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 ...

10,000 polar artefacts, with a rolling exhibition and other artefacts kept in deep freeze vaults. Of course there are many exhibits belonging to the ill-fated Scott exhibition of 1912, including ...

cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme produce more oxylipins than non-wounded cells[15], the myxobacterium Myxococcus xanthus twitches more actively sensing oxylipins[16], and the slime mould ...

to future pests or diseases if only the survivors remain to produce seed. We are investigating whether there might be a trade-off between resistance to ash dieback and resistance to insect pests. An ...

David J Gibson Oxford University Press, £18.99 There are not many books on plants that open with tales of orchid thefts, abducted babies, OJ Simpson and Ted Bundy. But this is no normal plant science ...

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 ...

many more ewes. The cow sheds too are quiet. They are very well ventilated. (A cow, if kept dry, does not suffer from the cold until the air temperature falls below minus 10C, a rare event in this ...

Full HUBS membership is open to university departments interested in contributing to debates on priorities in the biosciences. The Head of Department is normally the point of contact but they can also ...

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 ...

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 ...

Edited by Dennis McKenna with Sir Ghillean Prance, Benjamin De Loenen and Wade Daviss Synergetic Press, £88.99 (hardback), $19.99 (eBook) Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs provides a ...

Above: the characteristic holes or 'plaques' indicating bacteriophage infection of a plate of bacteria. Courtesy of Ninjatacoshell via Wikimedia commons. Bacteriophages found by members of the public ...