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  1. Planetary Science

    Huge cyclone churns at Saturn’s north pole

    Planetary scientists have gotten their closest look yet at polar storms on the ringed planet. These polar cyclones are big enough to engulf Earth.

    By Ron Cowen
  2. Space

    Hubble, heal thyself

    NASA scientists are cleared to remotely switch equipment on the Hubble Space Telescope in the hopes of restoring the orbiting observatory’s function by October 16.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Health & Medicine

    Society for Neuroscience annual meeting

    Daily reports from Science News staff from the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting.

    By Science News
  4. Planetary Science

    So close, yet so far away

    Astronomers have found, in the frozen reaches beyond Neptune, two gravitationally bound objects that compose the most widely spaced binary system known in the solar system.