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The best science images of the year: 2018 in pictures

California’s worst wildfires, cloned monkey twins, the world’s smallest house and more.
  1. Mićo Tatalović
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A plane drops fire retardant to help stop the spread of the River Fire burning in California.

California’s wildfires dominated headlines in 2018. Here, an aeroplane drops fire retardant in an area north of San Francisco in August. Credit: Mark McKenna/Zuma Press/PA

2018 will go down in history as a scorcher: deadly wildfires and droughts raged from California to Cape Town. The year also brought advances in cloning and imaging — and a bleak reminder of the fragility of some of Earth’s rarest species. Here are the striking shots from science and the natural world that caught the eyes of Nature’s editors.

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Nature 564, 318-323 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07684-4

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  1. Jung, H. et al. Cell 172, 667–682 (2018).

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