pollen
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AI software can identify each open blossom and direct a robotic arm — or a worker — to release pollen with the precision needed to avoid deformed fruit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
The new pollen evidence suggests that some of its coatings may also have been applied in that area.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Because pitch is naturally sticky, it can capture pollen from nearby vegetation and preserve it for long periods.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
To explore this nutritional mismatch, researchers compared the essential amino acid composition of honeybee tissues with pollen collected from 99 UK flowering plant species representing 26 plant families.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
There were gnats at the mouth, little flecks of pollen drifting above the nose.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
They also produced artificial foods designed to mimic either the amino acid composition of different pollens or the composition of honeybee tissues.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
It is estimated that 13 million people in the UK suffer from hay fever - an allergy to different pollens.
From BBC ● May 30, 2025
“We’ve now got three different dating techniques—radiocarbon dating of the seeds, radiocarbon dating of the pollens and luminescence dating of the quartz—that all show people were there.”
From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 2023
Climate scientists at the University of Michigan looked at 15 different plant pollens in the United States and used computer simulations to calculate how much worse allergy season will likely get by the year 2100.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2022
Even before Kirtland and Bridgewater pollens were available those trees, grafted to the Weschcke, bore hickory nuts every year, but in very small quantities.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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Life Science: Plants
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Plants (Botany) - Introduction
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Plants (Botany) - Middle School
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