The Download: inhaled covid vaccines, and fighting malaria

1 A new malaria vaccine could protect millions of vulnerable people
It’s the most effective known jab to date. (The Guardian)
Scientists have called the development “world-changing.” (BBC)
If future tests are successful, it could be rolled out as soon as next year. (Economist $)

2 Elon Musk will be allowed to use the whistleblower claims in court
Pieter Zatko, Twitter’s former security chief, claimed the company’s cyber security practices were lax. (FT $)

3 A new microscopy technique has made tiny protein structures visible
It makes it easier than ever before to study minuscule structures. (Economist $)
DeepMind’s AlphaFold isn’t always the most accurate model for protein interactions. (The Register)
DeepMind has predicted the structure of almost every protein known to science. (MIT Technology Review)

4 NASA is still working out when to attempt another moon rocket launch
Technical problems, including a liquid hydrogen leak, have delayed it twice so far. (WP $)
The rocket program is already years behind. (The Atlantic $)
Meanwhile, China’s moon mission is progressing. (IEEE Spectrum)
Two newly-discovered planets appear to be habitable. (New Scientist $)

5 US life expectancy keeps falling
Even though other wealthy countries’ life expectancy has begun recovering from the pandemic. (Vox)
Our circadian clock means that pain feels worse at night. (Wired $)

6 How the electricity industry helped to spread climate denial
Many of its biggest companies are still heavily invested in fossil fuels. (The Atlantic $)
The oil industry is still trying to greenwash its image, too. (Protocol)
Food supplies have not been as badly affected by drought as you may think. (Wired $)
We must fundamentally rethink “net-zero” climate plans. (MIT Technology Review)

7 A creepy woman keeps cropping up in AI images
She appears across multiple image-generation models, too. (Motherboard)

8 Facebook doesn’t actually know where it stores your data
Which comes as no surprise. (The Intercept)
She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she is sharing her story. (MIT Technology Review)

9 Why Apple has dropped its obsession with optimism
Its new kit focuses on emergency prevention and survival. (Fast Company $)
The company’s privacy fixation can be traced back to Steve Jobs. (Bloomberg $)
A smartphone that lasts a decade is not an impossible dream. (NYT $)

At a conference in New Orleans in 2007, Jon Greiner, then the chief of police in Ogden, Utah, heard a presentation by the New York City Police Department about a sophisticated new data hub called a “real time crime center.”

In the early 1990s, the NYPD had pioneered a system called CompStat that aimed to discern patterns in crime data, since widely adopted by large police departments around the country. The real-time crime center was an idea that went further. What if dispatchers could use their vast data collection to assist in responding to incidents as they occur?