Biology Articles

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...

How drones and AI are helping to track endangered species and threatened marine habitats...

Smartphone apps and genetic studies are teaming up to fight childhood obesity.

A significant amount of the single-use plastics that we use ends up in our oceans.

How do you assist a shark in the birthing process...

Earthworms and tiny water fleas could help deliver clean water to billions of people

How mammals survived, thrived, and became dominant across the planet...

They aren’t what most people think they are, Human eyes...

Research into the remarkable regenerative powers of worms and the insights they can give into battling diseases could...

The DNA from 5000 ancient bone fragments from New Zealand reveals the cost to the natural world of human arrival...

A new way to farm indoors using different wavelengths of light could boost the taste of fruits, salads and herbs, while...

To feed more than 9 billion people by 2050, farmers will have to produce 70% more food. Here's how genetics can...

Unravelling one of the most elaborate forms of non-human communication – the honeybee’s waggle dance – could help...

We've been unpicking the genomes of T. rex's descendents to find out...

In March 2011, my life took a turn when a simple blood sample would reveal whether or not I would have the rare,...

In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick built ball-and-stick models to help discover the structure of deoxyribonucleic...