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Gone with the wind

Dr Sara Goodacre explains how spiders can ‘fly’ and ‘sail’ to aid dispersal

The sky's the limit

Annabel Calvert explores efforts to replicate photosynthesis in solar cells

Out of the woods

While the world concentrates on an altogether different epidemic, young trees in the UK are showing signs of resistance to ash dieback, writes Dr Emily Beardon

Interview: Sunetra Gupta

Theoretical epidemiologist Professor Sunetra Gupta discusses alternative models of how and when COVID-19 might have spread through the UK

Replace, refine, reduce

Dr Alice Carstairs and Courtney Williams explore the best of this year’s efforts to help reduce the use of animals in biomedical research

Back to my roots

Dr Tudor Dawkins FRSB on returning to postgraduate research at 64, and doing research in his greenhouse during lockdown.

Futuristic fibres

How synthetic biology is helping produce custom spider silks with extraordinary mechanical and biological properties

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