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This week's magazine
13 February 2021
Issue 3321
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Health
South Africa rethinks plans after variant evades AstraZeneca vaccine
South Africa has paused its roll-out of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine because it might not be effective against the South African B.1.351 coronavirus variant 鈥� but it is still likely to limit the severity of covid-19
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Health
The 5 best things you can do to boost the chance of a vaccine working
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Space
The United Arab Emirates鈥� Hope orbiter is about to arrive at Mars
News
Health
How can you tell if a coronavirus vaccine has given you immunity?
News
Health
Next coronavirus vaccines may be drops, pills or printed on demand
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Chemistry
‘Splat chemistry’ creates substances by chucking molecules at a wall
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Life
Decline of butterfly collecting hobby threatens conservation research
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Life
Orangutans create new ways to communicate with each other in captivity
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Humans
2700-year-old face cream was made from animal fat and cave 鈥榤ilk鈥�
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Physics
Mathematician makes breakthrough on 100-year-old problem about knots
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Space
Lines on Mars could be created by salty water triggering landslides
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Environment
Australian government may use herpes virus to control invasive carp
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Technology
Bouncing backpack is easier to carry and generates electricity
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Environment
Salt marsh fairy circles go from rings to bullseyes to adapt to stress
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Health
Some mouse sperm try to sabotage rivals in race to fertilise the egg
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Life
Some spiders use their silk to hoist helpless prey so it cannot escape
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Analysis
Technology
Our study of gambling and its harms shows it’s time to intervene
Online gambling has exploded in recent years and we now have the fullest picture yet of its links to financial and social harm, say Naomi Muggleton and Neil Stewart
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Environment
Net zero has taken the world by storm in a rare climate win
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Features
Environment
Is there any type of fish you can actually eat sustainably?
Labels declaring seafood "sustainable" give us comfort we鈥檙e consuming ethically, but tracing the true environmental toll tells a different story - mostly
Features
Health
The game-changing covid-19 treatments that helped slash the death rate
Features
Humans
Avi Loeb interview: Could 鈥極umuamua be alien technology after all?
Features
Culture
Health
It鈥檚 A Sin review: A series that will tug on your heartstrings
Russell T Davies's mini series It鈥檚 A Sin serves as the perfect snapshot into London鈥檚 gay scene in the 1980s, while exposing the harsh realities of the decade鈥檚 rising AIDS epidemic
Culture
Humans
Don’t Miss: Netflix’s Tribes of Europa, a German near-future sci-fi
Culture
Life
Playing With Sharks review: The amazing woman who helped film Jaws
Culture
Humans
Build colonies or save spacecraft in the best video games set on Mars
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Regulars
Spinach has less iron than you think and can鈥檛 even send emails
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This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
Why do some people like gambling so much?
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Particles are in constant motion. What propels them?
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Is it better for the planet to read online or in a paper format?
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This week鈥檚 new questions
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When you wash a duvet, why does it eat other items in the wash?
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