Innovation in biology will help us support all life on Earth now and in the coming decades. Biology Week celebrates and raises the profile of these achievements and the important work that ...

This project supports transition from primary to secondary school with peer to peer learning across age groups. Secondary students learn how to deliver the range of Gopher Science Lab activities to ...

Despite being only 171 x 114 mm, an almost unbelievable quantity of scientifically accurate and interesting information is packed in to the very readable Insectpedia. Arranged alphabetically but with ...

Three Libyan fishers died this summer after eating silverstripe blaasop. Sadly, they were not the first, nor likely the last, to suffer the effects of the potent neurotoxin tetrodotoxin (TTX) found in ...

Erica McAlister is senior curator of Diptera at the Natural History Museum (NHM) and published her first book, The Secret Life of Flies, in 2017. Within a few minutes of meeting her it’s clear that I ...

Dr Andrew Singer, a senior scientist at the UK’s Centre for Hydrology and Ecology, is leading the UK’s National COVID-19 Wastewater-Based Epidemiology Surveillance Programme. He hopes this NERC-funded ...

Professor Sriram Ramaswamy FRS is a professor of physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. With an interest in hydrodynamics and biological physics, he helped to found the emerging field ...

How many people enter the final months of their PhD with the twin fears of whether they will get it done in time and whether they will actually get a job at the end of it? Tackling the fear of ...

Richard Fortey found his first trilobite aged just 14, after braving gorse bushes to break rocks on St David's Peninsula, the westernmost tip of Wales. This first encounter with a trilobite – which ...

Professor Liz Sockett is a microbiologist at the University of Nottingham who studies the predatory bacteria Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus (BvB) and its potential use as a ‘living antibiotic’. These ...

The inventor of DNA fingerprinting speaks to Alison Woollard about the scientists who inspired him and the 'eureka moment' that revolutionised forensic science In 1984, Alec Jeffreys was in his lab in ...

A unique collaboration involving scientists, artists and amateur rocket enthusiasts is attempting to sample and identify microorganisms on the edge of space. Rachel Brazil reports Oliver de Peyer ...