Biology News Stories

As glaciers move to the ocean they act as "natural bulldozers", crushing the underlying rock and releasing...

The rise of slime off Turkey is a dangerous eyesore. But it's not all doom and gloop: this can be reversed

Sharks gather map-like information from Earth's magnetic field

If cats eat and play, mice live to see another day...

A drug that combats a rare human genetic disease is lethal to blood-sucking insects...

Trapped in amber for millions of years, this beetle has been scientifically very enlightening...

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…