Armed with palm-sized triplet magnifying glasses, these people were on a lichen walk, examining local specimens as part of the University of Minnesota Department of Art’s first-ever Lichen Symposium.

Despite the red planet’s brutality, lichens that inhabit some of the harshest environments on Earth could possibly survive there. Lichens are symbionts, or two organisms that are in a ...

For thousands of years, lichens have quietly shaped Michigan’s landscapes—and their work is far from finished. I’m alone on a 2-billion-year-old basalt cliff among ancient living organisms ...

And, puns aside, there’s a lot to see here, once you take the time. "If you've looked at lichens, you may have seen British soldiers with the red tips. That's a fruticose lichen. That's one that ...

And, puns aside, there’s a lot to see here, once you take the time. "If you've looked at lichens, you may have seen British soldiers with the red tips. That's a fruticose lichen. That's one that ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A comprehensive wiring diagram and functional map of a mouse brain's visual cortex, the largest to date, has been created from a cubic millimeter of tissue. This ...

“It is no use asking for the impossible, such as, say, the exact wiring diagram for a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and the way all its neurons are firing,” Crick wrote in Scientific America ...

Fungi are in the zeitgeist these days thanks to The Last of Us, but anyone expecting any such excitement from the organisms of Lichens Are the Way will be disappointed. The 43-minute film ...

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. The gluing of rare ‘scrambled egg’ lichen to the ground is my kind of conservation, says Norfolk Wildlife Trust reserves officer Robert ...

In Iceland, the answer is mosses and lichens. Thousands of square miles, even beneath a coating of ice and snow during much of the year, are blanketed with thick, dark green mosses. A sprinkling ...

The lesions were present for 7 months. Location: This eruption was on the glans penis. The lesions of lichen planus can occur anywhere on the body but favor the flexor wrists, trunk, medial thighs ...