To take part in the rest of the festival’s activities, visit the Lambeth Country Show website for more activities, shows and more. Have you ever wondered why insects like butterflies have long, thin ...

The modern-day pressures – and opportunities – to communicate science to a wider audience can make it seem as though science communication is somehow 'new'. But from the very earliest days of public ...

Upulie Divisekera is an Australian molecular biologist and science communicator. She is co-founder of the @realscientists Twitter account, which sees different scientists take over each week to post ...

In our very first episode of the Biosphere Podcast, we dive into the world of animal behaviour and talk to Professor Sir Ian Boyd, RSB's President about his research and his science policy experience ...

As Alexander Pope said: “Trust not yourself, but your defects to know” – after all, “perfection is a trifle dull”. Human Errors is a description of some of our ‘defects’, many of which are peculiar to ...

The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) is the name given to the most recent common ancestor of all existing life on Earth. It is the population of cells from roughly four billion years ago from ...

Professor Janey Henderson studied at Aberdeen and Manchester Universities before gaining her PhD from Durham University, a CASE award with Rothamsted Experimental Station. Janey completed ...

Much has been done in the UK by scientific societies, including the RSB, to promote understanding and interest in the beneficial and harmful actions of microorganisms. I was encouraged to study ...

Above: San Children in Andriesvaal, Kalahari, South Africa (by Migail de Klerk). Exporting unethical practices to low- and middle-income countries has become the new face of exploitative research, ...

The theme for our 2024 photography competition was Transforming Life. The Society would like to congratulate the winners and shortlisted photographers, announced ahead of the Biology Week Networking ...

Since 2009 the RSB policy team have produced well over 250 letters, briefing notes, position statements, consultation responses and reports, on a huge range of policy topics, expressing key messages ...

These excellent titles were shortlisted for the Royal Society of Biology Book Awards, celebrating outstanding biology books for the general reader, as well as exceptional undergraduate and ...