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September 30, 2022

Climate Change Hundreds of Hospitals Are at Risk of Hurricane Flooding Florida hospitals are among the most vulnerable to flooding during hurricanes, but others along the East Coast and Gulf Coast are at risk, too By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Planetary Science Fresh Images Reveal Fireworks from DART's Asteroid Impact The celestial crash between NASA's DART spacecraft and the asteroid Dimorphos is yielding spectacular pictures and data By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

Neurology Alzheimer's Drug Slows Mental Decline in Trial--But Is It a Breakthrough? Researchers are cautiously optimistic following companies' announcement of positive results for lecanemab By McKenzie Prillaman,Nature magazine

Statistics Statistics Are Being Abused, but Mathematicians Are Fighting Back An expert explains how numbers can mislead and what she's doing to help people understand them better By Manon Bischoff

Psychology How Much People Write Can Reveal Racial Biases Society's stereotypes can slip into communication in subtle ways By Ayelet Fishbach

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

Geology The Milky Way's Spiral Arms May Have Carved Earth's Continents A controversial new theory suggests the Milky Way galaxy's arms sent comets hurtling toward early Earth, where impacts built new continental crust By Shannon Hall

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

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

Ecology Poem: 'Diptych: Abscission and Marcescence' Science in meter and verse By Nicola Healey

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