50 years since Turkish Airlines Flight 452 crashed near Isparta
September 19, 2026 marks 50 years since the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 452, one of the deadliest acciden...
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156 years since the Siege of Paris began during the Franco-Prussian War
On 19 September 1870, Prussian armies and troops from allied German states closed the roads and railways into...
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69 years since Rainier, the first fully contained underground nuclear explosion
On 19 September 1957 the United States detonated the Rainier device in a tunnel cut into Rainier Mesa at the N...
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43 years since the independence of Saint Kitts and Nevis
On 19 September 1983, the federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis became a sovereign state, ending associated stat...
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FAA Allows Boeing to Sell 35 More 777F Freighters Under Temporary Waiver
On 17 September the FAA approved a waiver from emissions rules that, from 1 January 2028, would have stopped s...
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176 years since the Fugitive Slave Act expanded the pursuit of people who escaped slavery
On 18 September 1850 the Fugitive Slave Act was enacted as part of the Compromise of 1850. At 176 years’ dista...
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Kauai Small Businesses Ask Tourists to Return Responsibly After Hurricane Lowell
After Hurricane Lowell on 7 September, Kauai first asked visitors to postpone travel so emergency roads and re...
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274 years since the birth of Adrien-Marie Legendre, a mathematician of the modern era
Adrien-Marie Legendre was born in Paris on 18 September 1752. At 274 years from his birth, his name remains at...
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1,930 years since Nerva was proclaimed Roman emperor
On 18 September 96, after Domitian was killed in a palace conspiracy, the Senate recognised Marcus Cocceius Ne...
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OpenAI Discusses AI-Safety Cooperation with Anthropic and Google
OpenAI is discussing possible cooperation on artificial-intelligence safety with Anthropic and Google DeepMind...
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How Can a Hot-Air Balloon Fly?
A hot-air balloon does not rise because smoke pushes it. The principle is buoyancy: surrounding air exerts an...
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US Postal Service Stops Work on Mail-Voting Verification System
US Postmaster General David Steiner said the Postal Service has stopped work on a computer system tied to the...
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How Does Soap Remove Grease and Dirt?
Water alone is poor at washing grease. Water molecules attract one another; non-polar oils stay separate, as a...
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Why Is a Rainbow Shaped Like an Arc?
A rainbow is not an object hanging in the sky. It appears when sunlight meets many water droplets, with the ob...
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Florida Court Warns Against “AI Slop” in Legal Filings
Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal, based in West Palm Beach, has ordered a lawyer to explain why she s...
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Why Does Bread Go Stale?
A slice left on the table dries out. Bread can still firm inside a closed bag, where it loses little water. A...
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64 years since Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago joined the UN
18 September 2026 marks 64 years since Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago were admitted to the U...
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Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses?
A cold, wet nose is often taken as proof that a dog is healthy. Reality is narrower: a healthy animal may brie...
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Why Does Salt Melt Ice on Roads?
Salt on ice does not burn like a flame. Its main effect is freezing-point depression: water with dissolved ion...
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Romania Joins New “Carpathian Eight” Regional Initiative
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Friday, in Ukraine’s Carpathians, the launch of the “C8 – Carpathia...
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Taiwan Holds Its First Joint Military Drills Using Attack Drones
Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, on Friday inspected a live-fire exercise in Pingtung County in which attack...
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Great Britain’s Retail Sales Rise 0.5% in August
Retail sales volumes in Great Britain rose 0.5% in August 2026 on July, according to the Office for National S...
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20 years since Anousheh Ansari became the first woman to fund her own spaceflight
18 September 2026 marks 20 years since Anousheh Ansari launched towards the International Space Station. ESA r...
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RoboTechnik Prepares an Approximately $800 Million Hong Kong Listing
RoboTechnik Intelligent Technology, a Chinese maker of automation equipment, is preparing to launch a Hong Kon...
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South Korea Rules Out Military Involvement in the Middle East Conflict
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Friday, at a Cheong Wa Dae news conference, that Seoul would not...
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153 years since the collapse of Jay Cooke & Company triggered the Panic of 1873
18 September 2026 marks 153 years since Jay Cooke & Company suspended payments. Federal Reserve History ties t...
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NATS Identifies Software Defect as Cause of UK Air Traffic Control Outage
NATS, the UK’s air-traffic-control operator, said on Friday that last week’s outage was a software defect in p...
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EU Finance Ministers Discuss Taxing Windfall Energy Profits
EU finance ministers put a tax on energy companies’ windfall profits on the Dublin table on 18 September. The...
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156 years since the Old Faithful geyser received its name
18 September 2026 marks 156 years since members of the Washburn–Langford–Doane expedition named Old Faithful,...
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EU Announces €3.3 Billion Payment to Support Ukraine’s Defence
The European Commission is to transfer €3.3 billion to Ukraine on Friday, 18 September, for the procurement of...
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Why Do We Get Goosebumps?
A cold draft, a tense scene or a musical chord can raise the same bumps on the skin. The phenomenon is piloere...
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Why Are Airplane Windows Rounded?
Airliner windows are small and rounded, even though a rectangle would give a wider view. The reason is the pre...
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