The platypus feeds its young with milk like a mammal, lays eggs like a bird, and produces venom like a reptile. It shocked zoologist George Shaw when he came across the mammal in 1799. Over 200 years later the near complete genome of the Platypus has been mapped by researchers...
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You would be forgiven for thinking the clue is in the name when you think about identical twins. Identical or “Monozygotic” twins are a result of a fertilisation of a single egg by a single sperm. Early on in the embryonic growth this fertilised egg splits into two; the twins. ...
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Are sex and gender always considered in research? I had thought it was a given. However in 2020, the European Commission asked only one third of research applicants to consider sex and gender in their funded research. It was one of the first research funders outside of medical research to...
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I wake up the day after election day knowing, as I grab my phone, my morning will go either of two ways. I never appreciate the power of a poll until BBC News loads and my expectations are tested with the real truth, not the predicted one. The majority of...
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