Interviews about Biology

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?

A pet cat in the UK has been diagnosed with Covid...

What's the world's largest organism? How did gin & tonic change the world? Stories from the living world...

From gold blood, to blue blood, to blood on the dance floor - here are some weird science stories...

Vitamin bullets developed that load shellfish with extra nutrients

How far have we come since 1953?

What does DNA do in our cells, and what does a 'DNA sequence' look like?

Between extra genes and two families of cells, female mammals get a leg up in many different ways...

The way females deal with having two X chromosomes leads to a mosaic effect across the body...

Mass elephant die-off in the Okavango Delta

Canadian sparrows are singing a different tune...