basket of figs so she can evade Caesar's humiliating triumph. As with everything about Cleopatra, the moment is also deeply erotic, "a lover's pinch", as two elements conjoin in a moment that combines ...

It is always a pleasure to read about a scientist’s work in a book written for the non-specialist who may be interested in knowing more about a subject for a variety of reasons. It is no mean task to ...

People think of chameleons as the masters of camouflage, but the coleoids – octopuses, squid and cuttlefish – are far ahead in terms of manipulating their appearance[1]. Because their skin appearance ...

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 ...

As with so many findings, the so-called 'immortal jellyfish' was discovered by accident. During a visit to my laboratory in the 1980s, a German student, Christian Sommer, and my very first student, ...

Winner: Jiyoo Erin Lee, age 10, from Seoul Foreign School, South Korea Highly commended: Eugene Han, age 11, from Seoul Foreign School, South Korea Highly commended: Jasmine Wills, age 11, from ...

before the white-BAME awarding gap will close, and 2085-86 before the white-black awarding gap will close, according to Gary Loke, director of knowledge, innovation and delivery at Advance HE. These ...

appreciative of Shere Hite's books. He is less critical of the National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal) than I would be. He recommends Bonk as a source (I haven't seen it), and he ...

Earlier this year, we asked Fellows of the RSB to suggest their ideas for the biggest biology stories and most important research of 2017. We had responses from across all areas of the biosciences – ...

In 1988, French doctor Eliane Gluckman saved a five-year-old boy from North Carolina by treating him with what was then deemed medical waste. The boy had been diagnosed with Fanconi anaemia, a rare ...

The Events Working Group (EWG) is a new initiative by the Royal Society of Biology (RSB) to curate and manage high-quality, accessible events for individual and organisational members. Its primary ...

The Science of Walking retraces the history of the growing interest in the physical act of walking - locomotion - in Western societies (particularly France, Germany, and Britain). Through the 19th ...