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A scientist’s account of switching focus to tackle pressing problems, and researchers consider the best way to preserve eggs, in our weekly dip into Nature ’s archive.
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01811-2
This article features text from Nature ’s archive. By its historical nature, the archive includes some images, articles and language that by twenty-first-century standards are offensive and harmful. Find out more .
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