When most people think about biodiversity in lakes and rivers, they imagine fish, plants, or perhaps birds and amphibians. But beneath the surface exists another world that often goes unnoticed: ...

Approximately 145 million: That's the number of specimens—including plants, animals, minerals, and human artifacts—curators ...

Pollen, algae, insects, radiolarians – each unique microfossil holds clues to how Earth has changed over millions of years.

In a major breakthrough, scientists have experimentally confirmed a universal growth law in two dimensions using a quantum ...

A long-standing mystery in materials science is beginning to unravel as researchers directly probe the hidden atomic ...

The sunlight-collecting organelles known as chloroplasts solve a packing problem: how to optimize photosynthesis without ...