Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working ...

If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...

More than 150 million specimens that belong to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History are housed at a support ...

I've visited the Field Museum for 21 years and finally got to tour one of its hidden collections. Researchers preserve and store 11 million wet specimens in the basement. Here are some of the most ...

Conservationist and photographer Scott Trageser has developed a 3D scanning system that could potentially reshape how animals are studied in the wild. The system uses an array of cameras that work in ...

A specimen from a rarely seen bat species, called a spotted bat, that was collected in the McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area has been added to the Colorado State University’s biology teaching ...

Recommendations for specimen collection and handling have been developed for adoption across breast cancer clinical trials conducted by the Breast International Group (BIG)-sponsored Groups and the ...

A century of plant species discoveries in China reveals a hidden bias that could affect global plant conservation.

Providers in the United States may now order the FDA-cleared HPV self-collection solution for their patients to use in their offices or other healthcare settings, with goal to reduce barriers to ...

University Medical Devices (UMD) closed a $1.6M round of seed funding led by Bright Minds Capital Partners, with participation from Invest Nebraska, AV Legacy Holdings, LLC and UMD executives. The ...