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 ...

for purely fluid-dynamical reasons. Secondly, the mere presence of swimming activity can increase or decrease the viscosity of a fluid. A suspension of E.coli is less viscous, and a suspension of ...

If you are at all curious about your place in the universe, or how the very small compares to the very large, then you should read this book. If you have never been curious about the universe, then ...

Earlier this year, we asked Fellows of the RSB to suggest their ideas for the biggest biology stories and most important research of 2017. We had responses from across all areas of the biosciences – ...

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 ...

Everything that the sea casts on to the shore tells a story. Some objects give us glimpses into the lives of marine creatures living nearby. Others speak of long-distance voyages on the ocean waves.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This page is a guide to help keep styling consistent across the website. If you are an external visitor, you probably won't find this page very interesting. The title ...

Squirrel Nation is a historical account of how and where the squirrel fits into the British countryside and British life, where the red squirrel is seen as the original British squirrel and the grey ...

This is a brilliant account by a world-leading professor of palaeontology of the 4.5-billion-year history of the Earth stretching through to the Oligocene and the present day. The focus is on the ...