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6 ways climate change is hurting your health—and what you can do about it

Warming temperatures impact our food, water, air, and overall well-being.

Fortune

A partial solar eclipse will be visible over Chicago this weekend if clouds clear

The “ring of fire” solar eclipse will only happen over the western parts of the U.S. on Saturday. About 43% of the sun will be covered by the moon as seen from Chicago.

Chicago Sun-Times

Nasa's Psyche mission is set for launch – here's how it could unveil the interior secrets of planets

It’s unlikely to be a bad omen, but Nasa’s mission Psyche is currently due to launch on Friday 13 October. Lifting off at 10.19 EDT on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, it faces a perilous journey and isn’t scheduled for arrival at its namesake asteroid, 16 Pscyhe, until 2029.

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'Consent': Film adaptation of French memoir recounting adolescent abuse by older man

In this roundup of the week's arts and culture news, we look at Irish rock group U2's musical tribute to the victims of the Hamas assault at the Supernova desert dance festival. In light of the unprecedented violence in Israel and Gaza, the Arab World Institute in Paris decides to…

France 24

Annular solar eclipse 2023: Precautions must you take as you watch the breathtaking 'ring of fire' spectacle

An annular solar eclipse will occur on October 14. While everyone's excited to witness this amazing celestial event, there are certain things you need to be very careful about so that you don't harm yourself while watching it.

The Times of India

Astronomers have learned lots about the universe − but how do they study astronomical objects too distant to visit?

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, dropping off its sample of dust and pebbles gathered from the surface of near-Earth asteroid Bennu.

The Conversation

Climate expert ‘sacked’ after refusing flight to Germany over carbon emissions

Gianluca Grimalda says he was fired when he refused to return at short notice by plane from a research trip near Papua New Guinea

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How to watch Nasa’s Psyche mission launch

Nasa’s Psyche probe is delayed until tomorrow . Here’s how to watch it live when it takes off

Evening Standard

Take a peek at what NASA brought back from an asteroid

Scientists are thrilled with the tiny asphalt-black rocks, and most of the sample hasn't even been revealed yet.

WEKU

‘It was incredible when she said yes’: why Chaka Khan teamed up with Bombay Bicycle Club

They are London indie stalwarts, she’s a multiple Grammy-winning great. So how on earth did the band end up duetting with the soul legend on their new album?

The Guardian - UK

Israel ups the ante, vows to wipe Hamas ‘off face of the Earth’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hours after forming an emergency government and wartime cabinet, foreshadowed a major ground attack on Gaza by promising to destroy Hamas.

The Times of India

NASA unveils sample scooped from surface of near-Earth asteroid Bennu

US space agency and scientists say sample taken from Bennu contains abundant water and carbon, as well as iron minerals.

Al Jazeera

Scientists Discover Surprising Cause Of Mysterious Radio Signals From Space

Mysterious radio signals debunked as alien contact, attributed to starquakes on neutron stars.

Zenger

Guide to the classics: Ruth Park’s Harp in the South is a story about Aboriginal Country

Ruth Park’s novel The Harp in the South (1948) is a classic of Australian fiction. Just as television viewers in recent decades would recognise “Ramsay Street” as the fictional centre of Australia’s longest-running television soap opera Neighbours, earlier generations of readers would have recognised with affection “Twelve-and-a-half Plymouth Street”: the…

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Samples from asteroid could be key to secrets of building blocks of life – Nasa

The space agency has showed off some of the material collected from a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid for the first time.

Inverse

NASA Just Unveiled the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Samples to the Public — Here’s a First Look

The public got its first look at samples NASA took from asteroid Bennu.

The Independent UK

Nasa opens up pieces of a distant asteroid transported back to Earth

Dark, dusty sample is the biggest ever taken from an asteroid and could reveal where life came from

The Conversation

The afterglow of an explosive collision between giant planets may have been detected in a far-off star system

The afterglow of a massive collision between two giant planets may have been detected for the first time. The wreckage of the collision could eventually cool and form an entirely new planet. If the observation is confirmed, it provides an amazing opportunity to watch the birth of a new world…

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Here's what's driving the record autumn heat (it's not just carbon emissions)

Climate scientists have detected a striking jump in global temperatures during 2023. September was 1.75°C above Earth’s pre-industrial average temperature and a whole half-degree celsius warmer than the previous hottest September.

The Guardian - UK

Afterglow of cataclysmic collision between two planets seen for first time

Collision of two ice giant planets produced hot, spinning object potentially hundreds of times the size of Earth

The Hindu

Five SRM professors on Stanford list of ‘World’s Top 2% Scientists’

Five SRM Univ.-AP professors featured in Stanford's 'World's Top 2% Scientists' list for 2023. Congrats to Karthik Rajendran (energy, biotechnology), Rangabhashiyam Selvasembian (earth, environmental sciences), Randhir Kumar, Kshira Sagar Sahoo & Divya Chaturvedi (ICT) for their research achievements. Last year, Univ. faculty also made the list.

The Conversation

Comets 101 − everything you need to know about the snow cones of space

When you hear the word comet, you might imagine a bright streak moving across the sky. You may have a family member who saw a comet before you were born, or you may have seen one yourself when comet Nishimura passed by Earth in September 2023. But what are these…

Inverse

How to Watch the 2023 Ring of Fire Eclipse

Here's how people across North America can see the annular eclipse on October 14, 2023.

WEKU

This next NASA mission to an asteroid is seriously metal

A NASA mission called Psyche is about to launch on a mission out to an unusual asteroid that's scientists believe is largely composed of metal.

Inverse

Look! The Euclid Spacecraft Accidentally Drew a Doodle in Space

Euclid's mission is to explore the dark universe, but an error resulted in a beautiful image of lassos across the stars.

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