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As the autumn leaves turn handsomely, I’ve been wondering, why do trees bother? It’s a question scientists have been asking for the past few years, and for the first time, they’ve carried out an ...

Although the chemistry of autumn colours is well understood, there is an ongoing and lively debate among scientists about why trees evolved their vivid autumn colours in the first place. Driving north ...