INTERVIEWS

Is nature healing?

Professor Christian Rutz explores the early findings from a massive study on how the global ‘anthropause’ caused by COVID-19 restrictions has impacted wildlife 

‘I’m ridiculously positive about the media’s coverage of COVID-19’

Scientific reporting has come a long way since the days of 'frankenfoods' and vaccine scare stories, says Fiona Fox OBE Hon FRSB

 

“If this doesn’t work, I’m not sure anything will”

Professor Sarah Gilbert on the science behind one of the world’s most advanced COVID-19 vaccine trials, and what still needs to be done to prove it is safe and effective

"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 
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