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 ...

when looking at the biodiversity of an area, or even leave them out altogether because they are “too hard”. “This really scares me when people make ecological assessments on that level. In flies, even ...

in terms of spidroin production and has led to great strides in development. Expression of recombinant spidroins in mammalian milk has been in development for the past decade. The use of transgenic ...

Nicola Hemmings examines the numerous factors that influence a sperm's chances of fertilising an egg The Biologist 62(4) p18-21 A sperm's journey from insemination to fertilisation can be likened 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...