
Blood
4 August 2020
Blood is one of our most important bodily fluids. As blood flows around our bodies, it carries essential substances to our cells, and removes wastes.
4 August 2020
Blood is one of our most important bodily fluids. As blood flows around our bodies, it carries essential substances to our cells, and removes wastes.
4 August 2020
Natural selection is the process by which some organisms in a population survive and reproduce, while others do not, based on their bodies and behaviour
21 July 2020
Are we shaped more by our genes or the environment in which we grow up and live? The truth involves both – and is a lot more complicated than we thought.
21 July 2020
Eugenics is the highly controversial idea that humanity could be improved by controlling who can produce children and pass on their genes
31 October 2019
Biochemistry is the study of the chemicals that make up life and how they behave.
17 June 2019
A species is a group of living organisms that are all broadly similar and can, at least in principle, breed with one another.
20 June 2018
There are low levels of cocaine and other drugs in many rivers, and lab studies suggest that European eels are suffering muscle damage as a result
1 September 2017
The ostrich appears to be unique in the animal kingdom, because it has two kneecaps on each knee rather than one. The question is why
18 August 2014
Say hello to the California jumping gall wasp – its larvae just love hopping all over the place
17 December 2013
Be it mammoth, penguin or a distant human ancestor, the first genome sequence to pass this milestone will be a triumph