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Podcast: Daily Science News
Episode: Thursday September 21st, 2023: Astronaut breaks record, OSIRIS-REx adjusts course, astronomy photo winners & more
Description: Astronaut Rubio's record-setting spaceflight, OSIRIS-REx's final course adjustment, astronomy photo contest winners, citizen science project on bird populations, political scientist Robert Benewick's passing, facial approximation of medieval man with dwarfism, insect that drills through plastic, photos of rare seven-arm octopus, massive alligator gar catch in Texas, unusual behaviors of mugger crocodiles, discovery of ancient wooden structures in Zambia, plastics spill in Queensland, thermodynamic systems for generating electricity from ocean temperatures deemed unviable, 'ghost' particles from the sun and dark matter detection, and a deep crater on the lunar south pole.