# NuseReal
Headlines: 1-6 September 2026
Friday, 4 September 2026
Nepal: Two men pulled alive from Nepal hydropower plant tunnel nine days after floods: One rescued said he became trapped after helping others escape; body of a third man found at site (LINK) — 4 September 2026
— The number of people killed in Nepal has exceeded 1,290. The death toll in China is at least 31, according to state media outlet Xinhua. About 5,500 across both countries remain missing.
Crypto trader turns $1,491 into $1.2 million with AMC in 7 hours (LINK) — 4 September 2026
U.S.: Judge declares mistrial in Lindsay Clancy trial after jurors can't reach a verdict (LINK) — 4 September 2026
— Judge said earlier that he won't question a juror who the defense said was a lone holdout, according to notes from the jury. Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington said the juror refuses to apply the law on reasonable doubt and had asked the judge to remove the member. Clancy is accused of murder after strangling her three young children in 2023. Prosecutors have argued she acted "intentionally, rationally, and swiftly" to kill her children, while the defense said she should not be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
Thursday, 3 September 2026
Iran war escalation raises concern over civilian death toll: Iran says 18 killed in latest US strikes; four at wedding: US says it never targets civilians: UN chief alarmed by civilian toll, urges diplomacy to end war (LINK) — 3 September 2026
— Iran's health minister said 18 people were killed and 108 wounded in Tuesday night's U.S. strikes across Iran. The Iranian Red Crescent said four people were killed and 67 wounded at a wedding ceremony near the coast of the Strait of Hormuz. Kuwait's army reported missile and drone attacks early Thursday, saying they were intercepted by air defense systems.
— United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was "deeply alarmed by reports of civilian casualties, including a strike that reportedly hit a wedding ceremony in Iran," and called for an immediate cessation of military action, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said. "The Secretary-General condemns all attacks against civilians. He recalls that all parties must respect their obligations under international humanitarian law, including the principles of distinction, proportionality, and precaution," Dujarric said.
Geneva Airport generates over CHF3 billion for regional economy: report (LINK) — 4 September 2026
— Of the CHF3.3 billion, nearly CHF2 billion went to the canton of Geneva, more than CHF550 million were generated in the neighbouring French region, and around CHF770 million in the rest of Switzerland.
Switzerland has worst summer potato harvest on record: nearly 20% less than the average over the last six years and 130,000 tonnes of potatoes had to be imported (LINK) — 3 September 2026
The 2026 Ig Nobel Prizes (LINK) — 3 September 2026
BIOMECHANICS: Matilda Brindle, Catherine Talbot, and Stuart West for devising a more precise definition of kissing — "non-agonistic interactions involving directed, intraspecific, oral-oral contact with some movement of the lips/mouthparts and no food transfer" — in ants, birds, polar bears, and humans.
ECONOMICS: Paul Piff, Daniel Stancato, Stéphane Côté, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, and Dacher Keltner, for amassing evidence that upper class people are more likely to snatch from a children's supply of candy, and engage in other kinds of unethical behaviour.
CHEMISTRY: Sanchari Banerjee, Nathan Coussens, François-Xavier Gallat, Nitish Sathyanarayanan, Jandhyam Srikanth, Koichiro Yagi, James Gray, Stephen Tobe, Barbara Stay, Leonard Chavas, and Subramanian Ramaswamy for discovering that milk proteins from vivaparous cockroaches packs three times as much energy as milk proteins from cows.
MEDICINE: The late Tokuji Unno, for the study called "How to Blow the Nose — An Aerodynamic Study of the Nose Blowing"
BIOLOGY: João Miguel Alves-Nunes, Adriano Fellone, Selma Maria Almeida-Santos, Carlos Roberto de Medeiros, Ivan Sazima, and Otavio Augusto Vuolo Marques, for gently stepping on various parts of various venomous snakes — repeatedly, at various temperatures at various times of day — to try to learn what does and what does not induce a venomous snake to bite a human.
PHYSICS: Randy Hurd, Zhao Pan, Tadd Truscott, Kaveeshan Thurairajah, for theoretical and experimental attempts to design a splash-free urinal.
TECHNOLOGY: Justin Puma, Zhen Yang, Evan Johnston, Zixin Zhang, Xiaoyi Lan, Lingzhi Zhang, Hongyu Hou, Zixin He, Ali Afify, Megan Creighton, Jianyu Li, and Changhong Cao, for pioneering the use of mosquito proboscises as high-resolution 3D printing nozzles, a process called "Necroprinting".
