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September 30, 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

Astronomy See Jupiter Shine During its Closest Approach to Earth Since 1963 September 26 marks an unmissable chance to view the massive planet Jupiter, whose opposition and perigee very rarely coincide By Robert Lea,SPACE.com

Vaccines When Should You Get the New COVID Booster and the Flu Shot? Now is a good time to get both your COVID and flu shots, according to a nurse and public health expert By Libby Richards,The Conversation US

Sponsor Content Provided by Fondazione Prada "Human Brains: Preserving the Brain - Forum on Neurodegenerative Diseases" Fondazione Prada presents the fourth phase of "Human Brains", a scientific project devoted to neurosciences. "Preserving the Brains" aims to stimulate an open and critical exchange between international scientists and experts on neurodegenerative diseases.

Geology Ultra Rare Diamond Suggests Earth's Mantle Has an Ocean's Worth of Water A diamond contains the only known sample of a mineral from Earth's mantle—and hints at oceans' worth of water hidden deep within our planet By Stephanie Pappas

Planetary Science NASA's DART Spacecraft Successfully Smacks a Space Rock--Now What? The DART spacecraft has purposefully crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, hopefully changing its orbit by a few minutes, in a milestone test of future planetary defense techniques By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Pharmaceuticals New Execution Method Touted as More 'Humane,' but Evidence Is Lacking A legal battle over nitrogen hypoxia, a new potential method of execution, raises ethical questions By Dana G. Smith

Planetary Science China's Mars Rover Finds Hints of Catastrophic Floods Radar images from the Zhurong rover reveal clues to the history of a largely unexplored region By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

Neurology Dementia in Prison Is Turning into an Epidemic: The U.S. Penal System Is Badly Unprepared Older prisoners will make up a third of the prison population in a decade, and many of them will develop dementia By Sara Novak

Animals These Spiders Use Their Webs like Huge, Silky Ears A study of orb-weaving spiders shows that the arachnids' webs pick up a range of sounds—and that they are always "listening" for vibrations coming in over them. By Karen Hopkin | 05:53

Pollution The Race to Stop a Plastics Plant Scores a Crucial Win In Louisiana, home to miles of polluting industries, slowing the progress of Formosa Plastics is critical to social and environmental justice By Judith Enck,Rebekah Creshkoff

Renewable Energy Build a Better Floating Wind Turbine and Win $7 Million from the Department of Energy A new contest aims to jump-start U.S. production of floating wind turbines to place in ocean waters too deep for standard designs By John Fialka,E&E News

Behavior Truth under Attack By Andrea Gawrylewski

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BRING SCIENCE HOME "X" Marks the Spot: Finding the Center of Mass Can you find the center of a shape? You'll be able to--even for the oddest oblong creation--with this simple science activity. No strings attached (okay, maybe one)!  Credit: George Retseck With a little time, you can probably find the center of simple shapes such as circles and squares pretty easily. But how do you find the "middle" of an irregular shape such as a drawing of a dog or a cat? This project will show you how to do it using nothing but string and paper clips!

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