Biology

Fungi: The Web of Life. Video, 37 minutes
Biologist Merlin Sheldrake travels the globe, exploring the secret world of fungi.
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BBC Four
Available for over a year
Polar bears face higher risk of disease in a warming Arctic
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Climate
Posted
24 October
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358
Animal shelter asks Royal Navy to rehome turtle
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Guernsey
Posted
24 September
Scuba diving marine biologists visit Alderney
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Guernsey
Posted
13 September
CrowdScience. Can my body regenerate? Audio, 32 minutes
Where do our healing powers begin and where do they end?
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
Are we thinking about alien life all wrong? Video, 00:05:47
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BBC
Posted
29 August
How I overcame my addiction. Video, 00:07:01
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BBC
Posted
29 August
How fireflies inspired energy-efficient lights. Video, 00:01:30
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BBC
Posted
22 August
How a kingfisher helped reshape Japan's bullet train. Video, 00:01:21
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BBC
Posted
22 August
The Conversation. Women, bats and meerkats. Audio, 27 minutes
Costa Rican and Swiss biologists discuss what animal behaviour reveals about life
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BBC World Service
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X-rays reveal tiny half-billion-year-old creature
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Science & Environment
Posted
31 July
CrowdScience. How many flies have ever existed? Audio, 31 minutes
Flies are everywhere. But just how many have ever lived?
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BBC World Service
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One of the worst coral bleaching events ever seen at Great Barrier Reef
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Newsround
Posted
27 June
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9
Chimpanzees ‘self-medicate’ with healing plants
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Science & Environment
Posted
21 June
Witness History. Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate. Audio, 9 minutes
In 1992 a student found a set of fossilised footprints from the earliest vertebrate
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BBC World Service
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New AI tool speeds up search for disease genes
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Science & Environment
Posted
19 September 2023
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132
'Alarming and unprecedented' Irish bird flu warning
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Europe
Posted
14 July 2023
Play gives voice to 'mother' of modern medicine
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Bristol
Posted
10 June 2023
How the power of protein is being uncovered
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Business
Posted
18 May 2023
The Life Scientific. Rebecca Kilner on beetle behaviours and evolution. Audio, 29 minutes
How corpse-based beetles can answer long-standing questions about human evolution.
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BBC Radio 4
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The Life Scientific. A passion for fruit flies. Audio, 28 minutes
Bambos Kyriacou tells Jim Al-Khalili why he studies the behaviour of fruit flies.
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BBC Radio 4
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The Life Scientific. Why study sewage? Audio, 29 minutes
Leon Barron tells Jim Al-Khalili how he developed an intense interest in sewage.
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BBC Radio 4
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CrowdScience. Why are fish fish-shaped? Audio, 32 minutes
There are over 30, 000 species of fish – are they really all a similar shape?
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BBC World Service
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Evolution pioneer's medals to be auctioned
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Wales
Posted
16 July 2022