Deal or no deal: Animals who assist with parenting may simply be playing the market

29 Jun 2017

For centuries evolutionary biologists have been considering a difficult question: why do some animals ‘choose’ not to have children and instead help others rear their young?

Applying a household acid to plants in drought could help secure food crops

28 Jun 2017

New research published in the journal Nature Plants has identified a novel survival strategy that helps protect plants against the effects of drought.

Royal Holloway at the Chelsea Flower Show

25 May 2017

Two projects supervised by Professor Alan Gange from the School of Biological Sciences are featuring at the Chelsea Flower Show this year.

TVs Food Unwrapped features our colourful plant research

23 May 2017

Innovative research by plant biologists, Dr Tony Stead & Dr Paul Devlin from the School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway, was featured on an episode of Channel 4 food programme Food Unwrapped.

Giving schools a biodiversity boost

19 May 2017

Undergraduates from Royal Holloway’s School of Biological Sciences have been helping local schools to learn about and make homes for, wildlife from beetles to birds, fauna to fungi in their school.

Revealed: what the first ever flower looked like

08 Feb 2017

A new study published this week in Nature Communications reconstructs the evolution of flowers over the past 140 million years and sheds new light on what the earliest flowers might have looked like.