Classrooms in schools without air conditioning are getting hotter and it's having an impact on teachers and kids.

They found that for every degree hotter a school year was,

it resulted in a 1% decrease in learning.

It's Friday, September 6th, and you're listening to Science Friday.

I'm Cyfry producer D Peter Schmidt.

Kids across the US just kicked off a new school year,

but the summer heat is still here.

In recent years, temperatures have stayed hotter than normal through

September and even into October. And sitting in a sweltering classroom can make learning

really difficult and even dangerous. We'll talk about how learning and teaching have become more challenging as the planet

heats up and what solutions might be on the horizon. But first, here's guest host and

science journalist Sophie Bushwick rounding up the top news in science this week.

This Wednesday an asteroid named 2024 R.W. 1 burned up in the atmosphere above the Philippines.

As asteroids go, it was pretty harmless, but astronomers are still excited about the event.

Here to talk more about the impact is Science Friday's senior producer Charles Berquist.

Hi Charles. Hey Sophie. So tell me more about this asteroid.

Yeah, 2024 R. W1 was an asteroid about a meter across and as you said it burned up in

the atmosphere without doing any damage.

This kind of asteroid really isn't that unusual.

NASA says we get one of this size maybe every two weeks or so.

There were some pictures that captured this particular impact from the ground, but a lot of the people in the Philippines probably didn't get to see it due to weather conditions because there was a typhoon, typhoon yagi in the area at the time.

Wait, if it's not big and it didn't hurt anything and most people didn't even see it, then

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