The Viscount Stansgate FRSB addressed the House of Lords during a debate on Friday 17 January 2025 on the Consumer Products ...

The Royal Society of Biology is working in partnership with the Field Studies Council to bring you the Signs of Spring survey ...

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 ...

This straight line represents the border between nature and the humanity. However, human impact like this can be seen all over the world with ecosystems going through huge, dramatic changes. Almost ...

The translocation of species from their native range to new environments is an increasingly common phenomenon as the world becomes ever more interconnected. The resulting biological homogenisation ...

The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) is an international conservation charity. ZSL engages with millions of people through two zoos, ZSL London and ZSL Whipsnade Zoo, each year. ZSL are actively ...

What happens if you put a philosopher in scuba diving kit? It sounds like the set-up for a joke, but it is in fact the basis of this incredible book on cephalopods by Peter Godfrey-Smith. The ...

Maggots have a bad reputation. Wriggling, amorphous things, they are generally seen as synonymous with decay. However, behind the horror-film images there lurks a biological marvel that has intrigued ...

Professor Black is director of the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at the University of Dundee. She is a founder and past president of the British Association for Human Identification and ...

The Society's membership magazine The Biologist has been shortlisted in the PPA Scotland Magazine Awards. The Biologist won Best Design at the awards last year, and was shortlisted for Best Magazine.

This could be an unsettling read. In essence, the authors consider that the modern synthesis theory of evolution and genetics is too narrow a concept, perhaps even simplistic. They portray the linear ...

This intriguing book seeks to explore why evolutionary theory is so difficult for some people to accept. Kampourakis draws on Dobzhansky (1973) by quoting that "without evolution, biology is a pile of ...