In 1770, after Captain Cook’s Endeavour struck the Great Barrier Reef and was held up for repairs, botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander collected hundreds of plants. One of those pressed plants ...

An extensive botanical reference library that’s a growing resource for documenting and doing research has been on the Iowa State University campus for more than one-and-a-half centuries. The Ada ...

Digitizing the records of our herbarium specimens is important for expanding our scientific reach, but safely securing museum specimens is essential for current and future botanical research. Gary ...

AMES, Iowa – The offices on the perimeter of the third floor of Bessey Hall on the Iowa State University campus have windows. A complex of four adjacent interior rooms across the hallway from those ...

Matthew Austin, curator of biodiversity data at the Missouri Botanical Garden, looks through Dogwood tree samples in the herbarium.. Austin’s research shows Dogwood trees are blooming earlier in the ...

Indigenous readers are advised that this article contains some disturbing historical information. On the fringes of Sydney, just as the suburbs taper out into farmland and bush, there's a shiny new ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. What we devise for one purpose has a way of being useful for another. My favourite example is the lotion Skin ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A rare collection of plant specimens dating back to the 1840s and originating from the southeastern United States has arrived at the herbarium at Virginia Tech.