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September 24, 2021

Vaccines When Will Kids' COVID Vaccines Be Available? Pfizer expects to have safety and efficacy data on five- to 11-year-olds by the end of the month, but federal authorities must still review it By Tara Haelle

Quantum Physics Is There a Thing, or a Relationship between Things, at the Bottom of Things? Quantum mechanics inspires us to speculate that interactions between entities, not entities in themselves, are fundamental to reality By John Horgan

Psychology Making Eye Contact Signals a New Turn in a Conversation Neuroscientists have uncovered an intriguing subtlety in how we communicate—that is, when we're not on Zoom By Lydia Denworth

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Inequality Why the Term 'JEDI' Is Problematic for Describing Programs That Promote Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion They're meant to be heroes within the Star Wars universe, but the Jedi are inappropriate symbols for justice work By J. W. Hammond,Sara E. Brownell,Nita A. Kedharnath,Susan J. Cheng,W. Carson Byrd

Weather Storm-Steering Jet Stream Could Shift Poleward in 40 Years Changes in the position of the fast-moving air current could disrupt weather patterns By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Astronomy The Nail-Biting Journey of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Is About to Begin Before it can study the first stars and galaxies, the observatory must endure a sea voyage, a rocket launch and an all-or-nothing deployment sequence in deep space By Nikk Ogasa

Medicine How Music Can Literally Heal the Heart Its structural attributes and physiological effects make it an ideal tool for learning cardiology, studying heart-brain interactions and dispensing neurocardiac therapy By Elaine Chew,Psyche Loui,Grace Leslie,Caroline Palmer,Jonathan Berger,Edward W. Large,Nicolò F. Bernardi,Suzanne Hanser,Julian F. Thayer,Michael A. Casey,Pier D. Lambiase

Agriculture Agroecology Is the Solution to World Hunger Millions of farmers are growing and sharing food in ways that enhance nutrition, biodiversity and quality of life By Raj Patel

Space Exploration SpaceX's Private Inspiration4 Crew Is Back on Earth The crew's splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean marks the historic mission's end By Amy Thompson,SPACE.com

Engineering Winged Microchips Glide like Tree Seeds The tiny sensors could gather and transmit environmental data as they drift through the air By Nikk Ogasa

Behavior Discrimination Persists in Society--but Who Discriminates? Is discriminatory behavior widely dispersed or highly concentrated in a small number of people? By David Z. Hambrick

Extraterrestrial Life Astronomers Should Be Willing to Look Closer at Weird Objects in the Sky The Galileo Project seeks to train telescopes on unidentified aerial phenomena By Avi Loeb

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Health & Medicine, Volume 3, Issue 5

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BRING SCIENCE HOME A Really Long Straw Why aren't there more super-long straws? Learn how your mouth "vacuums" up beverages when you sip through a straw--and build your own mega straw to learn about the physics behind this impressive everyday feat! How long can you go? Credit: George Retseck Have you ever used a crazy straw? Some spiral their way up. Others have fancy colors or decorations. Some are thin and others are wide. But just about all of them leave you sipping your drink from about the same distance. Why? Wouldn't it be fun to poke your head out of an upstairs window and secretly take a sip from a drink way below? Would it even be possible? With this activity, you'll see if you can set your own record for the longest working straw!

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