The Society of Biology, now the Royal Society of Biology, was founded 10 years ago this month. The Biologist convened a panel of key figures in the Society’s history to discuss why a unified voice for ...

Dame Georgina Mace is a professor of biodiversity and ecosystems and head of the Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research at University College London. Her research focuses on measuring the ...

The non-forested open ecosystem is the focus of William Bond’s book, but not because such ecosystems comprise a greater percentage of available land. Rather, the fact that many non-forested land areas ...

Fossils of various kinds are primary subjects in geological literature but how the process of fossilization occurs is varied and complex. How and why do some organisms die and disappear into the ...

In its 2014 report 'BRAIN 2025: A Scientific Vision', the Advisory Committee to the director of the US National Institutes of Health stated it had "identified the analysis of circuits of interacting ...

As COVID-19 continues to dominate our headlines, it is easy to lose sight of the many diseases to have spread through the country in recent times. One of these is slowly killing millions of individual ...

The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that around a third of all soils are degraded due to erosion, being overworked or industrialisation. At the same time, the pressure is on ...

In our very first episode of the Biosphere Podcast, we dive into the world of animal behaviour and talk to Professor Sir Ian Boyd, RSB's President about his research and his science policy experience ...

Beth Shapiro with Colossal co-founder and CEO Ben Lamm Beth Shapiro, chief scientist at the de-extinction start-up Colossal, talks to Tom Ireland about the science and ethics of recreating long-lost ...

Mark Blaxter and Kazuharu Arakawa look at the remarkable physiology of tardigrades, and why their recent appearance on Star Trek caused a stir among those who study them Science fiction loves a good ...

Surfactants are a group of chemicals that have a daily impact on our lives and yet we have little awareness of their importance, or their ubiquitous use. The word 'surfactant' was coined many decades ...