Learn to experiment with R to make analyses and figures more reproducible. A course for Laboratory team leaders who want to improve the way they manage their teams and Postdoctoral researchers who ...

Full HUBS membership is open to university departments interested in contributing to debates on priorities in the biosciences. The Head of Department is normally the point of contact but they can also ...

10,000 polar artefacts, with a rolling exhibition and other artefacts kept in deep freeze vaults. Of course there are many exhibits belonging to the ill-fated Scott exhibition of 1912, including ...

many more ewes. The cow sheds too are quiet. They are very well ventilated. (A cow, if kept dry, does not suffer from the cold until the air temperature falls below minus 10C, a rare event in this ...

cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme produce more oxylipins than non-wounded cells[15], the myxobacterium Myxococcus xanthus twitches more actively sensing oxylipins[16], and the slime mould ...

to future pests or diseases if only the survivors remain to produce seed. We are investigating whether there might be a trade-off between resistance to ash dieback and resistance to insect pests. An ...

This project supports transition from primary to secondary school with peer to peer learning across age groups. Secondary students learn how to deliver the range of Gopher Science Lab activities to ...

Above: the characteristic holes or 'plaques' indicating bacteriophage infection of a plate of bacteria. Courtesy of Ninjatacoshell via Wikimedia commons. Bacteriophages found by members of the public ...

The Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year Award seeks to identify the UK’s leading bioscience higher education (HE) teachers, recognising the invaluable role they play in educating and ...

Perhaps nowhere else in the world are the effects of climate change more apparent than in the Arctic, where warming weather conditions are already resulting in significant changes to the extent and ...

The 2025 award has now closed. The award process has two stages: an initial detailed nomination, which is followed by a shortlisting of up to three candidates who are assessed in further detail ...

Some universities have year long industrial placements built into their bioscience degree courses. Under the watch of an assigned supervisor they allow students to build upon skills learnt through ...