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Astronomy10/01/2026@ScienceDesk
A Record Ten-Minute X-Ray Flash Points to the Birth of a Magnetar in a Neutron Star Merger
Paranal Observatory, Acceso Observatorio Paranal, Antofagasta, Provincia de Antofagasta, Antofagasta Region, ChileEinstein Probe
Starts 09/30/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins88% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 88%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better2 days agoScienceDaily^[1] reported the Science Bulletin findings on 30 September 2026; the event itself was recorded on 4 July 2025.
A Science Bulletin study of EP250704a, seen on 4 July 2025, finds the longest prompt X-ray flash ever recorded from a neutron star merger, nearly ten minutes long, as strong evidence that such mergers can leave a magnetar behind.
Astronomy10/01/2026@ScienceDesk
Astronomers Detect Radio Signals From an Exoplanet for the First Time
Center for Astrophysics, 60, Garden Street, Avon Hill, Neighborhood Nine, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 02138, United StatesCenter for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Starts 09/24/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins87% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 87%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better8 days agoThe paper appeared on arXiv^[3] as 2609.16720 and was reported by Phys.org^[1], Sci.News^[2] and Astrobiology.com in the last week of September 2026; the pin uses 24 September, the date of the Astrobiology.com listing.
Using South Africa's MeerKAT array, a Harvard & Smithsonian team reports the first direct detection of auroral radio emission from a planet outside the Solar System, implying a magnetic field of at least 1,250 gauss on the giant planet Beta Pictoris b.
Science10/01/2026@ScienceDesk
A New Fragment of the World's Oldest Peace Treaty Is Found at Hattusa
Hattusa, Boğazkale - Yozgat yolu, Boğazkale, Çorum, Black Sea Region, 19310, TurkeyMinistry of Culture and Tourism
Starts 09/21/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins82% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 82%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better11 days agoHeritageDaily^[1], PopSci^[2] and Arkeonews^[3] report the announcement by the Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism on 21 September 2026, the International Day of Peace.
On 21 September 2026 Türkiye announced a cuneiform tablet fragment from the Treaty of Kadesh, covering Articles 12 to 20 on people who fled between Egypt and the Hittite kingdom, unearthed in the Büyükkale area of the Hittite capital.
Astronomy10/01/2026@ScienceDesk
Elias 2-24 b Becomes the Youngest Known Planet, Under a Million Years Old
W. M. Keck Observatory, 65-1120, Mauna Kea Access Rd, Hawaiʻi County, Hawaii, United StatesW. M. Keck Observatory
Starts 09/16/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins83% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 83%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better16 days agoScienceDaily^[1] gives The Astrophysical Journal Letters publication on 16 September 2026, and Science Times^[2] reported it on 22 September.
Reprocessing archived Keck images, astronomers have confirmed a Jupiter-size planet less than a million years old, 55 times Earth's distance from its star, forming far faster than planet-formation models allow.
Astronomy10/01/2026@ScienceDesk
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Was Born in a Deep Freeze, Its Tail Shows
Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, Garafía, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, SpainNorthumbria University
Starts 09/08/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins85% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 85%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better24 days agoAstronomy Now^[1] reported the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society study on 8 September 2026 and Sci.News^[2] reported it the same month.
A Northumbria University team using the William Herschel Telescope's WEAVE spectrograph found unusually nitrogen-rich gas in the tail of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, pointing to formation at about 30 kelvin far from its home star.
Science10/01/2026@ScienceDesk
A Metal Detectorist Finds Finland's Largest Viking Age Silver Hoard Near Sysmä
Sysmä, Lahti sub-region, Päijät-Häme, Mainland Finland, FinlandLahti Museums
Starts 09/03/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins88% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 88%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better29 days agoMedievalists.net^[1] and Archaeology Magazine report that Kalle Lappinen found the hoard on 3 September 2026 and archaeologists inspected the site the next day.
On 3 September 2026 Kalle Lappinen found about 4.5 kilograms of silver coins and objects buried in two birch-bark containers in a forest near Sysmä, far larger than the previous Finnish record from 1895.
Science10/01/2026@ScienceDesk
A Homeowner in Rebild Unearths Denmark's Largest Viking Age Silver Hoard
Rebild, Rebild Municipality, North Denmark Region, 9520, DenmarkNorth Jutland Museums
Starts 08/31/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins88% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 88%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better32 days agoFox News^[1] reports the announcement by North Jutland Museums on 31 August 2026, and Archaeology Magazine and CNN report the same hoard in the first week of September.
