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Interviews about Biology
Interviews about genetics, ecology and evolution, insects, mammals, marine science, plants and zoology...
What are the issues that a population of 8 billion people have to face?
What are the underlying factors behind our exponential growth, and how high will it go?
A new discovery that ant pupae feed their parents a nutritious milky substance
What Nanomia can teach us about the best way to use propulsion in the water
A sugar derived molecule from the shells of shellfish has shown promise as a method of birth control
How a follow up to a 65 year old study on Thames' mussels revealed some troubling results
How sounds we can't even hear might make us move more on the dancefloor...
Who will win this month's big brain award?
Joining us this week...
Cameras attached to tiger sharks have discovered the world's largest seagrass ecosystem
How bees detect electrical fields around flowers, and how fertilisers disrupt that
Primitive fish that invaded the land had a single lung; so why have terrestrial animals all got two?
Executive Director Damian Pattinson explains why this is the future of scientific publishing...
Do reproducible differences in the density of the myelin that insulates nerve connections explain the gift of the gab?
Scans during pregnancy show marmoset babies making crying faces...
We sample the spookiest sights and smells at Cambridge University's Botanic Garden...
11 sets of isolated amphipods may mean we could watch evolution happen in real time
A study measuring the electrical charge generated by bees found a shocking result
The alarming amount of discarded fishing equipment in our oceans has been calculated
There may be dormant viruses of different types lingering in the body and reawakened by coronavirus infection to cause...
How are researchers tackling long COVID?