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At Virton Academy, what role do parents have on the touchline?Cheering, notifying the club of an absence and contacting the right people: the charter published in 2025 describes a supportive role that leaves sporting decisions to the coaches.
Oceans: what August’s heat record measuresCopernicus recorded an average of 21,07 °C at the ocean surface outside the polar regions in August 2026. This record, shared with March 2024, is based on ERA5; other datasets do not give it the same ranking.
El Niño 2026–2027: reading the forecast at the right scaleThe WMO expects El Niño to strengthen and persist until February. This global climate signal does not, on its own, describe the winter in store for Luxembourg.
FLEX: observing plants beyond their colourLaunched on 15 September with Sentinel-3C, the European satellite is targeting a subtle signal: plant fluorescence. Interpreting it takes more than a beautiful green image.
Swift: the attempt to rescue it in orbit failed to achieve its goalThe LINK mission ended without raising the observatory’s orbit. NASA has drawn technical lessons from it, while acknowledging that its main objective was not achieved.
Growing food for the Moon: three agencies start with a ground-based demonstratorNASA, the Canadian Space Agency and DLR are preparing joint work on crops in controlled environments. The announcement on 30 September concerns a preparatory step, not a greenhouse already installed on the Moon.
DAVINCI: why NASA is preparing a probe for Venus’s 465°C heatA DAVINCI capsule has withstood 465°C six times in ground tests. NASA wants to understand how Venus evolved and whether it once had liquid water.