Pins matching posted:2026-09-22

DOE went back to the market on 1 April 2026 for a third exchange, this one drawn entirely from the Bryan Mound caverns outside Freeport, Texas. Bidders had until the following Monday, and a limited Jones Act waiver let them move the crude on foreign-flagged ships to get it to refiners faster.

Jon Sybert and Jill Tyler replace Tail Up Goat with a counter-service New American restaurant in the same space.

DOE had asked for up to 30 million barrels of sweet crude from West Hackberry on 9 April 2026; eight days later it awarded contracts for 26 million of them, with deliveries starting at once. By then more than 10 million barrels of the wider exchange had already reached the market.

LACMA's permanent collection moved into a new home on 19 April 2026: a 275-metre curved building of glass and concrete that steps over Wilshire Boulevard on splayed piers, lifting 10,220 square metres of galleries some nine metres above the street. It completes a campus rebuild two decades in the making, replacing four of the museum's ageing buildings with a single level where the collection is shown without a fixed route through it.

Construction begins on Stix Asia's 18,000-square-foot Las Vegas food hall in the former Sundry space at UnCommons, with a dozen restaurants planned and a fall 2026 opening. A sakura tree will anchor the centre of the room.

Chef Nicholas Dixon opens a Spanish restaurant in South Boston that treats Spanish cooking as a starting point, cooking over Basque grills in a multi-room dining space.

Chef Tae Strain opens a 12-seat tasting-menu counter on a hilltop farm and vineyard in the Maryland countryside, serving farm produce on plates made from its own clay.

Chef Ned Baldwin, a fisherman's son, opens an airy seafood restaurant in Brooklyn.

Chef Csilla Thackray opens a bright Austro-Hungarian restaurant on Butler Street, named for her great-grandfather and inspired by her Hungarian grandmother.

Chef Theo Adley opens a Basque-leaning bistro in Denver's Five Points, sister to Marigold in Lyons, Colorado, with a rotisserie and a counter by a roll-up door.

After soliciting up to 92.5 million barrels from all four storage sites - the largest single exchange in the reserve's history - DOE awarded contracts for 53.3 million on 11 May 2026, at a return premium of about 28 per cent. That is 15.1 million extra barrels owed back to the stockpile.

Johnny Curiel opens a small corn-centred Mexican tasting-menu restaurant in Denver, his sixth opening in three years; the menu runs to 18 courses.

Daniel Patterson, best known for Coi in San Francisco, returns to fine dining with a 12-course tasting menu on Melrose Avenue, with his wife Sarah Lewitinn and pastry chef Matt Tinder.

A 20-course, $295 tasting menu staged as theatre: 26 diners at a time move from a graffiti lounge to a projection-mapped communal room, past the open kitchen and into a chandeliered dining room, two or three seatings a night.

Johnny Spero, who won a Michelin star at Reverie in Washington, opens a seafood tasting menu at the Inn at Langley on Whidbey Island.

Jake Howell, Yuriko Say and Craig Schoen, the team behind Peninsula, open a seven-table multicourse speakeasy by the Cumberland River.

Chef Myles Moody (Eleven Madison Park, Aska) and sommelier Rachael Pack open a seasonal Southern restaurant in a former Atlanta burger joint.

The first TM-B Launch Edition e-bikes reached US riders in the week of 3 August 2026, about six weeks later than the spring ALSO promised at the bike's unveiling. The Rivian spinout's Class 3 debut runs to 100 miles on a charge and swaps its Top Frame from cargo to passenger duty in under three seconds.

Weekly Energy Department data published on 10 August 2026 put the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at 298.7 million barrels, down 6.1 million in a week and the lowest reading in the EIA series since January 1983. The stockpile had held about 415 million barrels before the Iran war began.

Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 - the same model behind different safeguards - and cuts cache reads by 75%, making typical workloads about 25% cheaper to run than Fable 5.

Rosneft's Vostok Oil project loaded its first tanker at the new Bukhta Sever terminal on Russia's Taymyr Peninsula, opening a huge new Arctic export route despite Western sanctions.

