An electron microscope image, colorized, shows different structures of pollen grains, including sunflower, morning glory and primrose. Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility If pollen allergies are ...

A team of researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute is digitizing images of pollen from more than18,000 plant species from the tropics. These images are being used to train a ...

Pollen from 18,000 tropical plants was digitized in Panama. The images will be used to train a machine-learning model to identify pollen grains, as part of the PollenGEO project Elisabeth King A team ...

For millions of people with seasonal allergies, springtime means runny noses, excessive sneezes and itchy eyes. And, as with many things, climate change appears to be making allergy season even worse.

Smithsonian researcher Ingrid Romero studies fossil pollen to reconstruct ancient climates and predict future changes Erin Wunderlich Researcher Ingrid Romero holds a case full of pollen slides at the ...

For that, we traveled to Atlanta Allergy and Asthma, the site of Atlanta's pollen counts since its conception in the early 1980s. Kim Norwood wakes up and arrives at work each day while many of us are ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Spring is in full swing, and you've likely seen pollen anytime you have gone outside. The last few weeks pollen has accumulated on a wide range of outdoor surfaces, and the Midlands ...

Chemical clues in fossilized pollen grains suggest the world’s greatest mass extinction was a sunny affair, according to a new analysis (Sci. Adv. 2023, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo6102). As the Permian ...

Spring is here — and it’s pollen season again. For a while we’ve been cleaning off the familiar yellow film blanketing our cars, decks and driveways, and we’ve been watching the pollen scum floating ...

Scientists in Singapore have come up with a new type of soft, pliable particle they say can be used as a building blocks for a new generation of green and biocompatible materials, all by using pollen ...