‘Flying’ Joro Spiders Are No Big Deal, and Starlink Satellites Are Not So Great for The Ozone Layer

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

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This week’s news roundup features spiders, space and the Supreme Court. “Flying” Joro spiders are making headlines, but are they really taking over the East Coast? Extreme heat leads Greece to close the Acropolis and worry about what the rest of the summer will bring. Levels of ozone-depleting hydrochlorofluorocarbons are on the decline. Plus, satellite reentry releases ozone-damaging aluminum oxide, and access to medication abortion is preserved. Recommended viewing: The Ozone Hole Showed Humans Could Damage Earth and That We Could Heal It E-mail us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for our daily Today in Science newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Carin Leong, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman. Our show is edited by Elah Feder, Alexa Lim, and Anaissa Ruiz Tejada, with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	I'm home from vacation and plug back into the 24-hour news cycle so you don't have to be.
0:34.4	Let's get the week started by catching up on some of the science stories you may
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0:49.3	We're in the midst of some scorching weather here in the eastern half of the US and we are not alone.
0:54.8	Last week an unusually early heat wave hit Greece and temperatures in Athens soared up to
0:59.9	104 degrees Fahrenheit which is 40 degrees Celsius for you metric nerds.
1:05.2	Conditions in the Greek capital were so dangerous last Wednesday and Thursday that the
1:09.3	ancient Acropolis actually closed down all afternoon on both days.
1:13.0	That site is so popular with tourists that last year the country
1:17.0	started capping visitors at 20,000 per day,
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