Interviews about Biology

What makes the best excuse?

When is the best time to fit pregnancy into a busy lab schedule?

Protein sequences from freshwater molluscs solves and archaeological riddle...

Adaptive optics is enabling scientists to see individual blood cells moving in the retina...

European beewolves paralyse their prey and use nitric oxide gas to keep the corpse fresh...

A monkey with a missing primary visual cortex can still see... but how?

Do plants have consciousness?

Meet the creatures locked in a sonic arms race...

You've got to be impressed by bar-headed geese...

While teams continue to search for gold, others are looking for something quite different; life.

A map of every cell in human airways could improve treatments for respiratory conditions.

Scientists analyse animal calls to help improve the well-being of livestock.

Mosquitoes are the world’s most dangerous creatures but can they be modified to wipe out their own kind?

Sleep experts separate fact from fiction...

Should our biological sleep differences be factored into working life?

When it comes to memory, the importance of sleep goes beyond the negative impact being tired...

Could changing the way we think about sleep actually help us to sleep better?

Does standing up affect how food tastes?

It’s not just humans that have had to adapt to life at low temperatures...

A missing piece in the puzzle of human migration...

There’s not a moment to lose when it comes to catching prey, why not bring them down with poison or venom?

Scientists combine a spider venom gene with fungi to tackle malaria-carrying mosquitoes...

New eLife editor-in-chief Mike Eisen shares his vision of how science should be communicated

A biologist, an artist and a philosopher explore drawing as a tool to rethink biological processes...