#pollen

Source: Atlas Obscura In midsummer every year, the souqs of southern Iraqi cities such as Basra and Nasiriyah are tinged with gold, from the dust of khirret, a crunchy candy made from the pollen from an aquatic plant that grows in the country’s southern marshes. This delicately-sweetened,

Author: Emily Conover / Source: Science News 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 physics, scientists report in the Feb. 7 Cell. That

Author: Susan Milius / Source: Science News VANCOUVER — Fields of hemp might become a late-season pollen bonanza for bees. Industrial hemp plants, the no-high varieties of cannabis, are becoming a more familiar sight for American bees as states create pilot programs for legal growing. Neither

The pollen count in the Northeast is out of control right now. It’s ranging from ‘Very High’ to ‘High’ throughout the region, and people with allergies are getting hit harder than they have in recent memory. We can all read a forecast on Weather.com but without seeing the pollen pile up on a car