Interviews about Biology

Interviews about genetics, ecology and evolution, insects, mammals, marine science, plants and zoology...

20 April 2021

It's easy to transfer parasites when trying to protect animals

15 April 2021

Analysis of research papers in the life sciences shows increasing use of non-inclusive language

15 April 2021

Analysing the bacterial populations in Cambridge rivers

13 April 2021

A nearly 2000 year old ancient date seed has grown into a plant that's now producing delicious dates

13 April 2021

A new study - combining the work of thousands of geneticists - pins down the genes making COVID worse...

13 April 2021

What happens in germination? And how specialised germination is wreaking havoc for some farmers...

13 April 2021

Thousands of wild and crop seeds kept safe to protect genetic variability

13 April 2021

Purifying water with proteins made by seeds

13 April 2021

Recording gorilla chest beating to find a signal of body size

23 March 2021

New research shows just how sensitive our fingerprints are

17 March 2021

Genes sequenced from a sliver of skeleton have revealed the oldest dog found in the Americas...

17 March 2021

A change in this gene means you're missing a crucial protein - which makes you better adapted to the cold...

17 March 2021

Groups of people living in cold parts of the world have, over thousands of years, used this gene to adapt...

16 March 2021

Games company Slug Disco are releasing a new game that models evolution underwater

15 March 2021

Scientists are able to narrow down the location of Punt by analysing ancient baboon remains

02 March 2021

Turns out lyrebirds can mimic numerous other birds at the same time...

24 February 2021

Millions of years after we crawled out of the oceans, biologists have helped a fish restart the process...

24 February 2021

DNA can tangle itself into strange shapes - including this four-stranded molecular knot...

24 February 2021

The Los Angeles Times have revealed multiple genealogy platforms used - secretly - to catch a killer...

23 February 2021

How does learning work in the brain? And what does learning virtually do to this process?

23 February 2021

Mysterious structures, discovered a century ago near Abydos, have turned out to be a huge brewing operation...

23 February 2021

Researchers have made a surprising, accidental discovery: life, in a place it shouldn't exist...

23 February 2021

As oxygen minimum zones enlarge in the ocean, sharks are more at risk of getting caught up in fishing lines

23 February 2021

How the diversity of microbes in sourdough starters can affect the flavour and rise of the bread