North Jutland Museums announced on 31 August 2026 an 18.5-kilogram hoard of about 700 silver pieces, struck by a homeowner preparing ground for a terrace in Rebild, nearly three times the size of the previous Danish record.
Science10/01/2026@ScienceDesk
A 6,500-Year-Old Sanctuary Near Chleby Predates Stonehenge by 1,000 Years
Chleby, okres Nymburk, Central Bohemian Region, CzechiaUniversity of West Bohemia
Starts 08/21/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins83% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 83%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better42 days agoArchaeology Magazine reported the discovery on 21 August 2026, and Gizmodo^[2] and Expats.cz report the same sanctuary and age.
Archaeologists from the University of West Bohemia report a nearly circular 230-metre enclosure in Czechia, built about 6,500 years ago, whose twelve entrances align with the Sun and the Moon.
Science10/01/2026@ScienceDesk
Six Gold Arm Rings Near Rold Make Denmark's Third-Largest Viking Age Gold Find
Rold Høj, Rebild, Rebild Municipality, North Denmark Region, 9520, DenmarkNorth Jutland Museums
Starts 04/22/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins83% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 83%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better163 days agoArchaeology Magazine dates the discovery to 22 April 2026, when a local resident handed in two gold rings, with the full set of six recovered in the following search; reports followed in early May.^[1]
After a resident handed in two gold rings found beside a forest track on 22 April 2026, North Jutland archaeologists recovered six solid gold arm rings weighing 762.5 grams, now declared state property.
Science10/01/2026@ScienceDesk
Two Detectorists Find the Mørstad Hoard, Norway's Largest Viking Age Coin Treasure
Rena, Åmot, Innlandet, 2450, NorwayMuseum of Cultural History
04/10/2026 - 05/13/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins85% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 85%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better175 days agoThe Museum of Cultural History's own page gives the discovery on 10 April 2026, with its excavation from 5 to 13 May.^[1]
Metal detectorists Vegard Sørlie and Rune Sætre found 19 silver coins near Rena on 10 April 2026; the excavation by the Museum of Cultural History ended with 4,772 coins buried around 1046-47.
Science09/22/2026@ScienceDesk
LIGO Announces the First Detection of Gravitational Waves
National Press Club, 529, 14th Street Northwest, Downtown, Ward 2, Washington, District of Columbia, 20005, United StatesLIGO
Starts 02/11/2016CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins88% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 88%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better10.6 years agoWikipedia^[2] dates both the observation and the announcement: "The first direct observation of gravitational waves was made on 14 September 2015 and was announced by the LIGO^[3] and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016." LIGO's own news release of that day carries the announcement, made at 10:30 a.m. Eastern at the National Press Club, where this pin is placed.
At a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations announce GW150914, a signal from the merger of two black holes recorded by both LIGO detectors on 14 September 2015 - the first direct observation of gravitational waves.
Science09/22/2026@ScienceDesk
CERN Announces a Particle Consistent With the Higgs Boson
CERN, 1, Route de Meyrin, Meyrin, Geneva, 1211, SwitzerlandCERN
Starts 07/04/2012CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins88% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 88%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better14.2 years agoCERN's own press release is dated the day of the seminar, and Wikipedia's^[2] Higgs boson article repeats it throughout: "On 4 July 2012, the discovery of a new particle with a mass between 125 and 127 GeV/c2 was announced" and "On 4 July 2012 both of the CERN experiments announced they had independently made the same discovery".
At a seminar at CERN, the ATLAS and CMS experiments each report a new boson at around 125-126 GeV at five sigma, independently and from the same data-taking runs. It is the last unverified piece of the Standard Model.
Science09/22/2026@ScienceDesk
The Roslin Institute Announces Dolly the Sheep
The Roslin Institute, Bush Farm Road, Pentlands Science Park, Boghall, City of Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, EH25 9RG, United KingdomRoslin Institute
Starts 02/22/1997CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better29.6 years agoWikipedia's^[2] article on Dolly states it without hedging: "Dolly's existence was announced to the public on 22 February 1997." She had been born on 5 July 1996, so the birth and the announcement are seven months apart and this pin takes the announcement, the day the result became public.
The Roslin Institute reveals that a Finn-Dorset lamb born the previous July was cloned from an adult mammary-gland cell by somatic cell nuclear transfer - the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell.
Science09/22/2026@ScienceDesk
Watson and Crick Publish the Structure of DNA
Old Cavendish Laboratory, Free School Lane, Newnham, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, England, CB2 3RQ, United KingdomCavendish Laboratory
Starts 04/25/1953CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins85% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 85%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better73.4 years agoThe issue itself carries the date: the paper was "published by Francis Crick and James D. Watson in the scientific journal Nature^[1] on pages 737-738 of its 171st volume (dated 25 April 1953)", and Nature's own page for the article gives the same issue date.
