10,000 polar artefacts, with a rolling exhibition and other artefacts kept in deep freeze vaults. Of course there are many exhibits belonging to the ill-fated Scott exhibition of 1912, including ...

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 ...

David J Gibson Oxford University Press, £18.99 There are not many books on plants that open with tales of orchid thefts, abducted babies, OJ Simpson and Ted Bundy. But this is no normal plant science ...

Full HUBS membership is open to university departments interested in contributing to debates on priorities in the biosciences. The Head of Department is normally the point of contact but they can also ...

many more ewes. The cow sheds too are quiet. They are very well ventilated. (A cow, if kept dry, does not suffer from the cold until the air temperature falls below minus 10C, a rare event in this ...

cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme produce more oxylipins than non-wounded cells[15], the myxobacterium Myxococcus xanthus twitches more actively sensing oxylipins[16], and the slime mould ...

Areas of RSB work relevant to nature and climate policy issues, including committee work, letters to Government, policy responses and more. Our Climate and Nature Strategy is available to download ...

to future pests or diseases if only the survivors remain to produce seed. We are investigating whether there might be a trade-off between resistance to ash dieback and resistance to insect pests. An ...

Ashley Leiman OBE, director of the Orangutan Foundation, explores the complex relationship between man and our closest relatives – the great apes The great apes are often perceived differently to ...

For the last five years Janelle Kaz has combined her love of nature and motorcycles on a two-wheeled intercontinental conservation adventure. She gives The Biologist a taster of the latest leg of her ...

How many people love toads? The correct answer is ‘more than you might think’. The evidence comes from the many hundreds of ‘Toads-on-Roads’ schemes dotted around the UK. In densely populated and ...

One of the best reads I have undertaken in 2023, the author oozes knowledge and enthusiasm about all things insects. It’s no surprise when you read that Nicholls holds a PhD in dragonflies and has ...