20 March 2023
Habitat and hunting protections have helped orca numbers rebound globally, but a group in the North Pacific Ocean is still shrinking – probably because it is isolated from other populations
25 March 2021
One species of whitefly, an aphid-like insect, carries a chunk of plant DNA in its genome that protects it from some of the poisons that plants produce
4 August 2020
Natural selection is the process by which some organisms in a population survive and reproduce, while others do not, based on their bodies and behaviour
21 July 2020
Are we shaped more by our genes or the environment in which we grow up and live? The truth involves both – and is a lot more complicated than we thought.
21 July 2020
Eugenics is the highly controversial idea that humanity could be improved by controlling who can produce children and pass on their genes
22 January 2020
The discovery of a link between anxiety, depression, OCD and more is set to revolutionise how we think about these conditions – and offer new treatments
12 December 2019
Geneticist Robert Plomin makes the case that DNA is more important than upbringing to a child’s personality, exam results and future income
13 November 2019
A worrying warrant for police access to a genealogy DNA databank in the US means no one’s genetic profile is safe – even if you don’t use the services
31 October 2019
Biochemistry is the study of the chemicals that make up life and how they behave.
18 September 2019
Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes.
