A seasonal reception, organised by the Royal Society of Biology on behalf of the STEM Parliamentary Steering Group (PSG), was ...

I loved this book for many reasons – in part because Infield is an engaging writer, but mainly because of the way he has opened his experience for us to share in the trials and tribulations of someone ...

This is a fascinating history of ‘climatic botany’: the relationship between forest and rainfall. The belief that forest and rainfall are closely connected has a long history, from Christopher ...

Immunology is a jargon-filled, labyrinthine subject that novice medical and biomedical students often struggle to understand, yet they must master it to value the power of the human immune system. How ...

In Deep Water, James Bradley beautifully describes how our lives are inextricably linked to the sea. The deep ocean is not separate from human activity and is not simply a new frontier to be exploited ...

Beth Shapiro, chief scientist at the de-extinction start-up Colossal, talks to Tom Ireland about the science and ethics of recreating long-lost species in a lab Professor Beth Shapiro is an ...

Our camera trap adventure started more than 10 years ago in late 2007 with a question: did clouded leopards live in Bornean tropical peat-swamp forest? Our focus was the long-term research site in the ...

Why should I join the RSB? Membership of the UK's leading professional association for the biosciences can enhance your career through a range of professional opportunities. It can also allow you to ...

We have all experienced feeling low when we are ill and our immune system is under attack. But can the reverse also be true – that our mental wellbeing can influence our immunity to disease? This is ...

Gardens are living entities and, as gardeners understand, plants – especially trees and shrubs – create their own ecological niches. Understanding the biodiversity engendered by these processes is the ...

This is a most unusual but important book. I have empathy with the views in the first chapter of the book, which considers the origin of life, an approach to carbon which I have used myself in a ...

Shells are more present in our lives than we may realise – from having practical uses, such as a source of food, to being of ornamental value, or educational value, given their origins, evolution and ...