Swedish botanist Carl (or Carolus) Linnaeus is, by some measures, the most influential person ever to have lived. He is famous for devising new systems for naming and grouping all living organisms, as ...

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 ...

THE student of modern geography by whom this classical work is read for the first time, might well feel that even in the few years, little more than a decade, since the original issue, most of this ...

It’s always fascinated me that the initial copies of the book that is often described as the first in the decidedly English genre of “nature writing”, Gilbert White’s Natural History & Antiquities of ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s always fascinated me that the initial copies of the book that is often described as the first in the decidedly English genre of ...

This Genome Watch discusses the great biosynthetic capacity that has been identified in marine environmental and host-associated microbiomes, along with approaches to facilitate research into these ...

Elvis Picardo is a regular contributor to Investopedia and has 25+ years of experience as a portfolio manager with diverse capital markets experience. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, ...

Andrew Strauss has married for the second time, seven years after the tragic death of his first wife Ruth, who passed away in December 2018 at the age of 46 following a battle with a rare form of lung ...