A bee’s sensory world is staggeringly different to ours, and some of their abilities surpass our own. For example, they can see UV light, smell carbon dioxide and detect electrostatic charge. They can ...

The UKRT Panel meet three times a year to review applications, the next meeting is in February 2025. The deadline for applications and references to be received is the 13th December 2024. We recommend ...

In May 2016 Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys FRS Hon FRSB, inventor of DNA fingerprinting, shared his inspiring story with Dr Alison Woollard FRSB and an audience of over 300 people at a special ...

Pursuing a career in biology is stimulating and rewarding. The RSB support biologists with career advice, professional recognition and training events.

This Biochemical Society course aims to teach the core skills which underlie the application of Python to complex, real-world research problems. his Biochemical Society course aims to teach the core ...

The resources are aimed at post-16 students taking biology (or related subjects) to A level, Scottish Higher or similar level. These will also be of use to first year undergraduates studying biology.

The following are the Biology in the Real World talks that have taken place at the Association for Science Education's Annual Conference: ...

Dr Jane Goodall is an English UN Messenger of Peace and ethologist most famous for her 45 year study of chimpanzee social and family interactions in Tanzania and for founding the Jane Goodall ...

The introduction of just one flightless midge to Antarctica could have a huge effect on the region’s simple terrestrial ecosystems. Researchers and other visitors must be careful not to further ...

The scientists behind the big genetics breakthroughs of the last century couldn't have imagined that, by 2014, extracting, sequencing and modifying DNA would be simple and cheap enough to try at home.

It’s 3am. I am sitting in a small rain shelter, attached to a fenced enclosure, on the Atlantic coast of Costa Rica. The rain from a tropical thunderstorm pours in and I am soaked to the skin. I am ...

Taylor Swift and Katy Perry may catch the attention of most youngsters, but it was the microbial world that captured the attention of this author as a child, and his opening pages vividly record the ...