Swedish botanist Carl (or Carolus) Linnaeus is, by some measures, the most influential person ever to have lived. He is famous for devising new systems for naming and grouping all living organisms, as ...

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Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) and Pune’s Prof. Ramkrishna More College have identified a new cockroach species in the Deccan plateau. The species, Neoloboptera peninsularis, has ...

Abstract: Logs are a common way to record detailed run-time information in software. As modern software systems evolve in scale and complexity, logs have become indispensable to understanding the ...

From poppy seeds and opium pipes to the astonishing truth about tulips, science and obsession collide in this aromatic history of plants and pioneers Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, died in 1715 ...

Flowers “belong at the center of the story of how our world came to be,” argues biologist Haskell (Sounds Wild and Broken) in this passionate examination. Compared to other lifeforms, flowers were ...

It’s always fascinated me that the initial copies of the book that is often described as the first in the decidedly English genre of “nature writing”, Gilbert White’s Natural History & Antiquities of ...

Kew's Director of Science, Professor Kathy Willis, describes the BBC Radio 4 series Plants: From Roots to Riches. The series provides a unique examination of the major breakthroughs in botanical ...

If you’ve ever navigated your way through a set of public restrooms, chances are you’ve been confronted with these glyphs: ♀ for female, ♂ for male. Interestingly, these circle-like shapes have ...

The writer has won the prestigious award in the Biography category with ‘Every Living Thing,’ the story of a confrontation between two great scientists that defined modern biology Jason Roberts, ...

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 ...