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Anthropic unifies Claude tools and introduces document and presentation features

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Technology

On 16 September Anthropic announced that it is combining Claude’s chat and Cowork features in a single interfa...

Human brain organoids in a Petri dish, Stanford laboratory image

Lab-grown human brain tissue has been integrated into mouse brains

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Science

A Stanford Medicine team led by neuroscientist Sergiu Pașca transplanted human cortical organoids into mice ge...

The New York Stock Exchange building on Wall Street, Manhattan

25 years since US stock markets reopened after the September 11 attacks

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Economy

17 September 2026 marks 25 years since US equity and options markets reopened after the terrorist attacks of 1...

The United Nations General Assembly Hall at the New York headquarters

35 years since South Korea and North Korea joined the United Nations on the same day

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History

17 September 2026 marks 35 years since South Korea and North Korea were admitted to the United Nations. The 19...

Palm Springs City Hall, a modernist building with palms and a canopy reading City Hall

FinCon 2026 concludes three days focused on creators and digital businesses in Palm Springs

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Economy

FinCon 2026 closes on Friday 18 September after three days in Palm Springs. The official site lists the dates...

A B-52 bomber releasing the experimental X-15 rocket plane

67 years since the first powered X-15 flight: the rocket plane that helped open the era of hypersonic flight

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Science

17 September 2026 marks 67 years since the first powered flight of the X-15 rocket plane, one of the most impo...

Charlotte Motor Speedway at night, with race cars on the bend and a packed grandstand

FoodieLand arrives at Charlotte Motor Speedway from 18 to 20 September

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News

FoodieLand opens at Charlotte Motor Speedway for a weekend of food, shopping and entertainment. The event runs...

Wright Flyer test flights at Fort Myer, Virginia, in 1908

118 years since the death of Thomas Selfridge: the first fatality in a powered-aircraft crash

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History

17 September 2026 marks 118 years since the Fort Myer crash that killed Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge, an eve...

Burnside Bridge over Antietam Creek on the battlefield near Sharpsburg, Maryland

164 years since the Battle of Antietam: 17 September 1862, the bloodiest single day of the American Civil War

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History

17 September 2026 marks 164 years since the Battle of Antietam, fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and remember...

Main hall of the College of Engineering Pune, with stone arches and a timber roof

ICNDIA 2026 brings digitalisation and artificial-intelligence researchers to Pune

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Technology

Pune hosts ICNDIA 2026 on 18 and 19 September, an international conference focused on digitalisation, artifici...

The Assembly Room at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were si…

17 September is Constitution Day in the United States: why the signing of the Constitution is commemorated each year

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History

In the United States, 17 September is observed as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, a date dedicated to th...

Hank Williams publicity portrait, MGM Records, circa 1951

103 years since Hank Williams was born: the artist who transformed country music during an extraordinarily short career

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Culture

17 September 2026 marks 103 years since the birth of Hank Williams, one of the defining figures of American co...

Mixed team in a meeting room around a table with laptops, in an office setting

International Equal Pay Day: Why the pay gap remains a global challenge

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Economy

International Equal Pay Day is observed on 18 September as a United Nations initiative centred on the principl...

Space Shuttle Enterprise at its public rollout in Palmdale, California, 17 September 1976

50 years since Space Shuttle Enterprise made its public debut on 17 September 1976

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Science

17 September 2026 marks exactly 50 years since the public debut of Enterprise, the first vehicle built for NAS...

Jimmy Carter, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin at the signing of the Camp David Accords, 17 September 1978

48 years since the Camp David Accords were signed on 17 September 1978

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History

17 September 2026 marks 48 years since the Camp David Accords were signed. The documents were the result of ne...

German and Soviet tanks at Brest-Litovsk, 22 September 1939, after the partition of Poland

87 years since the Soviet invasion of Poland: 17 September 1939 and the opening of a second front

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History

17 September 2026 marks 87 years since Soviet troops entered eastern Poland. The attack left the Polish state...

US C-47 aircraft over the Netherlands on the first day of Operation Market Garden, 17 September 1944

82 years since Operation Market Garden began on 17 September 1944

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History

17 September 2026 marks 82 years since Operation Market Garden began, one of the most ambitious Allied operati...

First page of the United States Constitution, parchment document held by the National Archives

239 years since the signing of the United States Constitution in Philadelphia on 17 September 1787

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History

17 September 2026 marks 239 years since the signing of the United States Constitution. In the summer of 1787,...

The International Space Station photographed after STS-132 undocking, where the educational Astro Pi computers fly

Code written by European students will run aboard the International Space Station in the new Astro Pi challenge

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Education

Students and young programmers in Europe and Canada can again send code to run on the Astro Pi computers aboar...

