All forestry schools teach tree classification as a basic course. Lots of Latin names. Groups of similar trees, in at least some ways. It’s kinda fun but not for everybody.

The project provides a baseline for tracking microbial-population shifts with land-use changes and global warming.

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

From a dragonfly to marine organisms, photographer Michael Benson zoomed in with powerful scanning electron microscopes to ...

Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...

It's a ton of numbers crunching, and fortunately, somebody else crunched them for us.