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- Seaweed coating keeps strawberries mould-free for four days without refrigerationResearchers at the University of British Columbia combined agar, zinc and tannic acid into a self-assembling edible film; in tests published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry it roughly doubled shelf life and cut water loss from 30 to 13 percent.
- Australia passes 500,000 subsidised home batteries in 13 monthsPrime Minister Anthony Albanese and Energy Minister Chris Bowen announced 507,000 installations in Sydney on 14 August 2026, crediting the 30 percent subsidy with a 47 percent fall in wholesale electricity prices.
- Kassel sends 1,400 second-graders to the pool for a full weekIn the "Kasseler Welle" project run by the city and its university, primary school children practise water skills for 90 minutes a day at the Auebad pool; more than 8,000 are due to take part by 2030.
- Agyekum wins Germany's first European 400m hurdles medal since 1986The Berlin runner clocked 47.87 seconds at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham on 14 August 2026, beaten only by Norway's world record holder Karsten Warholm.
- Six volunteers end 100 days of isolation in a Cologne space labThe crew of the ESA study SOLIS100 left the German Aerospace Center's :envihab facility on 1 August 2026, and 23 research teams are now analysing data on health, performance and group cohesion.
- Physicists find a woven pattern inside a crystalAs the ferroelectric crystal KTN:Li cools, its electric dipoles arrange themselves into a three-dimensional weave, a team from Rome, Tianjin and Jerusalem reports in the journal Light: Science & Applications.
- Taiwan recognises the Siraya as its 17th Indigenous groupThe cabinet granted the status on 30 July 2026, making the Siraya of Tainan the first lowland Pingpu people to gain legal recognition under an act the legislature passed on 17 October 2025.
- Total eclipse darkens northern Spain for the first time since 1905The moon's shadow crossed Siberia, Greenland, Iceland and Spain on 12 August 2026, and more than 15 million people live inside the narrow band where the sun vanished completely, Smithsonian magazine reports.
- Andy Green sets a hydrogen world speed record at 406.320mph in UtahThe 64-year-old retired RAF pilot averaged 406.320mph over two runs at the Bonneville Salt Flats on 11 August, more than doubling the previous mark for a hydrogen combustion car.
- Britain takes £250 a year off energy bills for homes near new pylonsHouseholds within 500 metres of new transmission lines at 43 projects across Britain will receive £125 twice a year for a decade, with the first payments due in the first half of 2027.
- Climbing plants grow into a shade canopy over a Frankfurt concrete squareAs part of World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026, the CARLO installation covers Carlo-Schmid-Platz in Bockenheim with almost 20 species of climbing plant; hammocks, swings and wooden platforms are free to use.
- Total solar eclipse crosses northern Spain on 12 AugustThe moon's core shadow runs over Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain on the evening of 12 August; in Germany the moon covers 88 to 90 percent of the solar disc, according to wissenschaft.de.
- Fires burned 3.1 million hectares of the Brazilian Amazon in 2025, the least since 1985The annual report of the monitoring network MapBiomas puts the burned area in the Brazilian Amazon about 80 per cent below 2024; nationwide 12.7 million hectares burned.
- Snails mix five different slimes from almost the same building blocksA team at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam reports in the journal Science that the brown-lipped snail varies protein and calcium content to produce a lubricant, an adhesive and a mineralised seal.
- Archaeologists recover a 2.2-metre Lydian statue from under a Roman street in SardisTurkey's culture ministry announced the find on 4 August 2026: a marble youth carved between 470 and 450 BC and preserved because Roman builders laid him face down as paving.
- Kazakhstan releases a tiger into the wild for the first time since 1948Specialists set the Amur tigress Umit loose in the unfenced Ile-Balkhash reserve on 31 July, ten years after the country began rebuilding the forest and the prey animals a tiger needs.
- Ellwangen builds a district that holds rainwater for up to five yearsOn the site of the former Reinhardt barracks, a quarter for some 2,000 people is to become what the town calls the first sponge city without rainwater run-off, with project management in the hands of LBBW Immobilien's Kommunalentwicklung GmbH.
- Local rangers cut illegal fishing by 80 percent along Türkiye's Mediterranean coastSix community-managed marine protected areas now cover about 40,000 hectares between Gökova Bay and Cape Gelidonya, built up since 2019 with a three-million-dollar grant from the Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme.
- NASA's Perseverance rover photographs Earth vanishing behind Phobos for the first time from MarsThe rover recorded a sequence of images from the rim of Jezero Crater on 2 July 2026 in which the Martian moon Phobos covers Earth, then 314 million kilometres away, for a few seconds.
- AI model forecasts tropical cyclones a day earlier than the best operational systemsGoogle DeepMind's WeatherNext Cyclones, tested on storms from 2023 to 2025 in a study published in Nature, delivers about a day of extra warning on a storm's track, strength and size.
- The Louvre sends 26 Islamic masterpieces to WashingtonThe Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art shows the loan from 26 September to 18 January 2027, its only venue, including a bronze lion from Islamic Spain never before displayed in the United States.
- Inouye telescope reveals plasma whirlpools on the sun for the first timeImages published in Nature on 5 August resolve solar structures under 20 kilometres wide beside a sunspot, and researchers at the US National Solar Observatory say the swirls may explain the corona's millions of degrees.
- Four Hamburg groups build Germany's first estate platform for homeless peopleIn the "Straßennachlass" project, homeless people store documents, final wishes and messages digitally; a chipped wristband leads emergency crews to their named person of trust.
- German industry takes 3.1 percent more orders in JuneThe Federal Statistical Office reported the second monthly gain in a row on 6 August, driven by mechanical engineering (+12.7 percent) and electronics (+22.7 percent), well above what economists had forecast.