After collaborating with Field Studies Council last year for the first time on the Signs of Spring citizen science project, ...

The Heads of University Biosciences (HUBS), a special interest group of the RSB, continues to be of value to bioscience ...

Congratulations to the winners of the RSB Top Student Award 2022: Abertay University - BSc Biomedical Science: Jamie Simpson Anglia Ruskin University - BSc Medical Science: Jessica Amosu Aston ...

The human craving for rich flavours has been a largely unacknowledged and unexamined force in our evolution, according to a new book that explores the concept of ‘deliciousness’ in nature When Rob ...

Dr Adam Kucharski, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, tells Tom Ireland how modelling has provided rapid insights into many aspects of the COVID-19 outbreak. Can you give us an ...

In 2012, Wales became the first country in the world to DNA barcode every single one of its 1,143 native flowering plants. The project, led by Dr Natasha de Vere, has inspired countless countries to ...

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 ...

Dr Mairi Levitt looks at how lawyers are increasingly looking to use defendants’ genes to defend criminal behaviour, despite the evidence for its use being largely unconvincing Reducing a convicted ...

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 ...

Dr Federico Mayor Zaragoza is the president of the Culture of Peace Foundation and chair of the World Forum of Civil Society Networks (UBUNTU), where he established the World Campaign for the Reform ...

Synthetic biology is the engineering of biological systems to create useful products or devices. It has the potential to create new life forms with extraordinary properties that exist purely to meet ...