The Royal Society of Biology has announced a shift in its regional structure following a consultation process earlier this ...

Debbie Powell from Westminster Primary Academy in Blackpool, UK has been awarded the Primary Science Teaching Award (PSTA) ...

Nancy Rothwell Prize Winner: Ottilie Murdoch Dovar (aged 11) from Wells Cathedral School, Somerset, UK. "My family has had Quince, an African Grey parrot, all my life and I love to draw him and when I ...

This year's provisional A level results show biology is the most popular science in UK sixth forms and colleges. Almost 64,000 students took A level biology courses this year, compared with 63,000 in ...

That this is the sixth edition of Cowen’s History of Life since its first edition in 1990 is testament to its value as a source of knowledge over the past 29 years. In the current edition there are 23 ...

Author Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at the New Yorker and has written previously on climate change – a subject that has some mention in this latest book, with the human-influenced effects the ...

Welcome to the RSB's A-Z of the Biosciences video series! Each video focusses on a different area of biology, with our biologists sharing the highlights of their work. Each video has details of the ...

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 ...

Biology is not just applied chemistry or applied physics. The components of living systems obey the laws of physics, but the existence and behaviour of living organisms cannot be deduced from those ...

How do we remember events from the past? The question has puzzled researchers for centuries. In the 1970s, psychologist and neuroscientist Endel Tulving suggested that memories of earlier episodes ...

Our landscape tells us the story of what plant disease is capable of. A walk in the British countryside, which is now largely devoid of elm trees, will quickly remind you that even after 40 years, the ...

Education in Scotland is a devolved power, and the Royal Society of Biology's education policy team and the Royal Society of Biology in Scotland (RSBS) is keen to support and encourage the study of ...