Biology

Beyond just looking stunning, shininess may help insects confuse predators to avoid being eaten

Professor Jennifer Flegg uses mathematics to solve biological problems like wound healing and infectious diseases

Ants, beetles, and all other invertebrates have complex immune systems which can protect their offspring

The genome of an Australian fly has won an evolutionary “arms race” against a killer bacteria by evolving to co-exist with it

There are trillions of cells in the human body, and researchers are developing new mathematics to understand how they work

Unlike us, plants can’t head to the fridge for a midnight snack, but a new study shows they sense time at dusk to conserve energy produced from sunlight during the day

Dr Jared Field’s work in mathematical biology is trying to understand real-world issues – from sleep and menopause, to the hard science behind traditional Indigenous practices

Animals like beetles and birds are teaching us new ways of understanding colour at a nanoscale, which could change the way we manufacture it

Why Cryo-EM, or speed-freezing molecules to create 3D images that can diagnose human cell behaviour, is taking the structural biology world by storm

Nobel Laureate Professor Randy Schekman on the value of scepticism, and why the scientific method needs to be defended now more than ever