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As debates about booster shots heat up, what’s known about the duration of vaccine-based immunity is still evolving.

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New type of dark energy could solve Universe expansion mystery

Hints of a previously unknown, primordial form of the substance could explain why the cosmos now seems to be expanding faster than theory predicts.

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Vast CO₂ release from Australian fires in 2019–2020 constrained by satellite

The amount of carbon dioxide released by the Australian wildfires of 2019–2020 is uncertain, but is estimated here using satellite observations of carbon monoxide to be more than twice the amount suggested by fire inventories.

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Daily briefing: Evidence from Israel for COVID-vaccine boosters

A third COVID shot for people over 60 seems to drop the risk of severe disease by 19.5%. Plus, a new type of dark energy could solve a mystery about the Universe, and coronaviruses might jump from bats to humans 400,000 times per year.

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Australian funder backflips on controversial preprint ban

Scientists welcome the move, but say the funder should have gone further by also reconsidering grant applications previously ruled ineligible.

Clare Watson

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A meander around many circulatory systems
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The fight to manufacture COVID vaccines in lower-income countries
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Activation of TIR signalling boosts pattern-triggered immunity

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Vast CO₂ release from Australian fires in 2019–2020 constrained by satellite

The amount of carbon dioxide released by the Australian wildfires of 2019–2020 is uncertain, but is estimated here using satellite observations of carbon monoxide to be more than twice the amount suggested by fire inventories.

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An engineered IL-2 partial agonist promotes CD8⁺ T cell stemness

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The diffuse γ-ray background is dominated by star-forming galaxies

The diffuse, isotropic background of gamma rays comes mainly from star-forming galaxies, according to a physical model of gamma-ray emission.

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