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• The Wood Wide Web: What Trees Actually Share Underground
  Forest trees are joined by a fungal internet that trades sugar for minerals, warns neighbours of drought, and lets stumps keep feeding for years. The science is real, the popular version is exaggerated — here is what mycorrhizal networks genuinely do.
• How Scientists Classify Life — From Linnaeus to DNA Trees
  Every organism on Earth has an address in a filing system invented by an 18th-century Swede and now being rebuilt base pair by base pair. Taxonomy is where biology meets genealogy: naming, ranking, arguing — and occasionally discovering that fungi are closer to animals than to plants.