A view of Addis Ababa, where WHO announced on 15 September 2026 the classification of Ethiopia’s emergency medical team

Ethiopia secures WHO classification for its national emergency medical team

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Health

Ethiopia has secured World Health Organization classification for its national emergency medical team, accordi...

Beach and gulls at sunset, archive photograph associated with a coastal landscape

Walton-on-the-Naze turns its coastline into a festival of art, music and community

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Culture

Walton-on-the-Naze, a seaside town in Essex, hosts Between the Tides from 17 to 20 September, a festival using...

Kitchen ingredients on a wooden table, archive photograph associated with food

Abergavenny Food Festival opens this weekend as producers, chefs and food writers gather in Wales

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Lifestyle

Abergavenny is preparing for a weekend devoted to food as its Food Festival returns on 19 and 20 September. T...

Students at a CanSat competition with can-sized educational devices, not orbital satellites

ESA challenges European students to build a satellite the size of a drinks can

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Education

The European Space Agency reopened the 2026–2027 CanSat educational challenge on 16 September. Students aged 1...

Seasonal fruit on a plate, archive photograph associated with food

York begins ten days devoted to food as its Food & Drink Festival opens on 18 September

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Lifestyle

York Food & Drink Festival begins on Friday, 18 September and continues through 27 September, bringing ten day...

Computer code on a screen, archive photograph associated with digital security

CyberFest brings a day focused on cybersecurity and the future of technology to Cheltenham

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Technology

Cheltenham hosts CyberFest on 17 September, an event focused on cybersecurity, technology and connections betw...

Sea-ice floes near Svalbard, illustrating the Arctic ice discussed in the study

Why Arctic sea ice does not simply follow the wind: researchers point to collisions between ice floes

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Environment

Arctic sea ice does not simply follow the wind, according to a University of California, Riverside-led study p...

A high-voltage power line in Île-de-France; electricity grids have become industrial infrastructure for AI and factories

The next industrial race is moving to the power socket as electricity becomes strategic for AI and manufacturing

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Energy

Ursula von der Leyen said in her State of the Union address on 16 September 2026 that Europe cannot remain an...

An avenue in Borisova Gradina, Sofia; not Hipodruma Park where MustArt Fest 2026 takes place

MustArt Fest closes in Sofia on Thursday with short films, original music and awards

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Culture

MustArt Fest 2026 concludes its two-day programme in Sofia’s Hipodruma Park on Thursday, 17 September with ori...

Rural landscape near Horley, Surrey, in the area of the Horse Hill oil field, not the extraction compound

Surrey’s Horse Hill oil field sold for £1 million as new owner seeks to revive production

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Energy

The Horse Hill oil field in Surrey has been sold for £1 million, a fraction of the more than £25 million the f...

Crowd at an outdoor concert, archive photograph associated with music festivals

Three stages and around 20 artists as free Septembre Indien festival returns to Ménilmontant

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Culture

Paris’s Ménilmontant neighbourhood hosts the fifth Septembre Indien festival on 19 and 20 September, a free ev...

Saturn photographed by Cassini, backlit by the Sun (archive image, not from the 2026 NIAC symposium)

From mapping exoplanets to swarms in Saturn’s rings: NASA explores concepts for the future of spaceflight

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Science

NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts, known as NIAC, is using its annual symposium to present ideas that ask a fu...

A Paris Peacock butterfly (Papilio paris), a Himalayan species also found in Nepal, not a photograph from the 2026 count

Nepal runs a nationwide butterfly count to build a clearer picture of biodiversity

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Environment

Nepal is running a nationwide butterfly count in September 2026: more than 100 volunteers covering 25 location...

Calendar

October 2026