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 ...

There’s more than just pollen riding on a springtime breeze. Just as some human viruses spread when humans reproduce, plant viruses can use pollen to hitch a ride from flower to flower. A study in ...

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.

In a major boost for hay fever and asthma sufferers, Edith Cowan University (ECU) is now home to Western Australia's only ...

If you were a flowering plant, wouldn't you want your pollen to be received by a plant of your own kind? According to a new study, at least one plant may ensure that happens, by blasting "rival" ...

It's only early March, but the pollen floating around the air in the Southern and Eastern US is already eye-watering. In Atlanta, the pollen count climbed to the "extremely high" range on Monday -- ...

Last year, we heard how scientists had created eco-friendly soft gel particles from hard grains of pollen. Now, they've used those particles to create sponges that could soak up oil spills, then ...

A sophisticated new forecasting system has been unveiled to protect Victorians from deadly thunderstorm asthma events during ...

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 ...

Allergy sufferers beware. Pollen counts are setting records in Hamilton County this week. "Yesterday, was the highest number we've seen in the last 20 years. So it was over 9,000 which is in the very ...

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 ...