After collaborating with Field Studies Council last year for the first time on the Signs of Spring citizen science project, ...

The Heads of University Biosciences (HUBS), a special interest group of the RSB, continues to be of value to bioscience ...

Dr Mairi Levitt looks at how lawyers are increasingly looking to use defendants’ genes to defend criminal behaviour, despite the evidence for its use being largely unconvincing Reducing a convicted ...

In 2012, Wales became the first country in the world to DNA barcode every single one of its 1,143 native flowering plants. The project, led by Dr Natasha de Vere, has inspired countless countries to ...

Congratulations to the winners of the RSB Top Student Award 2022: Abertay University - BSc Biomedical Science: Jamie Simpson Anglia Ruskin University - BSc Medical Science: Jessica Amosu Aston ...

The human craving for rich flavours has been a largely unacknowledged and unexamined force in our evolution, according to a new book that explores the concept of ‘deliciousness’ in nature When Rob ...

Synthetic biology is the engineering of biological systems to create useful products or devices. It has the potential to create new life forms with extraordinary properties that exist purely to meet ...

After 70 years of cultural shift in the West towards babies being bottle-fed formula milk rather than breastfed, one of the prevailing views in the general population is that there is no difference ...

It is a rare skill to write for a lay audience and still maintain as high a level of scholarship as Reich achieves here. Readers who enjoy the investigative nature of science will be spellbound not ...