Anyone who has been to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, or any other botanical garden, will know it is a beautiful place to wander around at any time of year. Radio 4's new 25-part series Plants: ...

Kathy Willis explores how DNA fingerprinting uncovered a new way to classify plants and an evolutionary tree of life. From 2014. Show more The new science of DNA sequencing during the 1990's would not ...

This is the 300th anniversary of the man who revolutionized our understanding of botany. Carl Linneaus was the Swedish scientist who invented the modern classification of plants and animals, according ...

Every day, new species discoveries make big headlines in the news, but scientists are also realizing just how many “undiscovered” species are hiding in plain sight. These species lie buried within ...

The relief of just being able to attach a name to a plant is probably enough for most gardeners, but botanists - and many keen gardeners, too - are interested in how plants fit together into a ...

THINK about what it takes to learn biology. Not textbook biology, the kind you learn in high school with microscopes and dissecting kits. Rather the kind you learn on your own, as a young child ...