Nature carries Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, the paper in which Francis Crick and James Watson describe the double helix. It runs to two pages and settles how genetic instructions are held and passed on.
Science09/22/2026@ScienceDesk
The 1919 Eclipse Results Confirm General Relativity
Royal Astronomical Society, Piccadilly, St. James's, Westminster, Mayfair, City of Westminster, Greater London, England, W1J 0PA, United KingdomRoyal Astronomical Society
Starts 11/06/1919CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins85% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 85%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better106.9 years agoWikipedia's^[1][2][3] Eddington experiment article dates the session: "The presentation of the results at the joint 6 November 1919 session of Royal Society and Royal Astronomical Society led to intensive press coverage first in Great Britain and a few days later in the US press". The eclipse itself was on 29 May 1919; this pin is the announcement, which is what made Einstein famous.
Arthur Eddington presents the results of the May 1919 eclipse expeditions to Principe and Sobral at a joint session of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society at Burlington House. The measured deflection of starlight matches Einstein's prediction, and the meeting accepts it.
Science09/22/2026@ScienceDesk
Einstein Presents the Field Equations of General Relativity
Berlin State Library, 8, Unter den Linden, Friedrichswerder, Dorotheenstadt, Mitte, Berlin, 10117, GermanyPrussian Academy of Sciences
Starts 11/25/1915CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins88% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 88%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better110.9 years agoTwo sources agree. Wikipedia's^[2][3] History of general relativity says "on 25 November 1915, Einstein presented the updated Einstein field equations to the Prussian Academy of Sciences", and the Wikisource^[1] translation of the paper itself carries the publication header: presented at the session of 25 November 1915 and printed in Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Sitzungsberichte, 1915 (part 2), pages 844-847.
Albert Einstein reads The Field Equations of Gravitation to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, giving general relativity its final form after an inconsistency with observation sent him back to the drawing board.
Science09/22/2026@ScienceDesk
The Curies Announce the Discovery of Radium
Institut de France, Rue de Seine, Quartier de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 6th Arrondissement, Paris, Ile-de-France, Metropolitan France, 75006, FranceFrench Academy of Sciences
Starts 12/26/1898CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins88% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 88%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better127.8 years agoWikipedia's^[2] Radium article dates both steps: "Radium was discovered by Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her husband Pierre Curie on 21 December 1898 in a uraninite (pitchblende) sample from Jachymov" and "The Curies announced their discovery to the French Academy of Sciences on 26 December 1898". The pin is the announcement, the public event of the two.
Marie and Pierre Curie announce radium to the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, five days after isolating it from pitchblende ore mined at Jachymov. It is the second element they identify that year, after polonium.
Science09/22/2026@ScienceDesk
Mendeleev Presents the Periodic Table
St. Petersburg State University, Менделеевская линия, округ № 7, Saint Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, 199034, RussiaRussian Chemical Society
Starts 03/06/1869CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins85% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 85%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better157.6 years agoWikipedia's^[2][3] Dmitri Mendeleev article states it plainly: "On 6 March 1869, he made a formal presentation to the Russian Chemical Society, titled The Dependence between the Properties of the Atomic Weights of the Elements". Russia was still on the Julian calendar, so contemporary Russian sources date the work to February; the manuscript sheet on Commons is signed 17.02.1869, the Julian date for 1 March, and the pin uses the Gregorian date Wikipedia gives for the presentation itself.
Dmitri Mendeleev's paper The Dependence between the Properties of the Atomic Weights of the Elements is read to the Russian Chemical Society in St Petersburg, arranging the known elements by atomic weight and valence and leaving gaps for elements not yet found.
Science09/22/2026@ScienceDesk
Darwin Publishes On the Origin of Species
John Murray, 50, Albemarle Street, St. James's, East Marylebone, Mayfair, City of Westminster, Greater London, England, W1S 4BD, United KingdomJohn Murray
Starts 11/24/1859CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins88% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 88%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better166.9 years agoWikipedia's^[2][3] article gives the publication date without hedging - "It was published on 24 November 1859" - and Darwin Online^[1] serves the 1859 Murray first edition (F373) that appeared on that day. The date is one of the best-attested in the history of science and no source consulted disputes it.
John Murray issues the first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection from 50 Albemarle Street in London. The print run of 1,250 copies is taken up by the trade on the day of publication.

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