Biology Articles

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

How have two and three toed sloths evolved independently of each other?

What is the noise from whale-watching boats doing to the inner ears of marine mammals?

How tiny grasshoppers are helping us to understand the origins of species and how evolution works...

Why do injuries often lead to scars...

Could microbes hold the key to sustainable agriculture?

What are the effects of using more antibiotics in animals than humans...

The white-bellied frog in south-west Western Australia is experiencing population extinctions throughout its small...

There are multiple clocks in the body: how do they tick to the same rhythm?

People tend to favour relatives over non-relatives. But is this a product of culture or a part of human nature?

A trainee clinical geneticist talks to a mother whose child suffered from a genetic disease...