A young Sri Lankan scientist, Himesh Jayasinghe, has rediscovered more than 100 of 177 possibly extinct species in Sri Lanka as well as three of five extinct species and both species previously ...
A pod of sperm whales move into a defence line to stop a pod of killer whales getting to their calf, off the coast of Sri Lanka. Researchers in an area targeted for deep sea mining recently observed ...
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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 ...
Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. Social scientists and historians have long debated the term racism, resulting in different ...
In Greece, Easter is not only a deeply spiritual celebration but also a season when nature, too, takes part—most memorably through the blooming of the lilac. The lilac’s fragrant blossoms appear just ...
TUESDAY last, Jan. 10, marked the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death of Linnaeus. Carolus Linnaeus-afterwards Carl von Linne-was born on May 23, 1707, the eldest child of Nils Linnaeus, ...
The SI unit we use today for measuring temperature was proposed by Swedish astronomer and mathematician Anders Celsius. Throughout his life, he remained dedicated to developing theories related to ...
What began as a concept of classification evolved into an agent of war and a symbol of supremacy and oppression that continues to haunt humankind to this day. We tend to think of race as a scientific ...
Looking at a bowl of oranges, I often catch myself thinking that these are playthings rather than fruit. Here in Portugal, oranges are plentiful and are often quite large in size with bumpy sides and ...
Women have long been at the forefront of gardening, whether passing agricultural traditions from generation to generation, organizing garden clubs and beautification societies, or — in some cases — ...
Deep beneath the headquarters of the Linnean Society, in Burlington House on Piccadilly, is a bomb-proof room built at the height of the Cold War to protect the collections of the Swedish naturalist ...