My list of medically related anniversaries for 2026 includes William Withering’s Botany, The Botanical Arrangement of All the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain , which was published 250 ...

Every year, scientists add thousands of new names to the great book of life. This momentum was initiated by the work of ...

Lemon's scientific name is Citrus limon, part of the Rutaceae family. India is a top lemon producer, yielding over 21 million ...

Jupiter reaches opposition on Jan. 10, when it will shine all night at its brightest as Earth moves between the giant planet and the sun. A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's ...

New species are being discovered faster than ever before - at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study.

The autonomic nervous system is the part of the peripheral nervous system that controls visceral functions such as heart rate, respiratory rate and digestion. It consists of enteric, parasympathetic ...

Grasonville, Maryland — On a warm evening in the spring of 2020, Jeremy Feinberg stood at the edge of a moonlit pond. He was on the Delmarva Peninsula, on the east side of Chesapeake Bay. “Chuck!” ...

The identification of geographical patterns in microbial distributions has begun to challenge purely ecological explanations of biogeography and the underlying principle of “everything is everywhere: ...