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Students vote Biological Sciences Department of the Year!

18 Jul 2017

This year's Laurel Awards, set up by Royal Holloway's Student Union, saw the School of Biological Sciences voted as Department of the Year.

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.

Top Royal Society of Biology Award received by Royal Holloway student

19 May 2017

James March, a student in the School of Biological Sciences @ Royal Holloway, received the 'Top Graduate of an Accredited Programme Award' at the Royal Society of Biology's Degree Accreditation awards

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.
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