News Archive | September 2026

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September 12th
- Scientists got diamond's melting point wrong by more than 1,000 degrees, crushing new laser experiment reveals
- AI trained to 'think' like human pathologists may be better at spotting cancer
September 11th
- 'Oddly shaped rock' unearthed in California turns out to be 'immaculate' mastodon molar
- 'There are no easy answers here': New study forecasts a dire dip in food production if key Atlantic currents collapse
- Microscopic fragments of ancient alien tech may litter the moon — and scientists have a plan to find them
- Brain shrinkage tied to aging 'pauses' as a woman nears menopause, study finds
- Finland's largest Viking Age silver hoard discovered by metal detectorist — and it has thousands of coins and pieces of jewelry
September 10th
- 1 million people's genes reveal the heritability of the Big Five personality traits — and it's complicated
- Mercury may have shrunk much more than we thought, new study hints
- Powerful new AI model will map the moon's surface in more detail than ever, NASA and IBM scientists say
- A Harvest Moon with 5 planets on the side: September is the best month for stargazing, ‪and this year is extra special
September 9th
- 'America's Nobel' prizes go to sleep and hemophilia researchers, and to Michael J. Fox for Parkinson's advocacy
- Watch the first-ever footage of a rare deep-sea squid in the northeastern Pacific
- 'Why would you ruin your career?': OpenAI claims to have cracked one of math's greatest unsolved problems, but mathematicians allege it played dirty
- World's oldest evidence of habitual drug use traced back 25,000 years to Indonesia
- Record-breaking rain in California was caused by abnormally high temperatures on the other side of the world, study finds
- See the highest-resolution footage of a black hole jet ever taken, thanks to AI and 27 years of observations
- Enigmatic Denisovans lived by cave in what is now China for 100,000 years, rare fossils and handcrafted tools reveal
- The moon may have formed in just 5 hours, new simulations suggest
September 8th
- Google scientists removed a critical 'consciousness safeguard' from AI in new study. What happened next?
- Where on Earth is safest from global catastrophe?
- Arctic warming fuels 2 distinct climate regimes in Siberia that could wake up a methane 'sleeping giant'
- Eerily humanlike AI-powered robot enters mass production in China — its makers say it could soon be helping you out at home
September 7th
- Are there nuclear weapons hidden in space? Why a 60-year ban on space nukes has been impossible to enforce
September 6th
- Ancient Egyptian tomb holding the king's 'keeper of secrets' unearthed at Saqqara
- AI's water use is a problem, but shifting from electricity to solar or wind power could help
- Stunning Roman-era mosaic discovered in Turkey features 'Emerald' the cat and 'Ocean' the dog
- 'Extreme' transistor can withstand heat of more than 1,000 degrees F — priming it for use in Venus-bound probes
September 5th
- Mathematicians say these 60-sided dice are the fairest in the world. Designing them took 15 years.
- Faster than Usain Bolt? Here's all the records robot 'athletes' broke at this year's World Humanoid Robot Games in China.
- Excavation in Poland reveals Stone Age man buried with decapitated heads and a tooth necklace
September 4th
- Blue Origin rocket explosion sent sound waves 1,000 miles across the US, report finds
- 3,200-year-old inscription may point to a long-lost ancient Egyptian city from the time of Ramesses II
- Aging doesn't look the same for everyone at the molecular level — it's 'individualized and context-dependent'
- 'A worrying snapshot': Satellite image shows large patches of open water less than 40 miles from the North Pole
September 3rd
- Psilocybin may protect against a common, debilitating side effect of chemotherapy, early study finds
- Hubble confirms mysterious, 10-sided cloud is growing over Saturn's south pole
- Lavish private bath used by Roman emperor and 'high-status residents' discovered at imperial palace in Serbia
- 'There is no conflict between quantum physics and gravity': Physicists prove Einstein's 'happiest thought' holds true at quantum scales
- New map of a male fly central nervous system includes all 166,000 neurons — and enables direct comparisons to female fly brain
- An ancient 'supervolcano' has been found hiding beneath eastern England. But experts say there's not enough evidence to call it that.
- China reaches solar energy milestone — what does this mean for the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter?
September 2nd
- 1,600-year-old skeleton found in a giant jar in Bulgaria may belong to Roman who hid there to escape enemy attack
- Sunken WWII hospital ship colonized by devil firefish and rare monk seals
September 1st
- 'Biggest surprise of my life': Homeowner discovers Denmark's largest Viking Age silver hoard in their backyard
- Man rummaging in a Polish junkyard finds a 1,800-year-old shield holding the cremated remains of a Vandal warrior
- 'It's in the realm of possibility': Climate change is spurring a reemergence of yellow fever, and the US could face future threats