Whether you want it to keep growing in your yard or want to get rid of moss or lichen, it's important to know whether it's lichen or moss that you're dealing with. Here, we've put together a guide ...

Lichen grow on many kinds of surfaces including trees, soil and rocks. The kinds that land on trees have found a stable surface that has sufficient sunlight, moisture, and minerals to sustain them.

Even though lichens and mosses do not have real roots, they affect the surfaces on which they grow by releasing a variety of organic acids that dissolve the underlying rock minerals, making it ...

A walk in the desert and a curious discovery could have revealed that the secrets of alien life grow in the harshest ...

Some cultures fermented lichens to make alcohol, finding that it took 20 pounds to make a few quarts, which would wipe out lichens in ever-widening areas. Since they are incredibly slow growing, man ...

Imagine printing your Martian home from dust, sunlight, and a bit of biology. A new synthetic lichen system uses fungi and ...

What the lichen growing on Oregon's trees can tell us about air quality. Clip: ... they have little branches and rocks in their pockets that they saved to look at at a later date.

Lichens are nearly everywhere — odd growths that appear as crusty patches and splotches on tree trunks, limbs, rocks, bare soil, stone walls, tombstones, wooden fences. Regardless, lichens often ...

When I was a kid, I learned that rocks became soil. After many years, that was my memory of the process and not much of the details. A while back, I was talking to a friend of mine that is a ...

Where you'll find lichens. Lichens fall into four primary groups according to their body type. They grow on any undisturbed surface: bark, wood, moss, rock, soil, peat, glass, metal, plastic, and ...

Synthetic lichens could transform Martian dust into self-growing habitats for future Mars bases and 3D printed buildings.