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How artificial intelligence tools might remake the scientific enterprise. Plus, scientists discover a new type of ice and researchers explore how long COVID-19 immunity lasts.
Pots from a 2,500-year-old embalming workshop reveal mummification ingredients. Plus, what it will take to put a solar power station in space and how to write a popular science bestseller.
Colossal Biosciences says its genetic technologies could revive the extinct bird. Plus, how scientists are rethinking the origins of depression and visual guide to the next generation of COVID-19 vaccines.
Caffeine blocks a brain receptor to stave off the drowsy feeling — but it can return with a vengeance. Plus, pandemic school closures cost children one-third of a year’s learning and how machines could spot alien signals that humans miss.
How funders can remove the systemic barriers faced by mothers in academia. Plus, voles’ relationships don’t need the ‘love hormone’ and all about the three vaccines poised to fight respiratory syncytial virus.
Astronomers recorded this supernova nearly 850 years ago and its remains are stunning. Plus, the five best science books of the week, and should COVID-19 vaccines be given yearly?
Laboratory studies show that antidepressants ramp up bacteria’s defence mechanisms. Plus, liquid-metal robots can melt and re-form and debate rages over disruptive science.
Scientists are working to define the first official lunar time. Plus, evidence that bird flu can spread in mink and the path from scientist to starting your own business.
Huge health-record review links viral illnesses to elevated risk of brain disease. Plus, Earth’s inner core might have slowed its spin and many of Australia’s researchers are miserable at work.
Long reads could one day routinely decipher entire genomes. Plus, carbon capture nets 2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide each year and the Hubble Space Telescope still has plenty of life left.
Hundreds of online adverts are selling author positions on papers. Plus, our microbiomes are influenced by our housemates, and try these fun behavioural-science games.
Moderna reports that its vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus is effective in older adults. Plus, how your first brush with COVID changes your immunity and the first-ever transgenic ants glow to show brain activity.
An estimated 10% of people will experience long-lasting symptoms after catching COVID-19. Plus, a publishing stalemate at CERN over the Russian invasion and a giant laser that can divert lightning strikes.
Men have conceived children, on average, 7 years later than women have throughout the past 250,000 years. Plus, ‘Green pea’ galaxies kicked off a watershed epoch in the history of the Universe and how to find small private grants.
ChatGPT can write passable abstracts. Plus, vaccine incentives don’t backfire and the largest floral fossil ever discovered preserved in amber gets new name.
Honeybees in the United States can now be inoculated against a highly contagious bacterial disease. Plus, a successful geoengineering trial to counter ocean acidification and the five best science books this week.
Why has the proportion of papers that shake up a field plummeted over the last 50 years? Plus, Brazil’s president takes steps to protect the Amazon and a new class of obesity drugs shows striking results.
