Lichen nitidus is a rare skin condition that causes clusters of bumps on the skin. The bumps appear spontaneously, without an obvious cause. It is not contagious. ‌ The clusters of bumps can show up ...

“You didn’t ask us the question everyone asks,” said Erin Manzitto-Tripp. “What do lichen do?” Manzitto-Tripp is an associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of ...

Manzitto-Tripp is an associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She’s also the curator of botany at the school’s Museum of Natural ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Vulvar lichen sclerosus is likely underdiagnosed in older women, increasing their risk for cutaneous squamous ...

A study of 2.5 million women aged 65 years or older found a 0.7% prevalence of vulvar lichen sclerosus (VLS), and those with VLS had an 11-fold higher risk of developing vulvar squamous cell carcinoma ...

Most sexually reproducing species have an even chromosome copy number, but the dog rose does not. What explains its unusual pattern of chromosome inheritance? Joiselle B. Fernandes is in the ...

Lichen from the Mojave Desert has stunned scientists by surviving months of lethal UVC radiation, suggesting life could exist on distant planets orbiting volatile stars. The secret? A microscopic ...

If you were walking down the brick path between the Regis Center for Art and the Barbara Barker Center for Dance on Thursday afternoon, you may have seen about 30 people crouched near the rain-soaked ...

On a brisk Saturday morning at Bradbury Mountain State Park in Pownal, Maine, Park Ranger Jeff Pengel leads a nature walk he’s titled ‘EnLichenment’. And, puns aside, there’s a lot to see here, once ...

Often mistaken for moss, lichens are actually quite different. Like mosses, lichens are found all over the world, with somewhere between 12-18,000 known varieties. The number is probably way more, as ...

Most planetary scientists agree that Mars’ extreme conditions would be uninhabitable to life as we know it. New research, however, suggests that we might be underestimating the hardiness of lichens.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to begin shutting down the U.S. Department of Education, a move that could radically reshape how schools are funded and regulated across the ...