This week, scientists may have found a universal weak spot for nearly every tested flu strain using a carefully designed triple antibody cocktail, an animal with 229 pairs of chromosomes is officially declared to have the most chromosomes of any animal , and, for the first time, an 85-million-year-old dinosaur egg has been dated using an “ atomic clock for fossils ”. Finally, 10 years after the discovery of gravitational waves, we take a look at the unfolding new astronomical revolution . The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

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