Biology News Articles

These Japanese millipedes join cicadas as the only other arthropods with a multi-year life cycle...

Does the announcement from Pfizer this week mark the beginning of the end of our socially-distanced existence...

Healthcare workers are carrying COVID-19 without realising they’re infected, a new study shows...

Coughs and sneezes traditionally spread diseases, and coronavirus particles are shed into sewage...

Loss of smell and taste sense has been reported by people later diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2. Now we know why...

Covid-19 mortality rates are apparently much lower in some parts of the world. Might the TB jab you had as a teenager...

Immune responses can actually help Covid-19 to infect cells, a new study reveals...

The results extend what we regard as the habitable space on Earth...

A robot balances better than ever before by learning from human behaviour...

Is lettuce grown in space as good for you as lettuce grown on Earth?

Why do seagulls want your chips? Turns out they prefer food humans have touched...

How can you improve flood resilience, biodiversity and tourism? Beavers!

What helps a zoo pull in the punters?

DNA stores our biological blueprint, and it can now store the blueprint of common objects too...

If you find it difficult to change your diet, look at what these bacteria did…

The genetic changes that protect ash trees against ash dieback disease have been uncovered by UK scientists...

In every generation there is about a 1% chance of a child’s father not actually being the mother’s husband...

Being called a bird brain might not be such a bad thing…

Measles erases the immune system's memory of past infections, two new studies revealed this week...

After decades, researchers have discovered how measles erases our immune system’s memory of past infections...

Ditching a raft of genes helped marine mammals to adapt to life afloat...

Global wildlife trade affects whole groups of species, with up to 3,000 more species predicted to be affected.

Researchers find that restoring sensation in amputated legs seems to make walking easier...

A strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria absorb fewer nutrients, but thrive in hospital environments...