Biology News

Primate Gamble Pays Off

In a study which might help to explain why humans sometimes make rash decisions that don't pay off, scientists have uncovered the evolutionary origin of why some animals are partia...

Cloned tissue cure Parkinson's Mice

Scientists have used cloning technology to cure mice with the symptoms of Parkinson's Disease, using their own cells....

Sharp Beaks Stick to Soft Squid

Could you carve a roast dinner using a knife that had no handle?  Well this is almost what a squid has to do every time it uses its beak.  Scientists at the University of...

Rule Learning Rats

It seems that rats are even smarter than we thought – they can learn a set of abstract rules and apply them to completely new situations – something we thought previously only huma...

Making a positive impact

Many people assume that meteors hitting our planet can only spell disaster for living creatures. For example, we’ve all heard about the massive meteor strike 65 million years ago t...

Stopping Spoiled Food at the Checkout

Have you ever bought milk, only to discover it's gone off by the time you get home?  A new device could stop spoiled food ever leaving the supermarket! ...

Robo-treatment for blindness

Researchers at the University of Utah School of Medicine have mad a discovery that could lead to treatments for two of the leading causes of blindness – age-related macular degener...

He may drink tea, but that doesn't make him common

Seeing Chimpanzees on TV and in adverts could be misleading the public into thinking chimps are thriving, when the reality is very different. ...

Indonesia Gives World Bird Flu

In the last week Indonesia agreed to provide the WHO with samples from the latest human cases of bird flu caused by the H5N1 viral strain. This move ends a stand-off between the In...

Sing a song of sewage

Scientists have found that birds exposed to oestrogens in the environment sing better but have weaker immune systems. Katherine Buchanan and her colleagues...