How tiny pollen grains helped solve a brutal murder: The fascinating science behind nature's invisible crime scene evidence

Tiny pollen grains offer vital clues for investigators solving complex criminal cases. Forensic palynologists analyze these ...
Yahoo

Ancient pollen reveals stories about Earth’s history, from the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs to the Mayan collapse

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 ...
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Fossilized pollen provides a glimpse of Earth’s broiling past

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 ...
Phys.org

Fossilized pollen may reveal 'fingerprints' of environmental stress

It's around this time every year that we start to remember the existence of pollen, the microscopic reproductive cells of cone-bearing and flowering plants. Airborne pollen may induce annoying ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Meet the Scientist Digitizing Millions of Fossilized Pollen Grains to Reveal Earth’s Climate History

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 ...
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Developing an AI-based framework for automated classification of pollen grain images, with applications in agriculture, medicine, and biodiversity monitoring

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 ...