The special issue proposes a new environmental history of the sciences manifested in a critical examination of the pasts and futures of collections. It crosses disciplinary boundaries to re-assess the...

How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us.   While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema...

Many plants including cocoa, coffee and avocado cannot be gene-edited but a technique involving grafting could change that, opening the door to more productive and nutritious varieties

A book rich in observations drawn from visits to over eighty museums worldwide, “Ghosts Behind Glass” glimpses at how they present extinction to the public.

General registration is now open for the Planetary Futures conference, which takes place at the University of Manchester on the 18th and 19th of September 2025.

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Since its founding in January 1920, the National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC) has played a fundamental role supporting microbiological research in Britain and globally. NCTC is an international ...

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A computerised ark: The International Species Information System (ISIS) and the laborious re-ordering of the zoo world