How Hurricane Season Went from Quiet to a 'Powder Keg'

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September 29, 2022

Weather How Hurricane Season Went from Quiet to a 'Powder Keg' For nearly two months, the Atlantic had no hurricane activity. Then September arrived with a flurry of storms By Andrea Thompson

Public Health Everything You Need to Know about Polio in the U.S. People fully vaccinated against polio have little to fear By Emily Willingham

Engineering For 'The First Lady of Engineering,' Freedom Meant Facing Down Racism and Sexism ... And Breaking Her Own Rules Yvonne Y. Clark, known as Y.Y. throughout her career, had a lifetime of groundbreaking achievements as a Black female mechanical engineer. In the second episode of the newest season of the Lost Women of Science podcast, we see Y.Y.'s true grit as she fights for recognition and a place at the science table By Katie Hafner,Carol Sutton Lewis,The Lost Women of Science Initiative

Animals Giraffes vs. Blue Whales vs. Dinosaurs: Contest Reveals Which One Builds Its Nervous System Fastest to Evade Predators One megafauna extends its nerve fibers at an astonishing rate of five centimeters per day By Douglas H. Smith,Jeffrey M. Rodgers,Jean-Pierre Dollé,Mathew J. Wedel

Animals See How a Parasite Travels from Tiny Crustacean to Fish to Bird A tiny bug manipulates the behavior of its hosts to ensure its unlikely life cycle By Madhusree Mukerjee

Natural Disasters How to Protect Puerto Rico's Power Grid from Hurricanes Energy experts say localized solar plants could strengthen Puerto Rico's dangerously fragile grid By Anna Blaustein

Culture 'Longtermism' Movement Misses the Importance of War A moral movement called longtermism, which focuses on protecting humanity's future, dwells too much on artificial intelligence and not enough on war By John Horgan

Public Health The Government is Racing to Put Your Toilet Under Surveillance--For a Good Reason A relatively new type of snooping—we will call it poop snooping—could help us all react more quickly to new coronavirus variants or to future pandemics. By Luke Groskin

Planetary Science Extra Hard Space Diamonds May Have Formed in an Ancient Cosmic Collision A new formation method for rare "lonsdaleite" diamonds may illuminate a better way to produce them on Earth By Daniel Leonard

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