Biologists mapping the human microbiome expected to find new bacteria and viruses, not entities that slip through every ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

The School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences was honoured to host Professor John A. Rogers, Director of the Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics at Northwestern University, who delivered ...

AN almost pathetic interest attaches to the former of these works, since it is the last scientific communication which Prof. Cope was able to make to the world, and was sent to press only a few days ...

On the edge of Thai forests, an astonishing creature has been discovered, defying traditional biological classifications. This spider named Damarchus inazuma indeed exhibits a perfect bodily division ...

Do you know why the scientific name for human beings isn't just "humans"? It has an interesting reason! Homo sapiens, the scientific name for humans, is a way to tell what kind of people we are. It ...

Last month, over 350 academics, clinicians, and activists signed an open letter titled “Biology is not binary.” Addressed to Bridget Phillipson, the United Kingdom’s Minister for Women and Equalities, ...

What are your research topics? My research focuses on deciphering how chemicals, ranging from environmental pollutants to pharmaceutical compounds, interact with biological systems across different ...

As US President Donald Trump takes aim at the Smithsonian Institution for "anti-American ideology", Adam Rutherford examines what the science of genetics has taught us about race. When scientists ...

Amid the legal theater in the U.S. over sex and gender identity—triggered by a Trump administration decree that “‘sex’ shall refer to an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male ...

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. announced a new guidance defining 'mother' and 'father' based on biological classifications as part of President Trump’s policy. This move reverses recent ...