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August 2026

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August 28th
- Good and soon-to-be gone: Vegetables are rapidly disappearing
- Up in smoke: why the Cuban cigar is under threat
August 26th
- ‘Object with no comparison’: first black hole star discovered
- No. 10: Full Confidence – could you last longer than the PM?
August 25th
- Antarctica’s melting ice is leaking mercury
August 23rd
- Morocco’s attempt to rebrand Western Sahara
August 19th
- Moroccans are wary of France’s new anti-telemarketing law
August 18th
- Bangladesh’s long battle against yaba pills
August 17th
- Stuck ships in the Strait of Hormuz could be a marine superspreader threat
- ‘Breakthrough’ in ‘brutal’ case of Mexican students who disappeared
August 13th
- Malta’s moment in the cinema spotlight
August 12th
- The total solar eclipse could reveal more about the sun
August 11th
- Africa’s blueberry boom
August 10th
- Archaeologists reveal ‘lost’ civilisation in the Amazon
August 7th
- AI companies are destroying rare books
August 6th
- ‘Living plastic’ can break down in just 6 days
August 5th
- Watching too much TV may be linked to a smaller brain volume
August 4th
- ‘Bra doping’ at the women’s Tour de France
- Microplastics may be affecting cardiovascular health
August 3rd
- Artificial sweeteners might make you lose your memory
- South Korea’s shrinking gender booze gap

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