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All the climbing plants and weeds in my garden twine anticlockwise. Is there an evolutionary advantage to this? And do any twine clockwise?

Peter Waller,

Bristol, UK

What happens to the electrons, protons, neutrons and photons that exist in living beings when they die?

Andrew Pipkins,

Forney, Texas, US

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