INTERVIEWS

"I once believed the people making decisions would listen to scientists - that is not true"

Former ecologist Emma Smart talks to Emma Wrake AMRSB about her recent arrest at an Extinction Rebellion protest, and why more and more scientists are joining the activist group

“There were at least three papers in 2019 that said coronaviruses might be a real problem in south China”

Professor Kate Jones says a woeful lack of communication between public health bodies and ecologists is failing to prevent spillover of animal diseases into human populations

Nature's champion

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

‘This is perhaps the first organism whose evolutionary history was in a computer’

Professor Michael Levin on his 'living robots', and the use of bio-electricity to reverse birth defects 

"The wave has only got bigger"

Co-inventor of CRISPR gene-editing technology Jennifer Doudna gives her view on one of the biggest science stories of the decade

"All I'm presenting is a range of possibilities"

Theoretical epidemiologist Professor Sunetra Gupta  discusses alternative models of how and when COVID-19 might have spread through the UK

"It's a Wild West online"

Superiorauthor Angela Saini discusses bias in science and her attempts to get online scientific information regulated