Tag: Pollen

  • Health

    When pollinator populations are in peril

    New Harvard study finds pollination loss removes healthy foods from global diets, increases chronic diseases causing an estimated 427,000 excess deaths annually.

    2–3 minutes
    Bee collecting pollen.
  • Health

    Thunderstorm asthma

    A new study reports an increase in cases of “thunderstorm asthma,” putting allergy and asthma sufferers on alert.

    2–3 minutes
    Thunderstorm.
  • Health

    Heatwave = heat stroke = ER visit

    Bringing climate change into the examining room by discussing links between a warming environment and the everyday health of patients.

    10–16 minutes
    Renee Salas.
  • Science & Tech

    For this flower, it’s ready, set, launch

    Harvard researchers used high-speed video to not only quantify how fast the filaments in mountain laurel flowers move, but how they target likely pollinators.

    3–4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Making use of the head

    Blue-banded bees bent on pollination bang their heads against tomato plants at a rate of 350 times per second, a Harvard researcher found.

    3–5 minutes
  • Health

    Clues on how flowering plants spread

    Researchers at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum have highlighted female competition among plants, saying it is a new factor that could have driven the mystifying diversity of flowering plants.

    3–5 minutes