Tornado Alley is moving east, pancreatic cancer vaccine, watery exoplanet

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May 11, 2023

Weather Watch Out: Tornado Alley Is Migrating Eastward Tornado outbreaks are moving from Texas and Oklahoma toward Tennessee and Kentucky, where people may not be prepared By Mark Fischetti,Matthew Twombly,Daniel P. Huffman

Astronomy Did JWST Just Find Water on a Rocky Exoplanet? Hints of water vapor on a world called GJ 486 b could just as well come from the planet’s host star By Allison Gasparini

Cancer Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Small Initial Trial An mRNA vaccine prevented tumor recurrence after surgery in eight of 16 patients, but the therapy still needs to be validated in larger trials By Tanya Lewis

Cosmology Mirror-Image Supernova Yields Surprising Estimate of Cosmic Growth A new way to gauge the universe’s expansion rate has delivered a confusing result that conflicts with previous related measurements By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Animals These Sharks Hold Their 'Breath' to Stay Warm Scalloped hammerhead sharks take dramatic dives to hunt for food in cold, deep waters—and new evidence suggests they hold their breath to keep warm while they do so By Meghan Bartels

Fossil Fuels New EPA Rules Would Slash Power Plant Emissions The EPA has announced new draft rules that would require power plants that burn fossil fuels to capture 90 percent of their climate-warming emissions By Jean Chemnick,E&E News

Artificial Intelligence How AI Knows Things No One Told It Researchers are still struggling to understand how AI models trained to parrot internet text can perform advanced tasks such as running code, playing games and trying to break up a marriage By George Musser

Extraterrestrial Life JWST's Exoplanet Images Are Just the Beginning of Astrobiology's Future Hints of life on distant worlds will come from signals pioneered by NASA’s jumbo space telescope By Briley Lewis

FROM THE ARCHIVE Tornadoes at Night and in the Southeast Are Especially Deadly Population density and a prevalence of mobile homes make the region a hotspot for tornado deaths By Andrea Thompson | December 2021

WHAT WE'RE READING Why Aren't We Better at Predicting When a Baby is Due? What causes labor is still a mystery, and it’s hurting birthing people and babies. By Anna North | Vox | May 10, 2023

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