“One of the animal kingdom’s greatest and most unappreciated symbioses.” Brandon Keim on fungus-farming beetles.

US government proposes required consent for all human tissue research, citing Rebecca Skloot’s Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in the decision.

I’m now a freelancer. My new workplace.

“My god is this complexity ever going to end?” You can spend 37yrs studying spider dancing & barely scratch the surface.

Jennifer Frazer on the almighty prion (“the Rasputin of biology”) and why the humble lichen f**ks them up

“Our knowledge of the past is almost completely deodorized.” Fascinating piece on the smell of history, by Courteney Humphries

The media reacts to the news that the Norwegian terror suspect isn’t Muslim.

The ocean microbe within us.