Biology Articles

On International Women's Day, we highlight the important work Dr Alena Pribyl is contributing to science.

Plants can detect insect attacks by 'sniffing' each other's aromas...

If you knew you were going to be on dialysis in four years time, would you do something about it?

A Naked Scientists intern turned DNA sleuth updates us on where she's got to...

How aquatic single-celled plants can convert things we throw away into high-value materials...

What’s the most urgent action we need to take in 2020?

CRISPR provides hope for sickle cell treatment...

What do you get when you sample a fish tank for DNA?

Professor Guillermo Rein tells Horizon why smouldering peatland fires are so dangerous...

Data science; a profession, a discipline? But what actually is it

Planning to get in shape with a diet? Research suggests this can actually make matters worse...

Does nature resort to the same tactics used by plant breeders?

People raised in cities, with less animal contact and a narrow range of microbial exposures, are more prone to health...

Measuring which microorganisms are in a person’s gut and how they influence overall health is now a reality...

What can a 5-month stay on a far-away tropical island have to do with harmful microbes?

Public action and ‘fundamental social change’ needed to reverse biodiversity decline.

Fossil colour studies are changing our idea of how dinosaurs looked..

Mobile forests could help cities cope with climate change...

Could green fertiliser transform agriculture?

Transplant recipients may soon have a test to protect against organ rejection...

Why meerkats and mongooses have a cooperative approach to raising their pups...

Where did domesticated dogs come from?

Shark-cams reveal the world through a white shark's eyes for the first time...

Our food security and biodiversity are under threat from invasive alien species