Image compiled from various Creative Commons sources. For centuries, researchers have painstakingly worked to fill out the tree of life. We’ve made some good progress. But in one sense, we’ve barely ...

The modern science biography must hold back no punches in its mission to represent the subject’s life, equally celebrating their great works while including their personal shortcomings. Jürgen Neffe’s ...

Jason is a general assignment reporter, with particular focus on genetic medicine and rare disease. Confidential tips can be sent on Signal at JasonMast.77. Jens Kuhn wasn’t surprised people accused ...

The classification of organisms is an important system for understanding how they are all related. Based on the Linnaeus method, organisms are arranged and grouped based on shared characteristics.

The application of phylogenetic taxonomic procedures led to improvements in the classification of bacteria assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria but even so there remains a need to further clarify ...

Map of the Aegean Sea, depicting the study area boundary, the National Marine Park of Alonissos Northern Sporades, as well as other coastal MPAs. The dotted line indicates a notional delimiter between ...

A symposium taking place on Tuesday (23 September 2014) at Cambridge University Botanic Garden will unite artists, writers, scientists and literary scholars to look at the poet John Clare’s close ...

As the number of environmental small subunit (SSU) ribosomal RNA gene sequences has greatly surpassed the number of cultured microorganisms, reconciliation of the established taxonomy and ...

American artist Mark Dion recently spent 18 months collaborating with scientists at London's Natural History Museum, collecting and identifying samples from four 'hidden' environments across the ...