Classification and taxonomy articles from across Nature Portfolio The discipline of classification and taxonomy involves the grouping of organisms into categories based on different properties ...

A troubling trend with global echoes and local implications By Dr Isuru U. Kariyawasam Senior Lecturer, Department of Botany, ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

Bethany Kolody prepares water samples aboard the NOAAS Ronald H. Brown, during the P18 GO-SHIP voyage from Easter Island to Antarctica in the Sout ...

Literature has the potential to create conditions and cultures that facilitate important endings and beginnings, such as abolition, such as independence, such as the end of apartheid, the end of ...

Taxonomy articles from across Nature Portfolio Taxonomy is the classification and description of living organisms. It includes the naming and defining of species, and the collation of data about ...

Scientists have identified a new type of protein in bacteria that could change our understanding of how these organisms ...

Closely related bacterial species use different strategies to build their cell walls, an international team of scientists led ...

The dispersion of bacteria moving through porous environments follows an astonishingly simple and universal law. The Earth is populated by swimming microorganisms, such as bacteria, which ...

The Sri Lanka Medical Council, as the sole regulator of medical professionals in Sri Lanka, has played a vital role in shaping the nature, quality, and character of medical professionals and the ...

Like people, bacteria have their preferences when it comes to relationships. Some are totally independent, while others prefer company. Salmonella and many other kinds of bacteria are of the social ...

Mouse droppings can harbor bacteria and viruses that can cause various kinds of sicknesses in humans. Several of these illnesses may be serious or even deadly for some people.