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COVID-19 vaccine technology could help to protect us from other diseases. Plus: the genetic origins of modern domestic horses and a false-alarm ‘alien’ signal.
Researchers have dated a Norse settlement in Canada to ad 1021. Plus: why elephants are evolving to lose their tusks, and how mix-and-match COVID vaccines have aced the effectiveness test.
An extinct Japanese wolf might be the closest wild relative of dogs, how vaccine makers are bracing for a variant worse than Delta and the broken $100-billion promise of climate finance.
Unvaccinated people who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 are at risk of reinfection within a couple years, models propose. Plus, why fossil-fuel subsidies are so hard to kill and how refugee scientists are keeping their research dreams alive.
As companies fill low-Earth orbit with thousands of satellites, it's becoming a new region of environmental dissent. Plus, tips for writing a popular-science book, and a super-precise measure of the neutron’s lifetime leaves a mystery unsolved.
Why do people who have recovered from COVID-19 show such spectacular immune responses when they get vaccinated? Plus, the first mission to the Trojan asteroids is ready to launch and how eclectic acupuncture zaps inflammation in mice.
Charred seeds push the earliest tobacco use back 9,000 years. Plus, how the COVID pandemic unleashed attacks on scientists, and exploring the singularity at the top of an apple.
Tax heavy cars and shrink batteries to make electric vehicles cleaner and safer, say three energy-policy researchers. Plus, nanotechnology antiviral drugs that target SARS-CoV-2, and career tips from Nobel laureates.
The race to apply mRNA technology, which has been so successful in COVID-19 jabs, to influenza vaccines. Plus, the economics Nobel prizewinners, and an abandoned oil tanker that threatens millions of lives.
How a promising oral COVID drug works and what its potential impact might be on the pandemic. Plus, the unexpected effects of COVID restrictions on lots of other illnesses.
“Stay tuned,” says the Nobel committee about a prize for COVID-19 vaccine technology. Plus, surprisingly recent volcanic activity on the Moon and how AI ‘nowcasts’ imminent storms.
First real-world evidence that inexpensive air filters effectively remove SARS-CoV-2 virus particles from the air. Plus, a malaria vaccine will finally be rolled out across Africa and how the world’s biggest brain maps could transform neuroscience.
Tips and tools for making better colour choices in images and figures. Plus, ‘elegant’ catalysts win the chemistry Nobel, and the legacy of departing NIH director Francis Collins.
US National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins will step down from the agency by the end of the year. Plus, climate and complex systems share the physics Nobel Prize and the estate of Henrietta Lacks is suing Thermo Fisher Scientific.
An antiviral pill called molnupiravir shows promise against COVID-19. Plus, the science of touch wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and NASA won’t rename the James Webb Space Telescope.
An Emmy-winning documentary shows Nixon responding to a tragedy that never happened. Plus, illegal Amazon mining invades Indigenous land, and 23 species are declared extinct in the US.
The Great Red Spot storm on Jupiter is mysteriously rotating faster and shrinking. Plus, see the first images of a solid made of electrons and learn how Microsoft plans to offset all the carbon it ever emitted.
Bizarre rings in a distant star system might be caused by the first known circumtriple planet. Plus, publishers join forces against image manipulation, and the gripping first chapter of a scientific story three years in the making.
The ninth satellite to take up the mantle of the longest-running Earth-observation mission has successfully launched. Plus, an autism genetics project has been paused amid a backlash, and behind the scenes with Nature’s scientific graphics team.
