Pollen morphology offers critical insights into plant taxonomy by deciphering the intricacies of pollen grain structure. The shape, size, and surface ornamentation of pollen – features underpinned by ...

A team of researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute is digitizing images of pollen from more than 18,000 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 ...

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 ...

When millions of minuscule pollen grains invade Richmond, we see the yellow powder covering cars and swirling down the sidewalks after rain. Under Becky Collie’s microscope at Allergy Partners of ...

Think science is dull and gray? Take a look at what can be seen under the microscope in the photographs of the 50th annual Nikon Small World contest, and you’ll get a sense of how amazing everything ...