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A book from the Oxford–AstraZeneca team, and a documentary, go behind the scenes in the race to vaccinate the world.

The International Space Station was briefly pushed out of position when rockets on a newly docked module accidentally fired. Plus: Female authors get fewer citations in elite medical journals, and why obesity doesn’t always lead to ill health.

Off-campus learning was essential during the pandemic. But when it ends, we should encourage students to return to campus for in-person lectures, says Michael Doran.

Nations short of vaccine should get first doses to curb the pandemic, researchers say.

Real-world evidence from a medical centre links high levels of potent antibodies after vaccination to a reduced risk of infection.

A single individual harbours tens to hundreds of variants of this DNA-based virus, which can move from one person to another in donated blood.

Branching patterns could be evidence of an 890-million-year-old sponge, pushing back the earliest animal fossil by 300 million years.

Papers by women in elite medical journals are half as likely to be cited as are similar articles authored by men, research finds.

A study links high levels of virus-blocking antibodies to reduced risk of infection in vaccinated people. Plus: Turning water into metal, and a fossil that could be from Earth’s earliest known animal.

Long-term follow up finds that more than half of children and adolescents with the disease develop complications within 15 years of diagnosis.

Bumblebees dosed with caffeine can more easily remember the scent of sugar-heavy blossoms.

Researchers debate whether an ancient fossil is the oldest animal yet discovered, and a new way to eavesdrop on glaciers.

Light can be used to both propel and steer tiny vehicles made with materials that have distinctive optical properties.

Spectroscopic measurements confirm that when water is adsorbed on drops of an alkali alloy at low pressure a gold-coloured metallic layer forms as electrons rapidly move from the drop into the water.

Vermiform microstructure in microbial reefs dating to approximately 890 million years ago resembles the body fossils of Phanerozoic demosponges, and may represent the earliest known physical evidence of animals.

A multidisciplinary method for managing triggered seismicity is developed using detailed subsurface information to calibrate geomechanical and earthquake source physics models, and is applied to the Val d’Agri oil field in seismically active southern Italy.

Global loss of targeted protein degradation with age results in harmful accumulation of specific proteins in worms.

Angle-dependent magnetoresistance measurements of a strange-metal phase of a hole-doped cuprate show a well defined Fermi surface and an isotropic linear-in-temperature scattering rate that saturates at the Planckian limit.