World
The first egrets of autumn, six days early
At sunrise a thin mist still lies over the shallows of the northern wetland park. At the end of the boardwalk three great egrets stand in ankle-deep water, dipping now and then t…
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Photos
Chasing the light: five skies from coast to ridge
Photographers call the hour after sunrise and the hour before sunset the golden hour. The sun sits close to the horizon, its light has more air to cross, the …
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Business
One night, 400,000 parcels
At ten at night every lamp is burning in the parcel hub behind the port. It is the third day of the autumn shopping festival, and the sorting hall, the size o…
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World
Raise the ground, regrow the reef
On an afternoon in the rainy season the storm clouds stand like a high wall behind the island, yet the sun is still on the reef flat. A short jetty and one sm…
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Sport
One last jump: 8.02 m and a first gold
The city's leg of the athletics open finished its first day yesterday evening at the city sports centre. In the sixth round of the men's long jump final a 22-…
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Gear
The 24-70 mm F2.8: one zoom for the whole room
Every lens range has one zoom that does most of the work, and in this mirrorless line it is the 24-70 mm F2.8. At 24 mm it takes in a whole meeting room; at 7…
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Science
Ninety-six qubits, thirty quiet days
A quantum computing laboratory in the city's new coastal district announced this week that the 96-qubit superconducting processor it developed has run steadil…
Sport
Three days chasing the wind: aboard the bay regatta
A sailing race rarely has a grandstand. The course lies a few kilometres off the coast, and from the shore all you see is a row of small white sails. Last weekend the city's open…
Life
Lace in the pines: two friends, one evening
The two women in this story are not professional models but friends who have known each other for ten years, and the brief we gave them was two words: at ease. The place is a cle…
