This project supports transition from primary to secondary school with peer to peer learning across age groups. Secondary students learn how to deliver the range of Gopher Science Lab activities to ...

The Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year Award seeks to identify the UK’s leading bioscience higher education (HE) teachers, recognising the invaluable role they play in educating and ...

Above: An image of the world-famous Park Grass long-term experiment, courtesy of Rothamstead Research. Ben Sykes explains how the UK’s long-term ecological field experiments – some of which have been ...

Do you run workshops, seminars, conferences and other events suitable for biologists? Would you like to offer your participants CPD credits for your events? Royal Society of Biology CPD Approval ...

Understanding and innovation in the biological sciences underpin many essential aspects of society, from agriculture and sanitation to the latest medical advances. As a major contributor to the UK’s ...

basket of figs so she can evade Caesar's humiliating triumph. As with everything about Cleopatra, the moment is also deeply erotic, "a lover's pinch", as two elements conjoin in a moment that combines ...

What is Flying Ant Day? Flying ants often seem to appear on the same day in different locations in the UK – flying ant day. Most ant colonies start with a flying ant - when young queens leave the nest ...

the brain, a group in the USA showed that in depression, the particular network which encodes a sense of self, known as the default mode network, was over-engaged in depression. With psychedelics, you ...

As the International Year of Soils nears its end, Dr Tudor Dawkins and Dr Farnon Ellwood examine the nature and importance of soil and how farmers can keep it in good shape The Biologist 62(5) p26-29 ...

of motor control, making subsequently validated predictions of which neurons in the densely connected network would be dispensable or indispensable for regulated movement[4]. This is the right kind of ...

Highly Commended: Krish Desha Beerachee, aged 11, from Oatlands Junior School Highly Commended: Rahni Spaul, aged 9, from Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls Highly Commended: Sky Walker, aged 11, ...

These resources were created around the time of the 2012 Olympics and offer a fun way to explore adaptations in animals and could be used as part of activities related to various different biology ...