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What’s the best way to create a malaria vaccine? Bung mosquitoes in a smoothie!

What’s the best way to create a malaria vaccine? Bung mosquitoes in a smoothie!

Birds' brain activity translated into song

Birds’ brain activity translated into song

Sicily's extinct dwarf elephant shrank by 200kg every generation © Archives of the Gemmellaro Geological Museum

Fossil DNA reveals how an ancient species of elephant shrank to one-fifth of its original size

Do we get our gut bacteria microbiome before or after birth? © Getty Images

Do we get our gut bacteria microbiome before or after birth?

OROVILLE, CA - JUNE 08: In an aerial view, houseboats whose owners chose to leave them in the lake, float at a water level nearly 200 feet below normal at the Lime Saddle Marina for Lake Oroville near Paradise, Calif., on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. Drought has caused the water level to drop in Lake Oroville several hundred feet, leaving houseboat owners to make a choice to leave their craft in the water or to remove them since boat ramps will not reach the low level of the water as it drops lower and lower. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Latest photography of California’s devastating drought emergency

Volunteers spent 40 days in a cave with no natural light or clocks, and most want to go back. Here’s why… © Human Adaptation Institute

Volunteers spent 40 days in a cave with no natural light or clocks, and most want to go back. Here’s why…

Supermassive black holes may be formed by collapsing dark matter halos © Getty Images

Supermassive black holes may be formed by collapsing dark matter halos

T. rex teens may have driven medium-sized dinosaur species extinct © Zubin Erik Dutta

T. rex teens may have driven medium-sized dinosaur species extinct

COVID-19 cases are doubling every 11 days in England, study finds © Getty Images

COVID-19 cases are doubling every 11 days in England, study finds

Novel kidney organoid recapitulating the patterned distribution of principal cells (red) and intercalated cells (green) of an adult kidney's collecting duct system. © Zipeng Zeng/Li Lab

Science’s new weapon against kidney disease: Tiny lab-grown organoids

Betelgeuse’s brightness dimmed, and we finally understand why © ESO/M Montargès et al.

Betelgeuse’s brightness dimmed, and we finally understand why

Sea-skimming 'flying ferries' could cross the Channel at 180mph © Brittany Ferries/PA

Battery-powered, sea-skimming ‘flying ferries’ could cross the Channel at 180mph

Hungry all of the time? It could be in your blood © Getty Images

Hungry all of the time? It could be in your blood

COVID-19: Scientists discover source of life-threatening blood clots © Getty Images

COVID-19: Scientists discover source of life-threatening blood clots

Tiny injectable chips use ultrasound to monitor your body… from the inside © Chen Shi/Columbia Engineering

Tiny injectable chips use ultrasound to monitor your body… from the inside