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Futuristic fibres

Jolanta Beinarovica AMRSB explores how synthetic biology is helping produce custom spider silks with a range of extraordinary mechanical and biological properties in quantities that would be impossible to extract from spiders

Nature's champion

Sir David Attenborough speaks to The Biologist about his life-long interest in the natural world

The fab C4

Can we bioengineer trees to grow quicker and store more carbon?

Scientists of the world unite!

Since the pandemic began Tom Ireland has been talking to bioscientists from around the world who have sprung into action to help to understand, track and treat COVID-19

Watch your language

Dr Rebecca Nesbit asks whether prejudiced language is getting in the way of sound ecological decision-making

Climate: Code Red

As the need for action on climate change and species loss becomes more urgent, an increasing number of scientists are turning to environmental activism. Emma Wrake AMRSB speaks to some of them

Back to nature

As a UK exam board examines the possibility of a new GCSE in natural history, Helen Robertson explores what the subject is and what it might bring to 21st century pupils

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