A vaccine for the dreaded norovirus is in the works 💊 and it’s already proving effective. The winter vomiting bug affects 685 million people - so you'll be glad to know the first trial has proved promising https://podfollow.com/the-world-the-universe-and-us | New Scientist

Here are the best stories in science this week ⁠ ⁠ Hearing a sound while working on a complex puzzle, and then hearing it again during sleep, helped lucid dreamers better tackle the problem the next day. Humans are the only primates with a chin – now we finally know why. Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a by-product of other traits shaped by natural selection ⁠ Babies in the West commonly lack a gut microbe