Sep 20, 2026 | Journal
On 12 September 2026, Complex posted a thirty-second NOAA clip that did what clips from the deep usually fail to do: it registered instantly. A bright yellow sponge sat next to a pink sea star on the abyssal mud, two kilometres down on Retriever Seamount — a submarine...
Sep 19, 2026 | Journal
The Whydah Gally was a slave ship that became a pirate ship that became a 1717 shipwreck off Cape Cod that became, in March 2026, the closest thing we will ever get to a witness in a 300-year-old argument about West African metalwork. Twenty-seven Akan gold pieces...
Sep 18, 2026 | Journal
A month ago this column looked at MoM-BH\-1, the single object that a team led by Rohan Naidu (MIT / University of Hawaiʻi) had just named in the pages of Nature* on 12 August 2026, and noted that the field had not picked a side about what JWST's Little Red Dots...
Sep 17, 2026 | Journal
On 1 September 2026 a consortium called CHELSA — the Committee of Higher Education Libraries of South Africa — formally joined the CLOCKSS community, and a new CLOCKSS archival node came online in South Africa. CHELSA represents 26 South African academic and research...
Sep 16, 2026 | Journal
The number worth sitting with is 347. That is how many people from 36 countries sat in Bengaluru, India, between 2 and 6 February 2026, and produced the document that landed on 15 May: the Bengaluru Roadmap and Action Plan on Diamond Open Access. It is the operational...
