The National Museum of Natural History’s herbarium is helping botanists research climate-driven changes in plants, their biology and their abundance Abigail Eisenstadt Through research on living and ...

Nothing gets abandoned or discarded here. Every plant is conferred with an identity and carefully preserved. The birth certificate is archived for posterity. The National Herbarium set deep within the ...

The museum’s collection of 145 million natural history specimens and objects is a tremendous scientific resource to researchers who study how people are rapidly shaping the future of life on Earth.

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...

The strange plant is ingrained in American history and well-represented in the museum’s herbarium and gardens Jack Tamisiea Of the more than 148 million specimens and objects in the National Museum of ...

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 ...

Some libraries do not consist of books, but plants. Yes, you read correctly, real plants. These plants are, however, not alive as in a botanical garden; they are dead and mounted on boards. A ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Each morning Rita Macheda sits at her computer with a dried plant that has been wrapped in paper, enclosed in a strawboard folder and ...

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