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The Surgisphere scandal and a spate of spider-paper retractions top the list. Plus, how Biden can rebuild the ravaged EPA and a photo that took eight years to snap.
Genetic variations that could make some people more susceptible to severe COVID-19, Nature’s 10 and the Drosophila stockeepers who keep the fruit flies flowing.
HIV protein fragment posed no risk to human health, but could interfere with HIV screening tests. Plus, China launches twin-satellite mission and a COVID vaccine is poised for authorization in the US.
The mass of human-made things just exceeded the planet’s total living biomass. Plus, the coolest molecules of the year and how children’s immune systems evade COVID-19.
The AstraZeneca–Oxford vaccine is safe and effective, but the data highlight a number of lingering unknowns. Plus, two gene-therapy trials offer hope for sickle-cell anaemia and how the first life on Earth survived its biggest threat — water.
The new official height of the highest spot on Earth is 8,848.86 metres. Plus, how to understand COVID vaccine trial data and the implosion of the billion-euro Human Brain Project.
UK hospitals will start giving people the Pfizer—BioNTech vaccine on Tuesday. Plus, samples returning from the asteroid Ryugu and the Moon and the huge toll of snakebites on survivors in India.
A treasure trove of new data from the Gaia space observatory, physicists in China challenge Google’s ‘quantum advantage’ and how to write a superb literature review.
A sustainable ocean economy, video of the moment the Arecibo telescope collapsed and scientists have restored vision in old mice by reversing their biological clocks.
The UK will start to roll out the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine within days. Plus, China’s Chang’e-5 spacecraft successfully lands on the Moon and we are ‘within striking distance’ of the Paris climate goals.
The Arecibo telescope is lost. Plus, how COVID vaccines are being divvied up around the world and what the much-loved programming language Rust can do for scientists.
Tens of thousands of ice-age paintings stretch across nearly 13 kilometres of remote cliffs. Plus, DeepMind makes a protein-folding breakthrough and a top Iranian nuclear scientist has been assassinated.
The first known African plant to use reptiles as its primary pollinator, how to adapt when your fieldwork is cancelled and neutrinos reveal the Sun’s inner workings.
Is Japan’s COVID lucky streak nearing its end? Plus, questions besiege the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID vaccine and how to build an unofficial board of mentors.
Mistake led to striking improvement for COVID vaccine, how Iceland hammered COVID with science and ways Joe Biden can achieve his ambitious climate agenda.
