The official body charged with virus classification has released four new principles that bring order to the viral world. This provides a unified framework that will enable all viruses to be ...
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; ...
Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are celestial bodies whose orbits intersect with Earth’s, holding great significance for studying Solar System formation and evolution while posing potential collision ...
Together with a South American team, Senckenberg scientist Juan Pablo Hurtado-Gómez has described two new toadheaded pitvipers. To date, hardly anything is known about these venomous snakes, which are ...
Taxonomy, or the naming of species, is the foundation of modern biology. It might sound like a fairly straightforward exercise, but in fact it’s complicated and often controversial. Why? Because there ...
Scientific name of horse: The relationship between humans and horses has changed from one dependent on survival-based hunting to one based on a complex partnership that includes sports, farming, and ...
Nadia Humphreys, Head of Climate and Regulatory Solutions at Bloomberg, outlines the value of pursuing equivalence on green taxonomy development to ensure interoperability. A green taxonomy is a ...