The ongoing streamlining of the EU’s corporate sustainability reporting regime as part of the European Commission’s (EC) “Omnibus Simplification Package” has resulted in a plethora of publications ...

Taxonomy is the classification and description of living organisms. It includes the naming and defining of species, and the collation of data about their biology and biogeography. Discovery of a ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Across a Swiss meadow and into its forested edges, the drone dragged a jumbo-size cotton swab from a 13-foot tether. Along its path, the moistened swab collected ...

The green taxonomy, a pilot national classifier, has been approved in the Kyrgyz Republic. This step will make it possible to put into effect a national tool for identifying sustainable projects and ...

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This Genome Watch highlights the advantages and limitations of k-mer approaches versus standard alignment-based methods for analysing metagenomic data, assisting microbial species identification, ...

If you’ve ever picked up a shark’s tooth on the beach or seen a prehistoric creature’s skull on display at a natural history museum, you may have noticed one characteristic that all these fossilized ...

When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the piece of history? It’s not as simple as you may think. To discover more about jaw-dropping finds–like the ...

Beneath what is now a Lowe’s parking lot just off Route 55 in Mantua Township, New Jersey, lies a remarkable fossil site, soon to be the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum. The site sits atop a layer of ...

Just off Route 55 in New Jersey, behind the familiar glow of a Lowe’s parking lot, paleontologists have been pulling fossil bones from the dirt that date back over 66 million years—and not just any ...

Imagine Europe tens of thousands of years ago: dense forests, large herds of elephants, bison and aurochs—and small groups of people armed with fire and spears. A new study shows that these people ...