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October 29, 2021

Climate Change Vapor Storms Are Threatening People and Property More moisture in a warmer atmosphere is fueling intense hurricanes and flooding rains By Jennifer A. Francis

Anthropology Date of the Vikings' First Atlantic Crossing Revealed by Rays from Space By dating the remnants of trees felled in Newfoundland, scientists have determined that the Norse people likely first set foot in the Americas in the year A.D. 1021. By Christopher Intagliata | 02:49

Astronomy NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Will Face '29 Days on the Edge' The observatory must complete about 50 major deployments after liftoff By Elizabeth Howell,SPACE.com

Sponsor Content Provided by AstraZeneca Meet the 2021 C2 Awards Honorees Redefining cancer care takes a community. The third annual Cancer Community Awards (or C2 Awards) celebrate the grassroots changemakers on the frontlines of cancer care. Meet this year’s honorees and learn more at YourCancer.org.

Vaccines COVID Vaccine Makers Prepare for a Variant Worse Than Delta Companies are updating vaccines and testing them on people to prepare for whatever comes next in the pandemic By Emily Waltz,Nature magazine

Artificial Intelligence AI Generates Hypotheses Human Scientists Have Not Thought Of Machine-learning algorithms can guide humans toward new experiments and theories By Robin Blades

Climate Change Nominees for a Science Award Were All White Men -- Nobody Won A protest by a group of scientists has ignited spirited discussions about the persistent lack of diversity in such awards By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Neurology Can Intense Exercise Lead to ALS? New studies show a possible connection. But debate over such an association will continue By Diana Kwon

Animals Giant Lemurs Are the First Mammals (besides Us) Found to Use Rhythm Indris’ dramatic family “songs” show repeatable timing patterns By Jack Tamisiea

Climate Change There's Still Time to Fix Climate--About 11 Years Aggressive policies, enacted now, can extend the deadline and prevent the worst catastrophes By Mark Fischetti

Animals Home Alone: The Fate of Postpandemic Dogs Our canine companions have become accustomed to having their humans around 24/7 By Jessica Pierce,Marc Bekoff

Dark Energy Could Gravity's Quantum Origins Explain Dark Energy? A potentially transformative theoretical study links a new model of quantum gravity with the universe’s bizarrely accelerating rate of expansion By Conor Purcell

Reproduction What Dune Reveals about Reproductive Control and Eugenics A new adaption offers an opportunity to revisit the overlooked biology in Herbert’s classic tale By Andrew J. Mongue,Caitlin E. McDonough-Goldstein

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BRING SCIENCE HOME Strength in Numbers: Spaghetti Beams Will it bend or will it break? Learn how engineers study materials for use in the construction of bridges and buildings. Build your own bridge out of strands of pasta and see how strong it can be!  Credit: George Retseck Have you ever helped cook a pot of spaghetti? Strands of spaghetti are pretty long, so sometimes people break them in half so they more easily fit into the pot. How exactly does spaghetti break? And what does this have to do with science? It turns out engineers and materials scientists study how materials break when they are bent. Although professional engineers might be more concerned with steel beams in a bridge, you can do a fun experiment with pasta in your kitchen!

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