Pollen study reveals the hidden history of grasses

Researchers combined super-resolution microscopy and machine learning to analyze fossil grass pollen. The model detects subtle surface patterns to separate C3 and C4 grasses and estimate species diversity over thousands of years. This method gives scientists a faster way to reconstruct ancient grassland histories from sediment cores.

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