Biology
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YouTube - Oxford University
Professor Fritz Vollrath discusses the appeal of working with spiders–and the amazing properties of the silk which they and other creatures produce, a candidate for 'material of the future'.
TEDtalk
Call it "fuel without fossils": Jonathan Trent is working on a plan to grow new biofuel by farming micro-algae in floating offshore pods that eat wastewater from cities. Hear his team's bold vision for Project OMEGA (Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae) and how it might power the future.
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Watch past Biology lectures from Gresham College.
Watch Biology TEDtalks.
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Biology - Things We Don't Know
Discover the open questions biologists are trying to answer with Things We Don't Know
The Royal Society
Discover the open questions biologists are trying to answer with Things We Don't Know
Into Biology
Discover the open questions biologists are trying to answer with Things We Don't Know
Biology Library
Here you can browse videos, articles and exercises by topic.
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Podcast
A Revision Podcast for A-Level Biology Students Hosted by Ria Corbett and Sarah Matthews. Ria Corbett, a science teacher, will be teaching Sarah, her younger sister, topic by topic to provide you the listener with an audio revision resource.
Podcast - Oxford University
A weekly dose of the weird, wonderful and wild. We'll be interviewing some of Oxford's foremost academics about their favourite animals (and plants) to find out what makes them tick.
Podcast
Scientists talking to scientists, but accessible to anyone. We are living in a golden age of biology research. Big Biology is a podcast that tells the stories of scientists tackling some of the biggest unanswered questions in biology.
Podcast - BBC News World Service
Amazing things humans have learnt from the animal kingdom. Inspiring, fascinating, bingeable. Updated: weekly.
Podcast - BBC Radio 4
Witty, irreverent look at the world through scientists' eyes. With Brian Cox and Robin Ince.
Podcast - BBC Radio 4
Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work, finding out what inspires and motivates them and asking what their discoveries might do for us in the future.
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