‘Trained Immunity’ Offers Hope in Fight Against Coronavirus

Quanta Magazine: Laboratories around the world are in a high-profile race to create vaccines that might help end the COVID-19 pandemic. More quietly, however, other scientists are investigating whether a vaccine that has already been in use for decades could also…

Synthetic biologists have created a slow-growing version of the coronavirus to give as a vaccine

Technology Review: In the 1950s, Albert Sabin was searching for an improved polio vaccine. To that end, his lab infected the brains of mice, chimpanzees, and monkeys with the virus…

Boeing hid design flaws in Max jets from pilots and regulators

Financial Times: Boeing hid design flaws in its 737 Max jet from both pilots and regulators as it raced to have the aeroplane certified as fit to fly, according to a damning Congressional report into why two of the aircraft crashed…

CERN’s emissions equal to a large cruise liner, says report

Physics World: Greenhouse-gas emissions emitted by the CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva in 2018 were 223 800 tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent – similar to the emissions from a large cruise liner. That is according to the lab’s first public Environment Report…