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Visions of science: best images awarded

By Beau Gamble • 14 February 2012

Cucumber trichomes inject poison into unwitting herbivores. (Credit: Robert Rock Belliveau/NSF/Science)

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Deadly cucumber skin and a ‘two-dimensional’ compound feature in the best science photos of 2011.

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