Biology Articles

Plants and animals seem worlds apart, but in some important ways, we are more like plants than we realise...

Of all the slang names for the British, none is more iconic than 'Limey'. While the the term provokes...

Bees are being trained to detect drugs and explosives...

“Love is the drug and I need to score,” sang Bryan Ferry in the seventies, earning him a smash hit and a small fortune...

We’re all searching for happiness, but do we really know what this is or where to find it? Douglas E. Richards gives...

It is the stuff of nightmares - a society so wound up in the legal system that no-one is allowed to tell you the truth...

For anyone fresh out of frogs and tempted to kiss a toad instead, this article has a word of warning. Although certain...

Noam Chomsky, a rookie professor at MIT, published a ground-breaking book called Syntactic Structures, which set out a...

Swine flu, SARS, Bird Flu, HIV, Dengue, Hepatitis C, Ebola - the human race is awash with new infections - but where...

What happens when a human child grows up with a chimpanzee brother? Does a dog think that a robot dog belongs to the...

What can microfossils tell us about past climate? Christopher Stanton resumes his story...

Surprising as it sounds, one of the world's top tipples a century ago was laced with cocaine. And although the...

Ion channels are miniature pores in the membranes of cells. They're the gatekeepers controlling which ions can...

Flies are creatures of habit - at least that's what the latest research on the fruit fly Drosophila has found. In...

The buzz of a bumblebee is one of the quintessential sounds of summer time. But this ‘slender sound’ and ‘faint...

Since scientists discovered how DNA behaves like a giant genetic recipe book encoding the entire suite of proteins...

Every day our bodies are assailed by microbes of all descriptions, but for the most part we successfully fend them off...

I.Q. scores have been rising steadily, by about 3 points per decade, ever since they were first administered. This is...

Scientists have brought the world one step closer to the creation of the first artificial organism with the recent...

The feasibility of a female oestrus amongst humans had been dismissed by the masses. But now a study of tipping amongst...

Just as winter follows summer, the chances are you'll catch a cold this winter - but what is the sticky stuff that...

We tend to think of parasites as evolutionary cheats, surreptitiously taking advantage of their hosts’ hard work while...

Equivalent in land area to 14 Isle of Mans, or Rhode Island State twice over, the Louisiana Wetlands are one of the...

There are 100,000,000,000 nerve cells in a brain, surrounded by at least 10 times as many supporting cells...