Female meerkats compete to outgrow their sisters
26 May 2016Latest research shows subordinate meerkat siblings grow competitively, boosting their chance of becoming a dominant breeder when a vacancy opens up by making sure that...
A 100 million-year partnership on the brink of extinction
25 May 2016A symbiotic relationship that has existed since the time of the dinosaurs is at risk of ending, as habitat loss and environmental change mean that...
Opinion: How does a bike stay upright? Surprisingly, it’s all in the mind
24 May 2016Hugh Hunt (Department of Engineering) discusses how we manage to stay upright on a bicycle.
Opinion: GM crops already feed much of the world today – why not tomorrow’s generations too?
24 May 2016Professor Sir Venki Ramakrishnan (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) discusses how genetically modified crops could help solve the problem of food security.
Urgent action needed to close UK languages gap
24 May 2016The UK Government needs to urgently adopt a new, comprehensive languages strategy if it is to keep pace with its international competitors and reduce a...
Opinion: The flower breeders who sold X-ray lilies and atomic marigolds
24 May 2016Helen Anne Curry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) discusses the history of our fascination with floral novelties.
Study finds little change in the IMF’s policy advice, despite rhetoric of reform
24 May 2016Researchers describe IMF as having an “escalating commitment to hypocrisy”, as study reveals that strict lending conditions have returned to pre-crisis levels, while ‘pro-poor’ targets...
Opinion: More accountability needed in how drugs are priced and reimbursed
23 May 2016Lawrence King (Department of Sociology) and Piotr Ozieranski (University of Bath) discuss how EU member states use complex policy instruments to determine how much they are willing...
Opinion: Dear young people: here’s why you need to vote in the EU referendum
20 May 2016Catherine Barnard (Faculty of Law) discusses why it's so important that young people vote in the EU referendum.
Genes discovered that enable birds to produce the colour red
20 May 2016Latest research suggests a new mechanism for how sexual displays of red beaks and plumage might be ‘honest signals’ of mate quality, as genes that...