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The two viruses that are the cause of the world’s two currently ongoing pandemics are very different from each other. One can fiendishly jump from host to host with incredible ease and causes a mild respiratory illness in most patients (though the jury is still out on the longer-term implications of the disease), with many infected people being completely asymptomatic. The second virus is mostly transmitted through unprotected sex, can lay unnoticed in its host for many years before it causes symptoms and can be fatal if left untreated.

Wind energy has a large amount of potential as a renewable energy source, but blade technology might limit its growth. Researchers have developed lighter wind turbine blades from composite materials to produce clean, wind energy more efficiently.

Failure to develop an HIV vaccine so far calls for a change of tune. EAVI2020 aims to accelerate development thanks to a platform dedicated to the discovery of new vaccine candidates. In its efforts, it even brought nine promising candidates to clinical evaluation.