Why inventing a vaccine for AIDS is tougher than for COVID The 4-decades long effort to create an AIDS vaccine suffered a blow with news that a vaccine in a late stage trial was discontinued because results showed it to be ineffective. What are the obstacles? Read more on NPR

‘After Sappho’ brings women in history to life to claim their stories Selby Wynn Schwartz’s debut, longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, is partly a love letter to Virginia Woolf and poet Sappho, partly a work of literary criticism and partly a speculative biography. Read more on NPR

Your kids are adorable germ vectors. Here’s how often they get your household sick After months of COVID, flu and RSV infections, parents of little kids are kinda losing it. But the data shows kids have always brought home waves of respiratory illness. Read more on NPR

Palestinians say Israeli troops kill 9 in West Bank raid Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians and wounded several others during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Palestinian health officials said. Read more on NPR

This drinks festival doesn’t have alcohol. That’s why hundreds of people came One of the hottest tickets in Washington, D.C., was to a festival that was all about drinking and having fun — but not about booze. Read more on NPR

America’s eggs-istential crisis Eggs have tripled in price in the last few years and in some places, it’s hard to find them at all. Now a raft of competitors are hoping to lure Americans away from their beloved breakfast food. Read more on NPR

Humans can correctly identify several gestures made by apes, a new study shows On average, half the participants in a study by the University of St. Andrews in Scotland could recognize what either chimpanzees or bonobos were communicating. Read more on NPR

‘Everybody is cheating’: Why this teacher has adopted an open ChatGPT policy An associate professor at the prestigious Wharton School is not only allowing his students to use ChatGPT, they are required to. Read more on NPR