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 ...

for purely fluid-dynamical reasons. Secondly, the mere presence of swimming activity can increase or decrease the viscosity of a fluid. A suspension of E.coli is less viscous, and a suspension of ...

Above: An image of the world-famous Park Grass long-term experiment, courtesy of Rothamstead Research. Ben Sykes explains how the UK’s long-term ecological field experiments – some of which have been ...

Understanding and innovation in the biological sciences underpin many essential aspects of society, from agriculture and sanitation to the latest medical advances. As a major contributor to the UK’s ...

The Russian nobleman-turned-anarchist was also a biologist whose research in Siberia laid the groundwork for modern biological studies of co-operation and altruism, writes Tom Ireland Peter ...

If you are at all curious about your place in the universe, or how the very small compares to the very large, then you should read this book. If you have never been curious about the universe, then ...

What is Flying Ant Day? Flying ants often seem to appear on the same day in different locations in the UK – flying ant day. Most ant colonies start with a flying ant - when young queens leave the nest ...

the brain, a group in the USA showed that in depression, the particular network which encodes a sense of self, known as the default mode network, was over-engaged in depression. With psychedelics, you ...

Hippocrates said that ‘the chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words'. But sometimes what might have seemed clear at one ...

of motor control, making subsequently validated predictions of which neurons in the densely connected network would be dispensable or indispensable for regulated movement[4]. This is the right kind of ...

Do you run workshops, seminars, conferences and other events suitable for biologists? Would you like to offer your participants CPD credits for your events? Royal Society of Biology CPD Approval ...

Earlier this year, we asked Fellows of the RSB to suggest their ideas for the biggest biology stories and most important research of 2017. We had responses from across all areas of the biosciences – ...