Anthropic confirmed it operates a wet biology lab in the Bay Area where its models can run physical experiments, its head of life sciences Eric Kauderer-Abrams saying the company is doing real lab work today. Anthropic says the facility's focus is fundamental biology rather than drug discovery, where it partners with pharma customers including Novo Nordisk.

George Lucas's museum of narrative art opens to the public on 22 September 2026 in Exposition Park, after a build that ran years past its first target date. It is given over to storytelling as art - illustration, comics, film and the painted image side by side - rather than to a single medium, and it lands beside the Natural History Museum and the California Science Center in the city's museum quarter.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in a new Claude 5.5 family, which it says matches Claude Fable 5.1 on most work while costing 40% less to run than Opus 5.

The gravitational-wave detectors start a six-month intermediate observing run before the fifth observing run. Both LIGO detectors take part, Virgo joins despite possible maintenance interruptions, and KAGRA joins as it becomes available.

London's city museum reopens on 28 November 2026 under a new name and in a new home: the derelict General Market beside Smithfield's meat halls, a Victorian market building left empty for decades and now rebuilt around its own ironwork and glazed dome. The move ends the institution's run at London Wall, where it had been hemmed in by a roundabout and reached by a walkway, and puts it at street level in a market that has traded on the site since the twelfth century.

The first stage of Euclid Data Release 1 puts out all raw data and calibrated images, catalogues and spectra over about 1,900 square degrees of sky. The higher-level products for galaxy clustering and weak lensing follow in mid-2027.

ESA publishes the fourth Gaia data release, the mission's first principal release, covering the first 5.5 years of observations. It adds astrometric time series, an exoplanet list and the software to work with them.

Twenty years after it was announced, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi opens on 11 December 2026 as the largest museum in the Guggenheim family - about 80,000 square metres, against roughly a quarter of that in New York. Frank Gehry arranged it around a single tall atrium with galleries threaded between ten sculptural cones, nine sheathed in stainless steel mesh and one in onyx and glass, so the roofline reads as a cluster of towers from across the Culture District.

Finland's Posiva began drilling the first deposition hole at the Onkalo repository, a step toward becoming the world's first facility to permanently bury spent nuclear fuel.

An 18,000-square-foot Asian food hall with 12 stalls and roughly 400 seats opens in the former Sundry space at UnCommons in southwest Las Vegas, the second Stix Asia after the 2023 Honolulu original. The first three tenants named - Ginza Bairin, Ramen BARIO and NANAMUSUBI - are each opening their first mainland US location.

Time Out's first market in South America, run under a master franchise by Benjamin Ramalho's Giunina. When it was announced for the first quarter of 2027, the site, the kitchens and the cultural programme had all still to be named.

Berlin's Pergamonmuseum comes back in stages, and the first of them lands on 4 June 2027: the North Wing and the northern central building reopen, putting the Pergamon Altar back on public view and giving the Museum für Islamische Kunst two full floors. The museum has been under renovation since 2013 as part of the Museumsinsel master plan, and the South Wing stays shut after this - it is not expected back until around 2037.

Constellation Energy is working to bring the former Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor back online to supply carbon-free power under a 20-year deal with Microsoft.

Time Out brings its market home to the city where the magazine started in 1968: 26,400 square feet over three floors at 10 Piccadilly, on a long-term partnership with The Crown Estate, as the flagship of the whole portfolio.

Tajikistan's Rogun Dam, a Soviet-era project restarted after independence, is targeted to reach full completion around 2029 as the world's tallest dam at roughly 335 metres.

A €23M EBRD-backed grant funds a seven-year project to relocate radioactive uranium tailings from Mailuu-Suu's most dangerous dam, away from the Fergana Valley's water supply.

EDF has pushed the first reactor at Britain's Hinkley Point C nuclear plant back to 2030 and raised its cost estimate to roughly £35bn in 2015 prices.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced it will build ARC, its first commercial fusion power plant, on a Dominion Energy-owned site in Chesterfield County, Virginia, targeting roughly 400MW of grid power in the early 2030s.

ITER, the largest and most powerful nuclear fusion reactor ever attempted, built in southern France by 35 partner nations, has pushed its first scientific operations back to 2034 after years of delays.