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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in How It Works Issue 173.
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Stigma under the microscope
© Getty
These are the reproductive organs of the thale cress flower (Arabidopsis thaliana) under confocal microscopy. At the centre of the image is the stigma, the site at which poll...
Serpent’s snack
© Alamy
It’s lunchtime for this golden tree snake (Chrysopelea ornata), and a blue crested lizard (Calotes mystaceus) is on the menu. These venomous snakes are found slithering through t...
Where desert and sea meet
© NASA/JSC
This is Adair Bay, or Bahia Adair, where the Gulf of California meets the Gran Desierto de Altar in northwestern Mexico. Between the arid desert and the waters of the Sea of C...
Cosmic clouds
© ESA/Hubble, NASA & STScI, C. Britt, T. Huard, A. Pagan
Hubble snapped this dense cloud of cosmic dust and gas called CB 130-3, around 652 light years from Earth in the co...