Why tasty treats are more tricky to resist after a sleepless night...
Interviews about Biology
Interviews about genetics, ecology and evolution, insects, mammals, marine science, plants and zoology...
Following my leader: how and why ants and termites do it differently...
A unique look into how human cultures may have evolved
Can people be gently persuaded to eat less meat?
After hundreds of elephants died suddenly in Botswana, poisoning by toxic algal blooms appears to be the cause...
Only 14% of UK waterways are considered "healthy"...
Lots of animals have evolved to deal with toxins, and many of them become toxic in turn...
Some COVID patients don't have detectable antibodies - but they do produce immune cells called T cells...
Toads, bugs, snakes, and more all resist similar toxins. And it turns out they use the same genetic trick...
These orange, black and white insects use special evolutionary tricks to transport the toxins they eat...
The muscles around our ears move in the direction we are listening
Tourist boats are bothering whales, despite keeping their distance
The first cases were reported in people in the city of Wuhan. Where and how did bats get involved?
The virus binds perfectly to human proteins. What's the explanation?
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...