TheBiologistVol 70 No 2 • Summer 2023
THE MAGAZINE OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF BIOLOGY www.rsb.org.uk
Small
wonder
Revealing the hidden world of plankton at night
INSIDE
METABOLISING
PLASTIC Can microbes help us clean up our planet?
GROWING ON GAMMA The fungi that feed on
deadly radiation
AI AND BIODIVERSITY Using machine learning to discover new proteins