Interviews about Biology

Let's meet the fine minds featuring in this Q&A...

Whales are so massive, that they can act as a way of storing atmospheric carbon

What kind of data collection and research goes on inside a flagship research vessel?

Flowers can alter the chemistry of their cuticle to create UV light that attracts pollinators

The arrival of a brother or sister produces a profound long-lasting stress response in bonobo infants...

Seeds bred to grow in a monoculture may not be best suited to growing in an intercrop community...

Digital palaeontology posits that this fish-eating dinosaur was happier on shore than in the water...

The method behind their mimicry...

How the special biology of the bat's larynx helps them bellow low growls and high pitched squeals...

Would a reduction in our population help solve the climatic, social, and economic problems we face?

What are the issues that a population of 8 billion people have to face?

What are the underlying factors behind our exponential growth, and how high will it go?

A new discovery that ant pupae feed their parents a nutritious milky substance

What Nanomia can teach us about the best way to use propulsion in the water

A sugar derived molecule from the shells of shellfish has shown promise as a method of birth control

How a follow up to a 65 year old study on Thames' mussels revealed some troubling results

How sounds we can't even hear might make us move more on the dancefloor...

Who will win this month's big brain award?

Joining us this week...

Making sure reproducibility remains a central pillar of the scientific process..

The root of all evil...

With 70% of researchers having failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, how worried should we be?

Cameras attached to tiger sharks have discovered the world's largest seagrass ecosystem

How bees detect electrical fields around flowers, and how fertilisers disrupt that