The official body charged with virus classification has released four new principles that bring order to the viral world. This provides a unified framework that will enable all viruses to be ...

Ah, metadata and taxonomies: what’s not to love? Ask your content creators and you’ll be told loud and clear: having to apply said metadata and taxonomies to content through tagging. Although rich and ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. For centuries, taxonomists have cataloged every living thing they could find. Expeditions have traveled the globe, searching for unknown species; ...

Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are celestial bodies whose orbits intersect with Earth’s, holding great significance for studying Solar System formation and evolution while posing potential collision ...

Are species constructs of the human mind? -- Why is there a species problem? -- Is the biological species a class or is it an individual? -- What are traits in taxonomy? -- Diversity within the ...

The Asteraceae constitute one of the largest and most widespread families of flowering plants, encompassing over 25 000 species in more than 1 600 genera. Traditional classification has relied heavily ...