- baboons can be robbers
- Bachelard, Gaston
- Bacteria are happy to feed on hydrogen sulphide
- Banca species are as if the Isle of Man had distinct fauna from the rest of the British Isles
- bands in prepared chromosomes are like GPS with poor satellite coverage
- battery-of-tests principle
- BBC Inside Science
- bees marshall themselves as they think best
- bees realised meat was available and decided to stop being vegetarian
- bees used geometrical forethought to work out the best shape for honeycomb cells
- Bertalanffy, Ludwig von
- Betelgeuse is ringing at a changed freqency
- Betelgeuse shows petulant behaviour
- bifurcationists in the laboratory would be like atheists in the trenches
- bioorthogonal chemistry is a cousin of click chemistry
- black box resembles a company's annual report
- black hole is the ultimate waste disposal unit
- black hole might be eating solar wind
- black holes can compose
- black holes in merged galaxies sink
- blended learning
- blood maturation is like wine fermentation
- bracketing
- brain area is like a junction box
- British Science Association
- Bruner, Jerome
- Bunge, Mario
- butterflies can be shy