OLFACTION: Ilona Croy, Tomasz Frackowiak, Thomas Hummel, and Agnieszka Sorokowska, for collecting evidence that babies smell wonderful to their parents, but teenagers do not.
PEACE: Jaimie Arona Krems, Rebecka Hahnel-Peeters, Laureon Merrie, Keelah Williams, and Daniel Sznycer, for documenting that we value friends who are vicious to people we dislike.
SOIL SCIENCE: (Swiss research) Franz Bender, Marcel van der Heijden, Atlant Bieri, and Pia Viviani, for burying 1000 identical pairs of underpants in more than 25 countries, and then digging them up after two months.
Ig Nobel Prizes land in Switzerland on 3 September amid stricter US border policy (LINK) — 3 September 2026
— The prizes have been awarded for 35 years. Until now, they have always been handed out in the US. Researchers receive a genuine, albeit completely worthless, 10-trillion-dollar note from Zimbabwe. In 2008, the Ig Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Swiss National Ethics Commission and the entire Swiss population. The reason: Switzerland had enshrined in law the principle that plants, too, possess dignity.
Wednesday, 2 September 2026
Iran claims attacks on Bahrain, Jordan, Iraq after US strikes kill 11: heaviest exchange of fire between the US and Iran in more than a month (LINK) — 1 September 2026
— Kuwait also reports confronting Iranian attacks, as Tehran responds to US attacks that killed 11 people, including 5 at a wedding party.
Global warming will exceed limit, UNEP says in a report that maps path to get back below danger zone "If we act now we can limit overshoot," the report said. "Not a safe world, but safer than remaining above" 1.5 degrees for the long term (LINK) — 2 September 2026
— Earth is soon going to exceed the safe temperature threshold agreed upon by the world in the 2015 Paris climate accord because of warming from the burning of coal, oil and gas, according to a bleak first-of-its-kind report issued by the United Nations Environment Programme Wednesday. The world is now at 1.4 C (2.5 F) above pre-industrial levels, some scientists have calculated. The measure is based on a 20-year average, rather than a single year's temperatures. Wednesday's report finally admitted that the world will cross the 1.5 threshold "in the next few years." The report said the most optimistic scenario has warming peaking at 1.8 C (3.2 F) around mid-century if countries pursue ambitious climate goals, but that governments' current policies should push temperatures to 2.6 C (4.7 F) above pre-industrial levels by 2100.
Deaths in Congo's fast-moving Ebola outbreak top 3,000, spread of disease shows no signs of slowing: 6000 cases (ground news LINK) — 2 September 2026
— Clinical trials for two antiviral treatments have been under way since early July, while 830 people remain in isolation or treatment and 1409 patients have recovered.
Himalayas face severe glacial flood risks in years ahead, UN official warns (ground news LINK) — 2 September 2026
— The flood destroyed 15 major power stations, severely impacting Nepal's energy stability. Updated data shows 15 million people live within potential impact zones, with 9.3 million residing in High Mountain Asia. Kanni Wignaraja, an assistant secretary-general at the United Nations Development Programme , said Nepal now faces "some very, very hard choices," noting technology cannot prevent loss along massive river systems catching glacial overflow. Global data reveals a 53% increase in glacial lake volume since 1990, signaling rising risks.
More than a dozen Serbian activists targeted with mercenary spyware, digital rights group finds (LINK) — 2 September 2026
Tuesday, 1 September 2026
PassBlue: António Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, recently caused an uproar when he recently declared that "many" of the UN's independent rapporteurs "are totally out of control from the point of view of the Secretariat.": Paying tribute to UN Human Rights Special Rapporteurs (LINK) — 1 September 2026
— There are 13 country-specific mandate holders, including Francesca Albanese, who is the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory, occupied since 1967, and has been under US sanctions since July 2025. Other country-specific mandates include Afghanistan, Belarus, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Eritrea, Iran, Mali, Myanmar, North Korea, Russia and Syria. There are also 46 thematic mandate holders, including Ben Saul, the special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, who publicly welcomed the clarification by spokesman Stéphane Dujarric. Other thematic mandates include violence against women and girls; the rights of Indigenous people; the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change; the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order; the independence of judges and lawyers; and the situation of human rights defenders.
U.S.: Federal judge tosses Trump lawsuit over trans athletes in California school sports: Justice department cannot force state to ban trans girls from women's sports, in major win for LGBTQ+ rights (LINK) — 1 September 2026
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