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- Beethoven or a kingfisher? Europeans get a say on the next euro banknotesThe ECB has shortlisted ten designs across two themes and opened a survey until 21 September, ahead of the first full redesign of the currency since 2002.
- Indonesia's fishing crews gain a legal floor as it ratifies ILO Convention 188The treaty sets minimum standards on pay, contracts, rest, safety and medical care for a workforce long governed by commercial shipping law – with one year to make them work.
- Danube 2850: an entire river is being measured for microplastic for the first timeFrom Donaueschingen to the Black Sea, a Wasser 3.0 team is taking more than 250 samples – accompanied by an endurance swimmer attempting the whole river.
- Africa's fire season is shrinking – because the rain stops laterA study in Geophysical Research Letters shows that the timing of rainfall, not its total, explains why less land has burned across the continent for two decades.
- Priced out of the Premier League, fans rediscover football's local rootsAs top-flight ticket prices climb, supporters are flocking to community clubs like fast-rising Real Bedford — cheaper, closer and more personal.
- Starship's gentlest ocean landing yet marks progress toward a reusable megarocketSpaceX's upper stage splashed down intact in the Indian Ocean on its 13th test flight, giving engineers their first clear look at a returned heat shield.
- Nature's air conditioning: how allotments and urban green cool the heatSatellite data show how strongly near-natural green spaces cool their surroundings — and why allotment gardens matter more to city planning.
- Scientists find a hidden waste-clearance system at the back of the eyeA previously unknown lymphatic network in the retina could become a target against leading causes of blindness, researchers report.
- Bespoke gene therapy tames severe epilepsy in two children – and helps one walkTreatments custom-built for each boy's exact mutation cut seizures sharply over two years, with one teenager taking his first independent steps.
- A third kind of magnet: Europe's top physics prize honours the discovery of altermagnetismThe 2026 Europhysics Prize goes to three researchers whose work added a wholly new branch to a field physicists thought was settled a century ago.
- Cosmic bloodhounds: radio bursts track down the universe's missing matterUsing thousands of radio bursts, an MIT team has located ordinary matter that had long eluded astronomers – spread around galaxies in vast, thin clouds.
- A fox with a head for numbers: researchers name a Maya astronomer for the first timeIn a painted chamber of the Guatemalan ruined city of Xultun, scholars have deciphered a reckoner's signature – for the first time ever, a Maya scholar can be named.
- The Hum heard worldwide is most likely coming from inside the earAfter ruling out exceptional hearing and inner-ear emissions, researchers conclude the decades-old mystery noise is a low-frequency form of tinnitus.
- Why a star Ptolemy called brilliant is now barely noticeableResearchers argue Theta Eridani really did shine ten times brighter for a millennium, and trace it to mass flowing between two stars locked in a very tight orbit.
- Ryan Fox wins the Open Championship with a birdie at the lastThe 39-year-old New Zealander takes his first major at Royal Birkdale – three days after a record round of 62.
- Five Przewalski's horses reclaim the Kazakh steppeAfter surviving a winter in an acclimatisation enclosure, the wild horses are free – the second year running of an international reintroduction.
- Beavers are quietly engineering the coast — and salmon may benefitA new survey finds North America's dam-builders thriving in tidal estuaries, packing channels with dams twice as densely as inland rivers.
- A universe in a bottle: a student's stardust could illuminate how life beganWith little more than gas and a 10,000-volt spark, a Sydney PhD candidate has recreated the cosmic dust that may have carried life's chemistry across space.
- An end to shredding new clothes: the EU bans large retailers from binning unsold fashionSince 19 July, big companies may no longer destroy unsold clothing and shoes — a move against resource waste that experts welcome and scrutinise in equal measure.
- Nearly 100,000 new swim badges: Germany is training more confident swimmers againGermany's life saving society reports one of its strongest teaching years in two decades for 2025 — driven by gains at silver and gold.
- NASA's Psyche probe slingshots past Mars toward a metal worldA gravity assist on 15 May bent the spacecraft's path toward asteroid Psyche — and returned a striking time-lapse of the Red Planet.
- Josh Kerr runs 3:42.66 to break the mile's 27-year recordThe British runner became the first man under 3:43, ending Hicham El Guerrouj's reign from 1999.
- Bank of England shuts coal-linked bonds out of its lendingFrom 31 October, debt tied to thermal coal will no longer count as collateral when banks borrow from the UK central bank.
- German trades buck the downturn with more apprenticesAlmost 67,800 new apprenticeship contracts were signed from January to June – up 4.9 percent, the strongest June since 2018.