Interviews about Biology

Are clues to common human speech patterns hiding in the utterances of orangutans?

Is rigidity in research communication deterring budding scientists?

Historically, taste was used to select botanical-based medicines. So were the ancients on the right lines?

Do the investigators we train remain in research, or exit for fields new...

Underwater recordins reveal new insights into how these creatures change their tunes...

A tail as old as time...

Is saving some genome better than saving none?

Someone has been having a whale of a time...

mRNA leads the way...

And how we are putting that in jeopardy...

A study into prehistoric genetics...

Some organisms are in deep water

And the legal battle that uncovered them...

Made you look: Teasing behaviours observed in orangutans could reveal why we like to joke...

The discovery gives forensic investigators another tool in their arsenal...

How do we cut the millions of tonnes of plastic produced, and dumped, each year?

How the genetic code can inform better medical practice...

We have laws aiming to save biodiversity and protect nature, so why are we seeing an extinction crisis?

And how that could influence our future design choices...

And what this might mean for fruit yield...

A Cambridge museum looks at the evolution of the spine...

And how high speed photography helped reveal the answer...

A source of great tension for the insects...

And why this might have cosmic implications...