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Welcome to Science Podcast for September 8th, 2017.

I'm Sarah Crespi.

In this week's show, Sabrina McCormick talks with us about climate science in the U.S. courts and the growing role of the judiciary in climate policy.

And David Grimm is here with this week's hits from our online news site.

Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site.

He's here to talk about some recent online stories.

Hi, Dave.

Hey, Sarah. Okay, somehow this week has turned into physics week. I think all three stories have some kind of physics to them.

First up, we have a story on spinning cylindrical sails. These sails kind of look like a tall silo,

just sticking up out of the deck of a ship, and they turn.

And this rotation, when it interacts with the right kind of wind, pushes the ship forward.

Now, this isn't a new idea, right, Dave?

Right, this is known as the Magnus Effect, which was first described in the 1850s.

And basically this is sort of you've got an object like a ball, let's say, that's

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