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

Researchers have established the world's largest collection of moss species for the peat industry and science. Peatlands with their huge diversity of peat moss species store about 30 percent of the ...

Learn how scientists found that moss is hiding years of valuable animal and plant DNA, even some from rare species.

Meet Takakia lepidozioides, an inconspicuous yet remarkable moss species that has defied the odds through multiple catastrophic climate events, including the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. This ...

Northern hemisphere moss generally grows on the south side, while southern hemisphere moss generally grows on the north side. Every hiker, camper and bushcrafter knows that moss grows on the north ...

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

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

Bacteria adhering to three unrelated species of wild moss growing in similar or different habitats were isolated on a nonselective medium and tested for their effect on protonemal growth and ...

A study by the Chinese Academy of Sciences identified a super resilient desert moss species, Syntrichia Caninervis, that could help sustain possible colonies on Mars. Even after losing more than 98% ...

Moss has long been treated as background scenery, a green blur on rocks and roofs, yet it is quietly overturning assumptions about how life began on land, how it survives in extremes, and even how ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...