough to stop bacteria from growing at all
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