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Wolves infected with a parasite that commonly infects cats are more likely to become leaders of the pack or strike out on their own. Plus, a call to include aerosols in climate risk assessments and Europe’s Mars rover mission plugs a Russia-shaped funding hole.
Stunning photographs snapped by NASA’s Artemis I mission, how to make COP27’s breakthrough ‘loss and damage’ fund work and a possible fix for time-sapping peer review.
Researchers are sweeping beaches and using satellites to gather data that will support a landmark anti-plastic pollution treaty. Plus, preventive antibiotics for sexually transmitted infections and the future of animal-to-human transplants.
People conceived during the Great Depression show signs of ageing faster than they should. Plus, new prefixes for really big numbers and ‘a new era of behavioural climate research’.
The final text from the global climate conference fell flat on fossil fuels but delivered a long-sought agreement on ‘loss and damage’. Plus, say goodbye to the ‘leap second’ and learn how to protect your ideas from getting scooped.
Engraved artifact could prove the existence of written Vasconic — the language that developed into Basque. Plus, COP27 blasts through its deadline and the JWST spots some of the most distant galaxies ever seen.
Research whose funding is backed by the failed FTX cryptocurrency exchange face uncertainty. Plus, Artemis launches new era of lunar exploration and metrologists vote on ditching the leap second.
Population growth is slowing, and, within a few decades, it will begin to shrink. Plus, Egypt’s climate scientists speak out and how big data is transforming the World Cup.
Number theorist Yitang Zhang has cracked long-sought prime number solutions before — has he done it again? Plus, the world’s biggest telescope is built in China and international graduate students face racism and bureaucracy.
A small clinical trial has shown that CRISPR gene editing can alter immune cells so that they seek out and destroy a person’s cancer. Plus: why colds and flu are back with a vengeance.
Genomes show that SARS-CoV-2 and bat coronaviruses shared an ancestor just a few years ago, but it will be very difficult to find. Plus, octopuses throw things at each other and how to build a better lab coat.
UN report calls out companies that invest in fossil fuels, buy shoddy carbon credits and lobby against climate policies. Plus, a new vaccine for dengue how scientists can learn to better inform policy decisions.
Physicist Roger Penrose and others call for leaders to to speak out for political prisoners in Egypt. Plus, what the US midterm elections mean for science and the month’s best science images.
eLife’s plan to publish all papers that it sends for peer review divides researchers. Plus, the carbon footprint of a ‘Higgs factory’ and attacks on Ukraine strain nuclear-safety treaties.
Models suggest distributing COVID-19 vaccines more fairly might have saved more than a million lives in 2021. Plus, how to decarbonize the military and what to look out for at COP27.
“This is the pediatrician’s COVID”. Plus, Meta AI predicts the shapes of 600 million proteins and developing a daily nasal spray to ward off coronavirus.
Some people in China are breathing in their booster doses. Plus, scientists in Brazil widely welcome the election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as president, and there is evidence that early-career biomedical scientists are more innovative and creative.
The Supreme Court will consider whether universities are allowed to use race as a factor in deciding which students they admit. Plus, the COVID ‘variant soup’ makes surges hard to predict, and how AI might help with your next paper.