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A tale of two crises • The covid-19 vaccine success has lessons for action on climate change
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Earth in the danger zone • The planet is set to see significant warming, but there are still things we can do to slow the rising temperature, reports Adam Vaughan
What we know so far • More than half a year into the mission to vaccinate the world against covid-19, we are beginning to get a picture of how well the leading vaccines are working
Oxford/AstraZeneca • Widely used in the UK, the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is effective at preventing deaths and hospitalisations
Pfizer/BioNTech • A third dose of this mRNA vaccine is already being rolled out as a booster shot for the over-60s in Israel
Moderna • The protective effect of this mRNA vaccine against the original variant still looks strong six months later
The ones that got away
Johnson & Johnson • More than 13 million people in the US have received this vaccine, which only requires a single shot
Do vaccines affect long covid?
Covaxin • Approved for emergency use in India, Covaxin uses a weakened form of the coronavirus itself
Sputnik V • This Russian vaccine is similar to the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, but with a twist
China’s coronavirus vaccines • Three key Chinese vaccines are in use outside of China, particularly in low-income countries, but their efficacy varies
More in the pipeline
Dolphins use mud to fish • Sophisticated fishing technique seen in two unrelated groups
Solar plane that will stay in the air for months
Organic blobs built in lab may be step towards synthetic life
Both boys and girls tend to write stories about boys
A true quantum time crystal • A strange phase of matter has been made inside Google’s quantum computer
Menopause research may help improve fertility treatment
Moon may have always had a puny magnetic field
Post is a first class way to send sperm
Secrets of arachnid’s grasping legs cracked
Really brief
Breeding left giant dinos with a thirst
Geometry of triangles was in use long before Pythagoras
Pleas to cut calories, salt and sugar fail
Record-breaking Olympics • World records tumbled at an impressive rate on the athletics track at this year’s Olympic games. Was new technology responsible, asks Laura Healey
#FactsMatter • What even is toxicity? People often ask me what plants are toxic, but giving concrete answers on the subject is more complicated than you might imagine, writes James Wong
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Signal Boost • Welcome to our Signal Boost project – a page for charitable organisations to get their message out to a global audience, free of charge. Today, a message from Canine Partners
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The rising star of Vera Rubin • The stellar career of the astronomer who brought dark matter into the mainstream was a trailblazer for many others, writes Vijaysree Venkatraman
A digital love story • Can a perfectly crafted humanoid robot get under the skin of an academic in this tragi-comic sci-fi, asks Jon O’Brien
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