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Researchers wonder why lower dose prompted better efficacy in study of vaccine candidate from the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca

Researchers warn secrecy could harm public trust

Tooth analysis provides strongest evidence yet that these monster sharks commonly used nurseries

Intense x-ray beams detect unusual artifact and a misleading portrait

Sputnik V vaccine still has more than 90% efficacy in second interim analysis

COVID-19 and repeated storms and wildfires have shaped how people perceive risks

Scientists engineer new material to help craft nimble, multipurpose machines

Celestial reference frames built from Gaia star-mapping satellite promise better planetary navigation and telescope pointing

Prominent family of highly selective journals expands open-access option

Native American rock art appears to depict the psychoactive flower, rather than the experience of getting high

Finds from the Saqqara necropolis suggest a society trying to revive the past

After a decade, National Ignition Facility nears a self-heated, sustained reaction, though net energy gain is still elusive

AstraZeneca-University of Oxford vaccine uses a chimpanzee virus to deliver coronavirus gene and had better efficacy, 90%, when given as a h...

Nature Communications paper claims female mentors are bad for early-career female scientists

Journalists discuss what it's like to live the stories they're reporting

Analysis of early cosmic evolution points to dark matter’s importance and casts doubt on modified theories of gravity

Vaccine successes raise doubts even as planning for first “human challenge” trial continues

On this week’s show: Giant open-ocean salmon farms and triploid oysters amp up seafood production, and how we might influence our skin micro...

Companies poised to see big gains from high-tech breeding, but questions remain about gene editing and engineering

Preserving natural fires and managing out-of-control blazes helps ecosystems

National Science Foundation decides to decommission iconic radio observatory

Mutations and other changes in tumors appear to explain rare success stories

Stacked carbon sheets used to make switches that some quantum computers rely on

Chang’e-5’s lunar samples could firm up shaky crater count dating system for the rocky planets

“Take Tylenol and suck it up”: side effects show vaccine is working, physicians and researchers say