Biology Articles

Rare genetic mutations have been known to abolish pain, or to cause permanent agony. But what if subtle differences in...

Imagine a shoal of fish 15 kilometres long, 3.5 kilometres wide and 40 metres deep...

The seabed is surprisingly clean considering the amount of waste, both natural and man-made, that gets dumped in the...

In Lewis Carroll’s "Through the Looking-Glass", The Red Queen tells Alice that she has to run as quickly as...

Microbial warfare is constantly happening all around us, and often humans can reap the benefits if the right bacteria...

Southern right whales live in the southern oceans that surround Antarctica. In the winter, they move north, settling in...

As more carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere, the world's oceans become more acidic, affecting the...

Plants and animals seem worlds apart, but in some important ways, we are more like plants than we realise...

Of all the slang names for the British, none is more iconic than 'Limey'. While the the term provokes...

Bees are being trained to detect drugs and explosives...

“Love is the drug and I need to score,” sang Bryan Ferry in the seventies, earning him a smash hit and a small fortune...

We’re all searching for happiness, but do we really know what this is or where to find it? Douglas E. Richards gives...

For anyone fresh out of frogs and tempted to kiss a toad instead, this article has a word of warning. Although certain...

Noam Chomsky, a rookie professor at MIT, published a ground-breaking book called Syntactic Structures, which set out a...

Swine flu, SARS, Bird Flu, HIV, Dengue, Hepatitis C, Ebola - the human race is awash with new infections - but where...

What happens when a human child grows up with a chimpanzee brother? Does a dog think that a robot dog belongs to the...

What can microfossils tell us about past climate? Christopher Stanton resumes his story...

Surprising as it sounds, one of the world's top tipples a century ago was laced with cocaine. And although the...

Ion channels are miniature pores in the membranes of cells. They're the gatekeepers controlling which ions can...

Flies are creatures of habit - at least that's what the latest research on the fruit fly Drosophila has found. In...

The buzz of a bumblebee is one of the quintessential sounds of summer time. But this ‘slender sound’ and ‘faint...

Since scientists discovered how DNA behaves like a giant genetic recipe book encoding the entire suite of proteins...

Every day our bodies are assailed by microbes of all descriptions, but for the most part we successfully fend them off...

I.Q. scores have been rising steadily, by about 3 points per decade, ever since they were first administered. This is...