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🗓️ 23 September 2024

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In this week’s news roundup: Earth might have previously had a giant ring of space rocks like the one around Saturn, “scuba diving” lizards are using bubbles to breathe, and a new study mapped brain changes in a person throughout pregnancy. Additionally, we describe how NASA’s stranded astronauts will vote from space. E-mail us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new everyday: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was edited by Anaissa Ruiz Tejada. Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck fact-check our show. Our theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.6	Happy Monday listeners.
0:38.4	Let's kick off the week by catching up on the latest science news.
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0:51.9	First up, we've got an update on Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams.
0:56.0	These two NASA astronauts set out to spend just over a week in space in June, but now they
1:00.7	won't actually be home until around February.
1:03.9	Earlier this month, not long after the ill-fated Starliner spacecraft returned to Earth without
1:08.1	them on board, the pair conducted a press release from the International Space Station. Sunni said they're making the most of their extra time in space by
1:15.0	being the best crewmates they can be, and both noted that they're looking forward to voting in the
1:19.4	2024 presidential election. They've sent in their request for absentee ballots, which will be
1:24.4	encrypted and downlinked to their local county clerk's office. Both will have to list their current address as, quote, low Earth orbit, which will be encrypted and downlinked to their local county clerk's office.
1:27.8	Both will have to list their current address as, quote, low Earth orbit, which is kind of adorable.
1:33.6	So if voting on November 5th means standing in a long line or dealing with other inconvenient logistics,
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