Ilex or Holly are some of the best, most robust shrubs and trees for gardeners with cold winters. These high performing, low maintenance shrubs tend to be very deer resistant and able to withstand ...

Moss quietly collects DNA from animals, plants, and microbes, offering a simple way to track biodiversity without harming ...

Old military air samples turned out to be a treasure trove of biological DNA, allowing scientists to track moss spores over ...

Holiday moss is turning out to be more than a rustic backdrop for candles and nativity scenes. By trapping fragments of ...

Can tiny pieces of moss become crime-busters? Yes, according to a new study examining how law enforcement agencies, forensic ...

Right now, many of us have a bit of moss sitting in our Christmas decorations at home. Some of us picked it ourselves in the ...

Researchers in Finland discovered that a mine-grown moss and its microbial partners can remove toxic metals from water ...

New findings shed light on the mechanisms behind a natural purification process and identify the key microbial "teammates" ...

A new study looks at how microscopic plants have been used as evidence in forensic investigations. Tiny plants such as moss are easy to miss. Many are no larger than an eyelash, and they usually grow ...

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.

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 ...

In 2005, scientists announced that moss could grow inside of spaceships. The little plants the scientists sent up on NASA Space Shuttle missions grew in a breathtakingly weird shape, a sort of fuzzy ...