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 ...

Pollen not only plays a role in allergies, but also influences the local weather. Especially in spring, when large amounts are released, it contributes to the formation of ice in clouds, which can ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The model was trained with 6,404 images of 29 pollen species. There was 96% correlation in identifying pollen ...

Storms don’t wash pollen away—they burst it into tiny pieces. Here's how it can lead to "thunderstorm asthma." A rural road in Kansas leads toward a storm. Thunderstorms make pollen worse as high ...