Browsing the "Biology" Category

Nobel Prize Winners 2021: Discovery of Touch & Temperature Receptors

January 2nd, 2022 | by Eldrian Tho

Two American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian were awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their “discoveries of…

January 2nd, 2022 | by Eldrian Tho

100 years since the discovery of insulin!! The year was 1921. Sir Frederick G Banting (pictured) and Charles H Best…

January 18th, 2018 | by Alexandra Kruglikov

The human race – it is like a universe full of enigmas, which we have strived to unravel for hundreds…

January 9th, 2017 | by Rosslyn Watret

As a first year marine biology student I gave up eating fish due to not being able to establish which…

November 24th, 2016 | by Olga Jarosinska

Recently, you might have seen on the news or on your Facebook page, articles pronouncing the Great Barrier Reef dead…

April 5th, 2016 | by Olga Jarosinska

Everyone enjoys a big flavourful steak or a nice juicy burger, right? However, with increase of the human population creating…

November 4th, 2015 | by Zoe McKellar

You’d be forgiven for thinking that a giant tortoise would find it pretty hard to hide, but that’s exactly what…

September 10th, 2015 | by Laura Machado

Laura Machado speaks about building networks with organic substrate. A yellow blob that likes porridge. This is how the humble…