Birds are the soundtrack to our mornings, they soar through our skies and swoop around our streets, but how well do we really know our feathered friends?

Illustrating how the graphic nature and tonal range of black-and-white photography can simplify elements, emphasise form or create drama, whatever the subject. As spring awakens in the upland birch ...

Specialisms: History of Collections, Mammal collections, Wet Curation, Marsupials, Monotremes, Taxidermy, Curation As Senior Curator in Charge of Mammals, my ...

I am a mineralogist who studies the crystal-chemistry, atomic-structure and stability of minerals. These properties enable us to constrain the geochemical and geological conditions under which the ...

While many people might leap at the chance of an adventure, deep sea scientist Dr María Belén Arias Mella was on holiday and initially concerned when she saw the name of her team leader, Dr Adrian ...

Responsible for the management of the Lepidoptera collections (80,000 drawers, 10 million+ specimens) including management of five curators.

Genetic changes that can increase the yield of one crop don’t necessarily work for others, even if they’re close relatives.

By sequencing the genome of 22 different species within the genus Solanum, which includes vital crops like potatoes, tomatoes, and aubergines, researchers have developed a pan-genome, an advanced ...

Researchers have discovered that a neglected moth was originally collected almost 170 years ago by Alfred Russell Wallace, and have now used it to help describe a further 11 new species. The story ...

Scientists were able to prove that rather than being a single neglected species, Topiris is in fact a genus of 14 species, including 11 species which are new to science. A moth neglected by experts ...

As part of its seventh carbon budget, which establishes emission targets for 2038-2042, the CCC predicts that electrifying ...