Interviews about Biology

The virus binds perfectly to human proteins. What's the explanation?

Analysis of the very first SARS-CoV-2 samples shows they already looked evolved to infect us...

Scientists tested people in rural China and found infections of a separate coronavirus...

When it comes to the origins of COVID, there are still lots of unknowns. But we can be sure of a sequel...

We can't rule out the possibility - but the evidence seems to point to a natural origin...

In the live rodent trade, infections with a coronavirus go up the closer you get to the consumer...

Based on the first gene sequences of the coronavirus, it may not have come from Wuhan at all...

Scientists haven't found an animal carrying the coronavirus yet. Where is it? And is it a bat or not?

The advance party has been and gone - and now an international team will travel to Wuhan to ask questions...

How and why do animals play?

What does climate change mean for butterflies in the UK?

We took a turn around Cambridge University Botanic Garden's climate change and plants trail...

Researchers estimate there's 10 x more plastic in the Atlantic Ocean than previously thought...

Can games be used to help model ecosystems?

Meet the ancient bird found hidden under the Siberian permafrost...

Sparrows with West Nile Virus are infected for longer in the light - with implications for disease spread...

It's called sexual dichromatism - and in mosaic canaries, a single gene seems to make the difference...

Plenty of birds fly south for winter. In warblers, this gene seems to partly control where they go...

Hummingbirds can fly backwards and upside-down, and use some unique tricks of metabolism to do it...

Why do locusts swarm?

A neuropathologist explains the stranger symptoms of long covid - from mood swings to fizzing in the skin...

Cardiologists have recently discovered ongoing heart issues in people who had mild COVID-19...

Researchers call it allogrooming - and here's how it shows the herd's hierarchy...

Why do ants always find their way onto my picnic plate?