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How plants fight back
Features
Science: Dragonflies help to defeat dengue fever
News
Review: Compression without tears
Books & Arts
Science: Birds with a talent for applied chemistry
News
Review: Tales of the weird and wonderful – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
Books & Arts
Specialist Review: Cold cuts
Books & Arts
Gardeners of the underworld: Burrowing animals play a vital role in nature’s economy, cycling and recycling soil and sediment and whatever might be in them. Burrowers can also have unexpected impacts on the world above
Features
The all-conquering weed reveals its secrets
Features
Biology looks to yeast for genetic insights
Features
Genetic markers put pigs on the map
Features
Review: The fur brigade
Books & Arts
Science: Twilight of the frogs
News