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October 2026

28 posts

• 29 Oct The red line Takaichi crossed: a year of fallout from her Taiwan remarks
• 28 Oct The first term away from home
• 27 Oct Dengue vaccine reaches the wet season
• 26 Oct 'Declining' Chinese language: what happened to our language?
• 25 Oct The Louvre closed early: France's second weekend of protest

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September 2026

22 posts

• 30 Sep Noticing the days draw shorter
• 29 Sep GPT-6.1 Sol brings flagship reasoning at half the price
• 27 Sep A thawed slope turns a tremor into a landslide
• 26 Sep Harvest that the satellites counted
• 24 Sep Guterres asks countries to quit fossil fuels on a timetable

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August 2026

24 posts

• 31 Aug Bread and candles the night before the typhoon
• 30 Aug A laser link now crosses the gap between Earth and the Moon
• 28 Aug A tandem solar cell crosses twenty-eight per cent
• 27 Aug Apple's M6 chip arrives on a two-nanometre process
• 26 Aug Pushing the immune system to make broad antibodies fast

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July 2026

25 posts

• 28 Jul Electricity bill and the price of cool
• 27 Jul A six-year-old died in a brain gene-editing trial. A Shanghai medical school is investigating
• 26 Jul A hydrogen bond that reaches across eleven carbons to set chirality
• 25 Jul The post-pandemic classroom: what the data finally shows
• 24 Jul China's next moon mission is nearly ready to fly

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June 2026

24 posts

• 30 Jun Half-year report card for the oceans
• 28 Jun OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, a model aimed at the hardest work
• 27 Jun Cicadas, and the attention they take back
• 25 Jun China's summer forum returns to the coast
• 24 Jun Webb finds a world that rains glass

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May 2026

21 posts

• 31 May The space station samples that came home in May
• 30 May First mosquito evenings of the new summer
• 28 May A malaria vaccine reaches the forest villages
• 27 May A synapse on a chip switches a million times lighter
• 25 May Europe's launchers come back in stages

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April 2026

23 posts

• 30 Apr Testing models at the frontier of human knowledge: Humanity's Last Exam
• 29 Apr GPT-5.5 makes agents the product
• 26 Apr Guyu and the first sowing
• 24 Apr Are we pushing ourselves too hard?
• 23 Apr A light-induced gap finally opens in graphene

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March 2026

22 posts

• 31 Mar A commercial rocket's first flight, a new road to orbit
• 30 Mar LHAASO measures the cosmic-ray knee one element at a time
• 29 Mar March was the month AI stopped being just models
• 26 Mar Two Sessions puts AI inside the work report
• 26 Mar Webb directly images a young giant next to its star

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February 2026

23 posts

• 28 Feb Gamble that cost a president: from martial law to trial in South Korea
• 27 Feb Rice that survives the flood: a quiet Green Revolution
• 26 Feb Milano Cortina closes on a high-tech note
• 25 Feb Cortina to Milan: a Winter Games that tested a dispersed model
• 24 Feb Photonics and wireless converge at 512 Gbps

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January 2026

22 posts

• 31 Jan Quantum sensor network listening for dark matter walls
• 30 Jan Banking year starts with a balance sheet warning
• 29 Jan The moon's newest visitor: a lander that listens
• 28 Jan A school for interstellar navigation
• 25 Jan Flu season that quietly disappeared

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