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Biology

August 2024

  • Head and shoulders of Emma Dine in a garden

    ‘You feel a bit mass-produced’: donor-conceived people on the export of UK sperm

  • Former Team GB Olympic athlete Sarah Claxton traced her American father through ancestry DNA testing.

    Rise in DNA tests being used to claim citizenship of other countries

  • A crocodile about to eat a bait on the end of a stick

    Teaching crocodiles not to eat cane toads saves them from fatal poisoning, researchers discover

  • Gulls flying over landfill site.

    Urban birds are teeming with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, study finds

  • Horses can plan ahead and think strategically, scientists find

  • Cats appear to grieve death of fellow pets – even dogs, study finds

  • Love child of slug and hedgehog: fossils may shed light on early mollusc ancestors

July 2024

  • A female glow-worm in the grass at Seacombe, near the village of Worth Matravers

    ‘There’s nothing else like it’: Dorset glow-worm survey charms volunteers

  • A telomere, a region of the DNA sequence at the end of a chromosome. Visible here as highlights at the tips of the chromosomes

    Science Weekly
    Secrets of ageing: what makes me age? – podcast

  • Close-up of woman holding senior man's hand leaning on cane<br>deutschland,mannheim,lifestyle,senior,pflege

    Bereavement in early life may accelerate ageing, research shows

  • A long thin atoll around a lagoon

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Inside the battle for top job that will decide the future of deep-sea mining

  • Men are spending more time looking after their children – and it’s not just cultural, it’s in their genes

    Jonathan Kennedy

  • Philospher Peter Godfrey-Smith: ‘To some extent, our planet would be better off without humanity’

  • How my ginger tom became a terrible klepto-cat

  • Early mammal could help answer one of biology’s biggest question, say experts

  • Komodo dragons have iron-coated teeth, scientists find

  • Chimpanzees communicate in similar quick-fire fashion to humans, study shows

  • Why sex bias in labs means women are the losers in research into ageing

  • Biologist Rosemary Grant: ‘Evolution happens much quicker than Darwin thought’

  • Practice doesn’t always make perfect – that’s why you’re not in the Olympics

    Martha Gill
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