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Zone 1: Experiments to Try at Home
The experimental method | Society for Experimental Biology This video discusses key points of a scientific experiment, from coming up with a research question to interpreting your data. Home grown nature projects | Field Studies Council Learn how to...
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Prokaryotic Metabolism and Physiology (2nd Edition)
Byung Hong Kim and Geoffrey Michael Gadd Cambridge University Press, £49.99 This is an advanced textbook that thoroughly discusses the biology of prokaryotes, including both bacteria and archaea. It is set out in a similar way as many biochemistry...
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RSB@10: The first decade & beyond
The Society of Biology, now the Royal Society of Biology, was founded 10 years ago this month. The Biologist convened a panel of key figures in the Society’s history to discuss why a unified voice for the biosciences was needed, what the organisation...
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15 Conservation Topics to Watch in 2020
For the past eleven years, a panel of researchers - led by the conservation biologist Bill Sutherland – have convened to produce a ‘horizon scan’ of issues that could have a substantive effect on global conservation in the coming year. Towards the end...
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Carol Monaghan MP joins the RSB to discuss science funding and the need for more scientists in politics
RSB members were joined by Carol Monaghan MP to discuss spending cuts, policy work, and the activity of the Science and Technology Select Committee, as part of the RSB’s Engaging with Parliament event series. This Engaging with Parliament session...
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War on the world
Tom Ireland explores the potential for environmental disaster in eastern Ukraine – and how the pollution and degraded landscapes of war drive further conflict May 23rd 2022 The Novhorodske phenol factory lies roughly 35km north of the city of Donetsk...
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13 ways bioscience is helping fight climate change
October 4th Biologists have long been at the forefront of efforts to understand how a changing climate could impact life on Earth. But as greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, bioscientists, together with colleagues in other fields, are now...
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When ants 'move house'
Above: Lasius flavus workers with a cocoon in a disturbed nest. Picture courtesy of the author. What happens when an ant colony needs to relocate? Dr Elizabeth Evesham CBiol FRSB explains the fascinating insights gained from over four decades studying...
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Reports
Unearthing the buried soul: Homo naledi and the evolution of hominin mortuary practices 19 July 2021 How have awareness of mortality and the rituals associated with death and treatment of human remains evolved over time? Is modern Homo sapiens unique...
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Member profiles: Spiders, aquaculture and outreach
Our latest member profiles explore the working lives of Caribbean arachnologist Jo-Anne Nina Sewlal MRSB, marine biologist Joseph A Borg CBiol FRSB, and pharmacologist Nelson Chong FRSB These profiles appeared in the February / March 2020 issue of The...
