Earlier today the Chancellor presented the 2025 Spending Review, setting out departmental budgets until 2029, and investment ...

The Royal Society of Biology has announced this year’s winner of the Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year Award.

An article on urban beekeeping from the latest issue of The Biologist has attracted widespread attention from media outlets in the UK and abroad. The author's message that urban beekeeping may not be ...

Over the past century, biologists have developed an understanding of the human body and the ability to intervene in processes at organ, cellular and sub-cellular levels. This has led to improvements ...

In early 2024 the Norwegian parliament voted overwhelmingly to open its seabed for commercial mining of valuable minerals. This sparked fierce internal and international opposition, and while Norway’s ...

In January an international consortium of scientists announced that it had completed the construction of the final chromosome in the world’s first synthetic eukaryotic genome, ‘Sc2.0’. The work ...

Darren Naish looks at how a small number of authors can cause chaos in biology’s system for naming species and what can be done about it The term ‘taxonomy’ refers to the branch of science that is ...

This year, the RSB’s Annual General Meeting took place on Wednesday 21 May 2025 at the Geological Society at Burlington House, London as well as online. Among the highlights were updates provided by ...

Recently the internet seems to be awash with horrifying clips of ‘zombie’ spiders and ants forced into strange behaviours by a fungus or virus that will soon kill them – often rather gruesomely.

We ask independent researchers how they made the leap from postdoc to a more senior research position and tips for a successful move The postdoc years are often the most difficult time of a ...

From the call of a bird to the chirp of a cicada, sound is everywhere in nature. Yet plants – lacking obvious organs for emitting and receiving sound – are rarely thought of in terms of their acoustic ...