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Focus on...Allergies

As the Society launches #BritainBreathing, an app to help researchers monitor the public's seasonal allergies, we look at the biology of allergic reactions

The wildlife of Chernobyl: 30 years without man

Brown bears, bison, lynx: the once-rare mammals living in Chernobyl's radioactive centre

Polyspermy

Tim Birkhead and Nicola Hemmings explain how
fertilisation, in some animals, requires more than one sperm

Redefining Life

Rodrigo Rodrigues and Jônatas Abrahão look at so-called giant viruses – and how their unique features have forced us to reconsider whether viruses are living organisms or not

How to…Apply for a postdoc

Rebecca Nesbit looks at making the transition from
postgrad to postdoc with top tips from Nobel prize winners

Focus on...Zika virus

The flavivirus sweeping across Latin America and now associated with microcephaly in babies

Survival of the smelliest

Tristram Wyatt looks at the evolution of pheromones from smells into signals

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