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 ...

People think of chameleons as the masters of camouflage, but the coleoids – octopuses, squid and cuttlefish – are far ahead in terms of manipulating their appearance[1]. Because their skin appearance ...

It is always a pleasure to read about a scientist’s work in a book written for the non-specialist who may be interested in knowing more about a subject for a variety of reasons. It is no mean task to ...

The Science of Walking retraces the history of the growing interest in the physical act of walking - locomotion - in Western societies (particularly France, Germany, and Britain). Through the 19th ...

This is a beautifully produced and informative book on the deep ocean for the novice, written by a highly respected American science communicator. Using text that is easy to read, together with large, ...

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 ...

In our very first episode of the Biosphere Podcast, we dive into the world of animal behaviour and talk to Professor Sir Ian Boyd, RSB's President about his research and his science policy experience ...

Dr Jane Goodall is an English UN Messenger of Peace and ethologist most famous for her 45 year study of chimpanzee social and family interactions in Tanzania and for founding the Jane Goodall ...

Building on former works from activists such as Tristram Stuart, Smith distils into a compact read the ramifications of the multi-headed monster that is food waste. Topics include agriculture, fishing ...

For Biology Week 2017, we invited the public to vote for their favourite UK tree species. We want to highlight the importance of trees in the UK and raise awareness of their conservation needs. Trees ...

Images from the competition were covered in a number of news outlets including Labmate. Ian captured this photo of two male polar bears 'sparring' on the ice on the edge of Hudson Bay, Churchill, ...

In 1990 the ambitious CERN computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee built the World Wide Web to help researchers share information rapidly. Just a few months later, arXiv (pronounced 'archive') was ...