Click Here to Read:  Asteroid Bennu could shatter Earth. Here’s how Sunday’s OSIRIS-REx mission will stop it: There’s a higher chance of the asteroid striking the Earth than you finding a four-leaf clover. Scientists have 160 years to deflect it by Noa Leach on the Science Focus website on September 23, 2023.

Asteroid101955 Bennu.  Image: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Common.

Click Here to Read:  Neanderthal Genes Are Linked to Severe Covid Risk Study in Italy’s worst pandemic hot spot sheds light on why some people fell seriously ill and others didn’t by Margherita Stancati in The Wall Street Journal on September 16, 2023.

Click Here to Read: Why the earliest galaxies are sparking drama and controversy among astronomers by Regina G. Barber, Rachel Carlson, Berly McCoy and Rebecca Ramirez on the NPR website on September 18, 2023.

INASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail mage: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STSc Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Click Here to Read: Can We Talk to Whales? Researchers believe that artificial intelligence may allow us to speak to other species By Elizabeth Kolbert in the New Yorker on September 4, 2023

Humpback whales in the singing position. Humpback Whale NMS.  Image: Dr. Louis M. Herman  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Click Here to Read: Scientists Say They’ve Found the Largest Asteroid Impact Crater Hiding in Plain Sight: They believe they’ve discovered what time and erosion have concealed. BY Tim Newcom on the Popular Mechanics website on  September 1, 2023.

New South Wales in Australia,  Image:  TUBS Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.