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Early data suggests Pfizer–BioNTech works and is safe in 12-to-15-year-olds. Plus, a long-awaited muon physics experiment and the WHO report into pandemic origins.
Nowhere left on Earth to view the stars without light pollution from space junk and satellites. Plus, how to make indoors safe again and the US is urged to invest in solar-geoengineering studies.
Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine’s rollercoaster ride of a week might be coming to a welcome end. Plus, the first known gene transfer from plant to insect and watch an octopus change colour during active sleep.
Policymakers need insight from humanities and social sciences to tackle the pandemic, argues The British Academy’s Hetan Shah. Plus, the facts about the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID vaccine and ten great environmental books.
The world’s only surviving Stone Age wood carving is even older than previously thought. Plus, electronic skin and the fight against fake-paper factories.
Rare COVID reactions might hold key to variant-proof vaccines. Plus: Biden’s pick for the next head of NASA and carbon emissions from bottom trawling exceed those from air travel.
Non-existent author ‘Camille Noûs’ is a stand-in for collective efforts in science in France. Plus. why achieving COVID herd immunity is probably impossible and understanding humans is hardwired in dog DNA.
First measurements reveal the radius of the Martian core. Plus, climate records discovered in Hawaiian-language newspapers and has the COVID-19 pandemic peaked?
The search for COVID vaccines that can be self-administered, fight new variants and survive the heat. Plus, tear-gland organoids that cry and the winners of the Abel Prize.
Why the WHO’s pandemic warning system failed and how to overhaul it. Plus, a record-breaking year for near-Earth asteroids and what China’s latest five-year plan means for science.
Some countries will soon have billions of spare doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Plus, Achilles' heel spotted for promising HIV-prevention drug and a mind-reading headband for horses.