No. In September 2026, the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark-matter experiment reported a single anomalous particle interaction that is hard to explain with known backgrounds, but collaboration leaders said they are not claiming a dark-matter discovery. The new analysis of 220 live days of data reached about 2.6 sigma significance—far below the conventional 5-sigma discovery threshold in … Read more
As of September 12, 2026, the Philippine Coast Guard said the confirmed death toll from the fire aboard the passenger ferry MV June Aster off Palawan had risen to 76, after rescuers recovered 41 additional charred remains (up from 35 earlier). Forty-three people survived, and 13 remained unaccounted for based on a ticket manifest of … Read more
As of September 12, 2026, the Philippine Coast Guard said the confirmed death toll from the fire aboard the passenger ferry MV June Aster off Palawan had risen to 76, after rescuers recovered 41 additional charred remains (up from 35 earlier). Forty-three people survived, and 13 remained unaccounted for based on a ticket manifest of … Read more
Yes. A September 10, 2026 study in Geophysical Research Letters finds Mercury’s cooling-driven contraction has likely been underestimated by about 10% to 30% because impact debris and rough terrain hide many surface wrinkles that record that shrinking. After correcting for that obscuration, the researchers report radial contraction of up to about 11.6 kilometers—corresponding to roughly … Read more
Yes. Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Energy temporarily shut the East-West oil pipeline as a precaution after drones struck facilities in the Riyadh and Medina areas, causing injuries and damage. The roughly 1,200-kilometer (746-mile) Aramco-operated line runs from the Abqaiq oilfield in the east to Yanbu on the Red Sea. In recent months the pipeline had … Read more
VCF data as of July 31, 2026 put 9/11-related illness deaths at 9,677, including 5,892 from cancer.
Up to about 319 million SpaceX Class A shares became eligible to trade on September 9, 2026. That release was the 90-day tranche under the company’s IPO lock-up schedule and represented roughly 7% of the shares subject to the 180-day lock-up, excluding Rule 144 affiliates. A separate affiliate block of up to about 59.1 million … Read more
No. At the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on September 10, 2026, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the U.S. has “the sickest children in the history of the world.” PolitiFact rated that claim False. For most of human history, about half of children died before puberty, largely from infectious disease. U.S. childhood mortality … Read more
On September 11, 2026, the CIA released 71 declassified President’s Daily Brief documents about al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. The set runs from February 1998 through September 12, 2001 — 70 items from before the attacks and one from the day after. CIA Director John Ratcliffe called the disclosure the agency’s single largest release of … Read more
The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks killed 2,977 people, not counting the 19 hijackers. That total covers people killed at the World Trade Center in New York, at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and aboard the four hijacked planes, including United Airlines Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The National September 11 Memorial also lists six … Read more