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My Lab Unlocked: Professor of Sustainable Biotechnology, Louise Horsfall FRSB
Professor Louise Horsfall on using microbes to generate in-demand materials, such as lithium, from waste Certain bacteria have the ability to form metal-based nanoparticles allowing them to survive in what might otherwise be toxic concentrations of...
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Future Sea: How to Rescue and Protect the World’s Oceans
Deborah Rowan Wright The University of Chicago Press, £20.00 Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution people have been, and will continue to be, the nemesis of the health, biodiversity and longevity of our seas and oceans. The time of writing of...
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A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin’s Descent of Man got Right and Wrong About Human Evolution
Jeremy Desilva (Ed.) Princeton University Press, £22.00 Have a really good idea, then recruit some excellent science communicators to implement it and you have a great chance of producing a book with widespread appeal. That formula seems to work very...
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Pollination: The Enduring Relationship between Plant and Pollinator
Timothy Walker Princeton University Press, £25.00 Pollination is the transference of pollen grains from a male structure of a plant to a female structure, a process which results in progeny and is thus a fundamental aspect of plant survival. It is...
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Deep trouble
Above: the SHINKAI 6500 submersible at the Edmond hydrothermal vent field on the Central Indian Ridge. Chong CHEN / JAMSTEC. Next year, the first commercial-scale mining operations in international waters are due to start, helping feed a growing demand...
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Future
Shaping the future You might think that we know all there is to know about biology. It is true that we have learnt a lot (but not everything) about how individual bits and individual organisms work, but organisms (be it humans, animals, plants or even...
