In 1944, physicist Erwin Schrödinger wrote What is Life? a book that inspired Francis Crick to embark on his Nobel prize-winning research on DNA. But Schrödinger's challenging question, 'how can the ...

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 ...

It is a rare skill to write for a lay audience and still maintain as high a level of scholarship as Reich achieves here. Readers who enjoy the investigative nature of science will be spellbound not ...

This straight line represents the border between nature and the humanity. However, human impact like this can be seen all over the world with ecosystems going through huge, dramatic changes. Almost ...

What is biology and how is it done? A few simple resources to introduce the topic and open up discussions around what biologists do. 1. What is biology? Most suitable for ages 11+ A simple definition ...

A Column of Smoke weaves together a fictional story about love and relationships with a topical scientific dilemma. We follow Sally, a young postdoctoral researcher who has to make some difficult ...

Sam Perrin explores how ecologists and environmental scientists are overcoming gaps in data and concerns over accuracy to integrate eDNA into their work The enormous jumps we’ve made in genomics ...

The Biologist speaks to the founders of four networks for Black scientists about how to support and grow the Black STEM workforce In the last five years, a range of new organisations and networks have ...

Can you explain what you do at RSB? I’m responsible for strategy, implementation and delivery of science policy activities. That includes managing our team of science policy officers, supporting our ...

Professor Black is director of the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at the University of Dundee. She is a founder and past president of the British Association for Human Identification and ...

In 2012 American biochemist Jennifer Doudna and her collaborator, Emmanuelle Charpentier, proposed that CRISPR – a group of genes and molecules used by bacteria to recognise and destroy viral DNA – ...