How do birds fly? A hands-on demonstration
Dissect a chicken from the supermarket to discover the unusual pulley system that enables birds to fly.
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Dissect a chicken from the supermarket to discover the unusual pulley system that enables birds to fly.
Model organisms – yeast, worms, flies and mice – help researchers to probe the secrets of life.
Scientists propose a new hypothesis to tackle one of the big remaining mysteries in animal evolution.
Encourage your students to enter our writing competition – and see their work published.
One of the world’s largest migrations is probably driven by a hormone that governs our sleep patterns.
What makes a cell turn cancerous – and how does a cancer become infectious? In the second of two articles on transmissible cancers, Elizabeth Murchison explains what the genetic details tell us.
Is it possible to pass cancer from one individual to another? For some animals, it is – and, sadly, a unique Tasmanian species is facing possible extinction as a result.
Evolutionary relationships can be tricky to explain. By using simple, everyday objects, your students can work them out for themselves.
In the African forest, Fabian Leendertz and his team look for new infectious agents that can be transmitted from animals to humans. Could one of them cause the next pandemic?
Soaring temperatures, a flooded landscape, violent winds…. What would our planet be like without the Moon?
How do birds fly? A hands-on demonstration
Life models
What happens when cells embrace damage?
Student competition: the search for the strangest species on Earth
How plankton gets jet-lagged
Infectious cancers: the DNA story
Infectious cancers
Phylogenetics of man-made objects: simulating evolution in the classroom
Evolving threats: investigating new zoonotic infections
Life without the Moon: a scientific speculation