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Your best shot • We can all control parts of this pandemic, even if it doesn’t always feel like it
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Vaccine put on hold • South Africa halts Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine roll-out after evidence it might not be effective against local variant. Michael Le Page reports
How to give your vaccine a boost • Lifestyle choices around the time of a vaccination can affect your immune response to it. Helen Thomson explores how to give it the best shot at success
Out of your hands • Some factors that affect our immune response to vaccines are beyond our control
How to tell if your vaccine worked • Some tests for covid-19 antibodies can show if a vaccine has given you immunity
Tomorrow’s vaccines • The world needs new vaccines to beat nasty coronavirus variants, overcome delays and solve global inequality. Graham Lawton investigates what’s in the pipeline
A new Hope for Mars • The United Arab Emirates’s orbiter aims to chart the Martian atmosphere in detail
Making molecules go splat results in precision reactions
Orangutans in zoos create new communication signals
Ecological research harder due to lack of butterfly collectors
Breakthrough for 100-year-old knotty maths problem
Ancient face cream was made from cave ‘milk’ and animal fat
We may have solved one Martian mystery
Virus could be unleashed to control carp in world first
Moving pack makes power as you walk
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Fairy circles resilient to climate change
Some sperm can sabotage rivals in the race to an egg
Spiders bag big prey thanks to silk trick
Signal Boost • Welcome to our Signal Boost project – a page for charitable organisations to get their message out to a global audience, free of charge. Today, a message from Harry’s HAT
Gambling interventions • We now have the fullest picture yet of online gambling’s links to financial and social harm, say Naomi Muggleton and Neil Stewart
No planet B • A climate tipping point to welcome The concept of net zero has rapidly taken hold in the public consciousness and it is having a big impact on pledges to cut carbon, writes Graham Lawton
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The shadow of AIDS • It’s a Sin is the perfect snapshot of London’s gay scene in the 1980s, while exposing the harsh realities of the rising AIDS epidemic, says Karina Shah
Learning to love sharks • Valerie Taylor, a shark hunter turned shark lover who shot footage for Jaws, is a colourful subject, says Davide Abbatescianni
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The games column • Mars was never going to be easy As real spacecraft arrive at the Red Planet, let’s celebrate with Mars-based games like Red Faction: Guerrilla, which lets you destroy at will, or Tharsis, where you captain a doomed spacecraft, says Jacob Aron
Plenty more fish in the sea? • As the world’s appetite for seafood explodes, is there really a way to eat it sustainably, asks Graham Lawton
Learning to treat covid-19 • Changes in how we deal with serious coronavirus infections are helping more people survive. Carrie Arnold reports on what is now the gold-standard hospital treatment
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