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World
Another summer, another record
The season's headline number arrived in late August: one of the warmest summers on record, by a margin that surprised even the forecasters who had predicted i…
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World
Trade talks go hybrid
The conference room had been rebuilt for the occasion. A video wall replaced the far end of the table, the seating was thinned out, and the flags of the absen…
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World
The night shift that keeps a city moving
The baton glows red, the reflective vest catches the headlights, and for eight hours this junction belongs to one person. Night-shift traffic duty is not glam…
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World
Eight thousand readers a day at the new library
At half past eight in the morning the low sun comes through the whole east wall of glass and falls across the long oak tables of the reading hall on level two…
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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, di…
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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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Science
Five places to watch Saturday's supermoon
On Saturday evening the largest full moon of the year will rise from the sea to the east of the city. The city's amateur astronomers' association and the city…
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Science
From swab to sequence
Every sample that enters the lab arrives in a sealed, labelled bag with a barcode that will follow it for the rest of its life. Scan, log, refrigerate: the ro…
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Science
Found by ear: three years to a new tree frog
The office of the city nature reserve reported this week that a survey team has found a tree frog never before described, in a stream valley 900 metres up in …
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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…
