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“You learn on the job how to think like a filmmaker rather than a biologist”
experience lies. I'm absolutely useless in the jungle or with anything to do with climbing – I'm quite happy being cold, but I hate being hot and sweaty. You are passionate about reducing plastic waste – I assume you've seen some pretty depressing...
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Interview: Dr Elizabeth White
experience lies. I'm absolutely useless in the jungle or with anything to do with climbing – I'm quite happy being cold, but I hate being hot and sweaty. You are passionate about reducing plastic waste – I assume you've seen some pretty depressing...
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Resistance fighters
There is even a report from Ukraine inthe 1970s of a strain resistant to hydrogen cyanide. It is said that during the Cold War, the Soviet Union suspected that the beetle was part of a CIA plot to threaten food security. The mechanisms of resistances...
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Could legalising the trade in rhino horn save the species?
be killed in the foreseeable future – there is just too much money to be made from illegally hunted rhino horn. In terms of cold hard cash, right now rhino are worth far more dead, as horn on the streets of Vietnam, than alive in the African bush or the...
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Autumn heatwave sparks spider influx
Adam Hart FRSB from the University of Gloucestershire said: “You'd think that spiders would head indoors because of the cold, but invertebrates are more active when it's warm and perhaps the warmer weather at the moment combined with the start of autumn...
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An evening with Sir Alec Jeffreys
Did he ever doubt his findings? "Yep. When I stood up there and said 'there's no doubt' I had a huge doubt. My blood ran cold. This was a chilling case. I'd spent my entire career up until that point in a lab or lecturing. Then suddenly to be faced with...
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Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise
as gel electrophoresis allowed rapid progress, and the political climate following World War II was conducive to research. Cold War ideologies in the US led to generous funding: science was seen as an example of free thought, which only the 'Free World'...
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An evening with Alec Jeffreys
Did he ever doubt his findings? "Yep. When I stood up there and said 'there's no doubt' I had a huge doubt. My blood ran cold. This was a chilling case. I'd spent my entire career up until that point in a lab or lecturing. Then suddenly to be faced with...
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One small step for a man...
started to walk again with assistance, to feel again and to regain some sexual function. For me, the story began in the cold winter of 1947. The whole hillside in Meanwood, Yorkshire, had been covered with a thick, sloping blanket of snow that was, like...
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Crick Questions: Sir Paul Nurse
between biology and English, and then I went towards ecology, but I found it so uncontrollable – and I didn't like getting cold wet feet early in the morning and not finding anything. So I retreated to the lab. I am an amateur astronomer. I wouldn't...
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Safe Haven
Soviets (Half Cushman & Flint, London, 1934). 5. Perutz, M. Enemy Alien, Perutz, I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier, 73–106 (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1998). 6. Royal Society 93 HO 9.7.11 Pflug to Dale 30 March 1943. Further Reading Ferry, G....
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Starling survey reveals new murmuration hot spots
the night. As it is warmer roosting as part of a big group it is possible that there is more stimulus for murmurations in cold weather.” There are other species of birds that flock together and undertake unusual movement, especially in the presence of a...
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Sport
biologists have linked high-intensity endurance exercise to a reduction in immune system function leading in an increase of cold and flu infections. This is important information for athletes who complete in events such as triathlons or marathons as it...
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Ignorance: How it Drives Science
Me. The big problem, for me, is a formal one. In the title, ‘Ignorance’ isn’t a something, it’s an absence, like darkness, cold or a vacuum; the technical term is a privative. So there isn’t an ‘it’ to drive anything. However, this is a great little...
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Spotlight on: Cryobiology
either for future study or simply as a record of biodiversity. Certain bacteria can survive thousands of years in extremely cold temperatures, while many plants and animals have interesting adaptations to prevent their tissues freezing. Cryogenics is a...
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Breaking the Ice: Jane Francis
and six field trips to the Arctic, and they are fantastic places to work. It's amazing to go somewhere that is so remote and cold and find a leaf that shows the climate was once almost tropical there. Whenever you set up camp in the field – a huge...
