Within CHRB is the Rutgers Mycological Herbarium (RUTPP) which has about 40,000 fungal collections and a focus on microfungi and plant pathogens. It has catalogued a worldwide collection with an ...

Harvard researchers identified a new fossilized species of tardigrade — known as “water bears” — scientists reported in an Aug. 6 paper in “Communications Biology.” Researchers used confocal laser ...

Taxonomy, or the naming of species, is surprisingly complicated – and contentious. It doesn't take much scientific expertise to divide lions from tigers, or pigeons from flamingos, but details count ...

Mr. Langellier is a writer and field botanist in Vermont. In 2009, the botanist Naomi Fraga was hunting a flower without a name near Carson City, Nev. Ms. Fraga saw that the plant was going extinct in ...

Palmer Candy Company, Sioux City, Iowa, is recalling its “White Coated Confectionary Items” because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. For centuries, taxonomists have cataloged every living thing they could find. Expeditions have traveled the globe, searching for unknown species; ...

In the quest to decipher the evolutionary relationships of extinct organisms from fossils, researchers often face challenges in discerning key features from weathered fossils, or with prioritizing ...

More than 1 in 4 American adults identify as "religious nones," meaning they consider themselves to be "atheist," "agnostic" or "nothing in particular," according to a report from the Pew Research ...