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Why you shouldn’t hire a dune buggy on holiday

The effect of dune-buggying on wildlife in California’s Mojave desert, and an introduction to X-ray crystallography from one of its founders, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02444-z

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