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Paradise in Gridlock: Phuket’s traffic and the Science of Smarter Cities

Phuket Life / Science

Saturday 2 August 2025 01:00 PM

It’s 8am on a muggy Tuesday and I’m sitting in traffic on Phuket’s Chaofa West Road, barely inching. As most of you know, this is the daily norm – worse in the rainy season and worse still during the school run. So, I started thinking: how did this tropical paradise – known for its beaches and serenity – end up with a rush hour that feels like downtown Bangkok? And more importantly, what could science do about it?

Are we alone? Exploring the Cosmic Silence

Phuket Life / Science

Saturday 31 May 2025 01:00 PM

Look West from Promthep Cape on a clear Phuket night (on the rare nights that might be possible!) and the Milky Way stretches overhead like a fistful of sea-salt flung across black velvet. The sight is beautiful, humbling - and, if you think about it, slightly cheeky. With two hundred billion stars up there, surely someone ought to have switched on the cosmic porch light or at least sent the Earth a “hiya” text by now. But decade after decade our best telescopes remain stubbornly free of interstellar selfies.

The Space Rock that missed us... but might sock the Moon

Phuket Life / Science

Saturday 3 May 2025 01:00 PM

Once upon a starlit evening in December 2024, astronomers discovered something small, fast and potentially very rude hurtling through our solar neighbourhood. They named it Asteroid 2024 YR4 - because apparently “Doom Pebble” didn’t make it past the naming committee.

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