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The first reported millipede to live up to its name. Plus, Afghan academics despair under the Taliban, and how to track the rise of Omicron and other variants.
Graphics explain how vaccines shaped the year. Plus we meet Nature’s 10: profiles of people who helped shape science in 2021, and hear that the Arctic is warming twice as fast as reported.
The extraordinary vaccination of more than four billion people, and the lack of access for many others, were major forces this year — while Omicron’s arrival complicated things further.
Researchers are rapidly sequencing the genomes of virus samples worldwide, but shortcomings in the global surveillance system make the task a challenge.
A framework for selective sulfidation is proposed for the practical separation and enrichment of numerous metallic elements, to enable environmentally and economically sustainable metal processing.
A stringed instrument more than 1,000 years old found in what is now Kazakhstan is nearly identical to one from the Sutton Hoo ‘ship burial’ in Britain.