Taxonomy needs more than just taxonomists. In some ways they have the easy job: they get to go to exotic places collecting specimens,...

Tom May is really into the small but important things in life. Fungi. His career as one of the world's pre-eminent mycologists, though,...

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, botany was often regarded as a pursuit that was 'suitable' for women, in an era when most...

Steve Wylie studies the smallest, strangest, most mind-bending organisms of all time - viruses. Everyone knows that viruses cause the...