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NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft captures the ripples in interstellar plasma, a brain implant turns thoughts into text and how nature-based solutions can help cool the planet — if we act now.
How to protect yourself and your academic career from bullying. Plus, the month’s best science images and what we know about coronavirus variants now spreading in India.
The WHO’s Solidarity COVID drug trial will restart with a focus on immune responses. Plus, how to thrive as a pandemic PhD student and how NASA is ramping up to fight climate change.
Evidence from Qatar’s second wave indicates that vaccines can stop the worrying B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 variants. Plus, the earliest known human burial in Africa and tiny drums demonstrate quantum entanglement in a big way.
Signs of fission in a room entombed at Chernobyl. Plus, the US backs waiving patents on COVID vaccines and exploring what level of coronavirus risk societies will accept.
Female high-school soccer players are twice as likely as their male counterparts to get a concussion. Plus, China’s COVID vaccines are going global and the first genetically modified mosquitoes are released in the United States.
Area in Saudi Arabia might be the oldest large-scale ritual landscape in the world. Plus, the health risks of microplastics and how undergraduates are coping with curtailed opportunities during the pandemic.
One billion COVID vaccinations is ‘an unprecedented scientific achievement’. Plus, the scientist leading Cuba’s efforts towards a homegrown vaccine, and the secret of weird phage DNA.
The official numbers might not reflect the true COVID death toll in India. Plus, the cellular clocks that help explain why elephants are bigger than mice, and how we might talk to animals.
Resources for scientists who want to think more deeply about ethics, logic and other big questions. Plus, what’s next for a promising malaria vaccine and the causes of Brazil’s devastating COVID surge.
How physicists might fix a possible crack in the standard model. Plus, how a historic funding boom might transform the NSF and how to write a great personal statement.
A malaria vaccine is effective in children in a small trial. Plus, the US pledges to dramatically slash greenhouse-gas emissions, and one of the world’s longest-running experiments.
Perseverance rover synthesizes oxygen from carbon dioxide on Mars. Plus, the first COVID-19 vaccine trials in children and more than 20 million years of life have been lost to the pandemic.
The pandemic is sweeping through India at a pace that has staggered scientists. Plus, COVID is hobbling the fight against other dangerous diseases and video of the Ingenuity helicopter flying on Mars.
Irreplaceable records lost in University of Cape Town library fire. Plus, the trials studying long COVID, and what might underlie the very rare blood clots that have been linked with two COVID-19 vaccines.
What scientists want to know about COVID vaccines and blood clots, the first flight on Mars and why a scientific career isn’t a pipeline, it’s a braided river.
Researchers estimate the T. rex population over the 2 million or so years they existed. Plus, the first monkey–human embryos reignite the chimaera debate, and how to curb the spread of COVID-19 vaccine disinformation.
SARS-CoV-2 variants and the future of the pandemic, the tough problem of space junk and India’s COVID-vaccine crunch is putting global supplies at risk.