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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?

After the 2015 haze crisis, Indonesia began plugging thousands of drainage canals cut through Borneo's peat swamps for Suharto's failed Mega Rice Project — a decade-long, hand-built effort to raise water tables and stop the smouldering fires that choke Southeast Asia each dry season.

By Space Mart Editorial Team · Sep 10, 2026

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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

France recruited 41 US-based researchers through its Choose France for Science programme this year, and Canada added 48 more in August, as national talent schemes quietly draw scientists away from an American research system rattled by funding cuts and visa volatility.

By Space Mart Editorial Team · Sep 7, 2026
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

Sealed honey pots recovered from Egyptian tombs have been reported edible after 3,000 years — and the chemistry that makes it possible, from bee-added enzymes to water activity below 0.6, still shapes how modern food scientists and mānuka producers think about preservation.

By Space Mart Editorial Team · Sep 1, 2026
Physics News

In 1665, Robert Hooke sliced a paper-thin sliver of cork, held it under a compound microscope of his own design, and saw rows of tiny empty compartments that reminded him of monks' quarters, giving biology the word 'cell' 174 years before anyone worked out what was actually inside one

How a Royal Society polymath, a leather-tubed microscope, and a sliver of dead bark gave biology its most fundamental word — and why it took 174 years to figure out what was actually inside a living one.

By Space Mart Editorial Team · Aug 27, 2026
Tech Space

Why does removing rats and stoats from a scatter of small offshore islands bring back flightless parrots and ground-nesting seabirds that had not bred on the mainland for over a century?

New Zealand's kākāpō population has climbed from 50 birds in the 1990s to over 200 today, entirely because rats, stoats and cats have been eradicated from three small offshore islands — Whenua Hou, Anchor and Chalky. Here's how removing one pressure lets an 80-million-year-old ecosystem reassemble itself.

By Space Mart Editorial Team · Aug 26, 2026

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