The 13th Biology Week hosted by the Royal Society of Biology saw people from across the UK and around the world taking part ...

An annual biology photography competition which invites amateurs to submit photographs on a particular theme. Each year, the competition's judges look for an original interpretation of this theme.

The Employer Advisory Network (EAN) is a group of companies active in the biosciences, providing expertise and support to the RSB. RSB is dedicated to being a unifying voice for biology, representing ...

Imagine this scenario: it's almost the end of your PhD and you're broke and jobless. Then, at a conference, you overhear a professor you'd like to work for discussing a talk. You have something to ...

Sam Perrin explores how ecologists and environmental scientists are overcoming gaps in data and concerns over accuracy to integrate eDNA into their work The enormous jumps we’ve made in genomics ...

According to the World Health Organization, 250 million preschool children are vitamin A deficient. Between 250,000 and 500,000 children become blind annually, and half of them die within 12 months of ...

The inventor of DNA fingerprinting speaks to Alison Woollard about the scientists who inspired him and the 'eureka moment' that revolutionised forensic science In 1984, Alec Jeffreys was in his lab in ...

The UK's black garden ants (Lasius niger) are currently taking to the air in spectacular style, with sightings coming in for the Society of Biology's flying ant survey earlier than usual. Last year's ...

Television dramas where hard-hitting barristers savage anyone in the witness box may deter many professionals from acting as an expert witness, but the reality is far from the fiction portrayed on ...

Bioengineering applies the principles of engineering to problems involving biological material. It combines science, engineering, technology and medicine to create innovative devices, materials or ...

The challenges of the modern world are testing our architects to the limit. Not only do we desperately need more affordable housing for our growing population, but our buildings have to be as energy, ...

This is a wonderfully refreshing, easy-to-read and easy-to-follow book. As a primary school teacher I found the book engaging, as did my pupils. The book starts with a section about how Alom Shaha ...