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Humans

Can a law meant to protect Native American artefacts free an orca?

Health

The race to find and stop viruses that could cause the next pandemic

Physics

The universe is expanding too fast, and that could rewrite cosmology

Leaders

Space

China’s Chang’e 5 probe is the start of a new era of lunar exploration

Chang'e 5 is set to bring moon rocks back to Earth for the first time in more than four decades 鈥� and China has even more ambitious plans for lunar missions in the coming years

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Health

Oxford/AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine may be up to 90 per cent effective

A covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford may be up to 90 per cent effective when given first as a half dose and then a full dose, and it doesn't need to be kept at a very low temperature

Space

China has launched its most advanced mission to the moon yet

Space

Earth had a minimoon for nearly three years before it drifted away

Ancient parasites in a titanosaur鈥檚 bones made it look like a zombie

Health

Ebola outbreak in the DRC ended thanks to vaccine distribution efforts

Environment

The meat of protected African animals is being sold in Belgium

Life

Tiny worm sacrifices itself to make milk for its hatching offspring

Earth

Plate tectonics may have begun a billion years earlier than thought

Technology

US Navy’s huge uncrewed robot ship has journeyed through Panama Canal

Technology

Computer vision can estimate calorie content of food at a glance

Humans

Your eyes can reveal your decisions before you’ve even made them

Health

Can mass testing schemes stop the spread of the coronavirus?

Life

Very hangry caterpillars could help reveal genetic basis of aggression

Health

AI that can diagnose tinnitus from brain scans may improve treatment

Technology

Portable device uses solar power to sterilise medical equipment

Health

Potent new antifungal discovered in the microbiome of marine animals

Technology

Magnetic spray turns objects into mini robots that can deliver drugs

Technology

Warehouse robots upgraded to make packing decisions 350 times faster

Analysis

Health

What are the odds of dying if you’re infected by the coronavirus?

During the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the infection fatality rate 鈥� how many infected people die 鈥� may have been 1 per cent for high-income countries with older populations

Life

The sale of the duelling dinosaurs fossil may be bad news for science

Humans

Fears about genetically modified foods are cultural not scientific

Aperture

Environment

Surreal Californian oilscape wins climate change photography award

This unreal landscape captures the environmental price of intensive oil exploitation paid by a desert in Kern County, California. The image was taken by David Gardner and won a prize at the 2020 BarTur Photo Award

Regulars

Features

Physics

The universe is expanding too fast, and that could rewrite cosmology

Different measurements of the Hubble constant, the rate of space-time expansion, refuse to agree 鈥� meaning we may have to look beyond Einstein鈥檚 theories to explain the universe

Humans

Can a law meant to protect Native American artefacts free an orca?

Health

The race to find and stop viruses that could cause the next pandemic

Culture

Humans

Crazy, Not Insane review: Why do people become murderers?

True-crime shows focusing on the act of murder are booming. Alex Gibney's new documentary Crazy, Not Insane instead looks at what might spawn a killer

Humans

Don’t Miss: I Am Greta documentary is the story of a climate crusader

Space

The Space Between Worlds review: Sci-fi with the multiverse done right

Physics

His Dark Materials review: Season 2 is spine-chillingly excellent