Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An electron microscope image, colorized, shows different structures of pollen grains, including sunflower, morning glory and ...

The approach combines scanning electron microscopy with a computer vision model and a web-based application to automatically classify pollen grains based on their microscopic surface features. Its ...

Scientists from the Natural History Museum, London (United Kingdom), and the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, Grenoble (France), have found that some pollen has survived mass extinctions thanks, in ...

Scientists at Umeå University have found a way to break open the protective walls of pollen grains – one of the hardest biomaterials in the world – without damaging the inside cell and its components.

Pollen grains are far more than allergens — they are also nature’s time capsules, preserving clues about Earth’s past environments for millions of years. Pollen’s tough outer shell enables it to ...

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 ...