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 ...

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

Moving cannabis to a category of drugs that includes some common medicines will have implications for research, businesses and patients. By Jan Hoffman President Trump on Thursday ordered cannabis to ...

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on Earth. Now celebrated as the father of modern taxonomy, he developed the ...

Among the approximately 16,000 new species described every year, roughly 6,000 are insects. Pictured here is a lanternfly from India. About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump signed an executive order Dec. 18 to federally classify marijuana as a less dangerous substance, the biggest change for the drug since 1970 and an opportunity for ...

Former England cricket captain Sir Andrew Strauss has married for the second time - almost seven years to the day after the tragic passing of his first wife Ruth, the Daily Mail can reveal. The ...

The evidence standards framework (ESF) is a set of evidence standards for a wide range of digital health technologies (DHTs). Digital health technologies (DHTs) are developing at an increasing pace.

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