The Royal Society of Biology is pleased to announce the three shortlisted candidates for this year’s School Biology Teacher ...

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

Determining the mechanism of inheritance has played centre stage in the study of evolution, but no biological process can take place without energy to power it. Nick Lane shows how the development of ...

This careers resource was jointly developed by the Biochemical Society, British Ecological Society, British Pharmacological Society, Microbiology Society, Society for Experimental Biology, Royal ...

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 ...

The Royal Society of Biology offers warm congratulations to four of its Fellows who have recently been elected as Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales (Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru). As Wales’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Royal Society of Biology has announced this year’s winner of the Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year Award: Dr Sobia Kauser, Associate Professor at the University of Bradford. The ...