Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences kept busy throughout 2025. Along with collaborators from across the globe, ...

Invasive plants are no joke! Many of having invasive plants growing in our yards and in our gardens. But what makes an ...

Susanne Sterbing, assistant research professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins ...

New forensic research reveals that fragments of moss as small as an eyelash can serve as a powerful tool in solving crimes.

Moss is ancient. It evolved some 470 million years ago, long before the first dinosaur hatched. It is so rudimentary that it ...

The earliest case the team found was from 1929, when the growth rate of mosses on a decomposing skeleton helped investigators ...

Matt von Konrat, Head of Botanical Collections at the Field Museum in Chicago and corresponding author of the paper, ...

Moss may look insignificant, but it can carry a hidden forensic fingerprint. Because different moss species thrive in very ...

Most outdoor gardening activities have now come to a halt for the winter in Greater Columbus. There just isn’t a lot of gardening to be done right now unless you are tending to some cool-season ...

Air carries more than dust and pollen – it carries a biological archive. For decades, tiny moss spores drifted across northern skies, quietly capturing how seasons shifted as the climate warmed.

Moss spores survived in outer space for a majority of 2022, and could even reproduce as usual when they were eventually returned to Earth, according to a new study from researchers who say their ...

For nine months in 2022, moss lived in space. It wasn’t in a lab aboard the International Space Station, like other gardening experiments conducted in orbit — rather, the moss was attached to the ...