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A German team says a live but weakened nasal Covid-19 vaccine blocked infection in hamsters' upper airways, achieving sterilizing immunity. The study suggests promise, but human trials remain.
A new study of lake mud from East Africa suggests the Toba supereruption 74,000 years ago caused only about half a degree of cooling for under two years, challenging the idea that it nearly wiped out humanity.
German scientists have identified how snails engineer their slime: collagen and calcium work in tandem to tune its mechanical properties, according to a new paper in Science.
Google's DeepMind-developed WeatherNext AI model can predict cyclones with a day more lead time than existing models, as shown in a Nature study.