Hello Nature readers,As a weekly subscriber, you're missing out on the shorter, more timely daily Nature Briefing — including a surprising, insightful quote every day and our frankly hilarious new weekly cartoon, Quirks of Nature. Swap to the daily for free: https://go.nature.com/2CwA9KM. Happy new year — Briefing will return on 7 January. (ARS/US Department of Agriculture/SPL)The science to look for in 2019 Two ambitious Antarctic missions, the rise of China as the world’s biggest spender on research and development, and a boom in cannabis research are among the trends to look out for next year.Nature | Read this article at nature.com/latest-news The toughest plants survived ‘the Great Dying’ Unusually detailed plant fossils unearthed in Jordan suggest that several major lineages of fern and conifer species survived the world’s greatest extinction event. Some s
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