There are numerous types of pollen within a variety of species. Various types of pollen were examined with the use of Dynamic Image Analysis, to determine whether their morphology (shape properties) ...

The fit between flower and pollinator is key: Bats pollinate wide flowers better, while hummingbirds transfer more pollen between narrow flowers. Videotaping demonstrated that a poor fit fails to ...

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 ...

Researchers have created magnetic replicas of sunflower pollen grains using a wet chemical, layer-by-layer process that applies highly conformal iron oxide coatings. The replicas possess natural ...

Pollen grains sport a variety of snazzy shapes, from golf ball–like divots to prickly knobs or swirls that evoke a peppermint candy. But these myriad patterns may all be due to one simple trick of ...

Alison Sweeney has long suspected the best blueprints for innovation already exist in nature. They’re encrypted in the iridescence of giant clams. They’re hidden in the eyes of mid-ocean squid.

Get the buzz on pollinators from an entomologist and animal keeper. Donna Stockton Butterflies, like this eastern tiger swallowtail, taste with their feet. Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation ...

Researchers have created magnetic replicas of sunflower pollen grains using a wet chemical, layer-by-layer process that applies highly conformal iron oxide coatings. The replicas possess natural ...