A recently defended master's thesis shows that pollen allergy season now begins earlier than it did in the 1990s. At the same ...

This effort involved manually collecting pollen grains from the museum’s herbarium, placing hundreds of pollen grains — as many as 400 — on a slide and then snapping a photo under the ...

Pollen grains are found on flowers’ stamens and are the male sex cells. They are hugely diverse, come in a variety of shapes, sizes and textures, and have a protective sporopollenin outer layer ...

The Dallas Cowboys are used to being under a microscope. Every move they make gets criticized since they are the most visible team in the NFL. Throw in the fact that they haven't won a Super Bowl ...

RICHMOND, Va. — In a significant advancement for local allergy care, the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU has been officially certified as Virginia's first pollen counting station by the ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The first pollen counting station within Central Virginia has been established at Children’s Hospital of Richmond (CHoR) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).

But it was not until the late 19th century that pollen was identified as the agent provocateur by British physician Charles H. Blackley. He suffered a sneezing fit one day when a passing carriage ...

While each plant only lives for one season, one plant can produce up to 1 billion pollen grains, which can be carried far by the wind, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Pollen counts are collected daily by Atlanta Allergy & Asthma. They collect data for 24 hours, and later examine the pollen grains under a microscope to 'count' the pollen.

Magathi enjoys magnifying pollen grains. "They look like powder, but under the Foldscope, you can see all these amazing shapes — and they're split into what looks like tiny rooms," she says.

Magathi enjoys magnifying pollen grains. “They look like powder, but under the Foldscope, you can see all these amazing shapes — and they’re split into what looks like tiny rooms,” she says.