The ingenious way that mushrooms and certain other fungi fire spores into the atmosphere in order to reproduce has been mimicked by a team of engineers and fungal biologists. These organisms disperse ...

When spore-forming bacteria, such as Bacillus or Clostridium, enter a state of starvation, they transform into a state of dormancy in order to survive. No other life form is as difficult to eliminate ...

Like a bear that falls into a deep sleep when winter arrives, bacterial spores can also remain dormant for a long time and then “wake up” to function with an extraordinary genetic memory system. A new ...

Lead researcher Philippe Marmottant describes the strange walk and jump of the microscopic plant spores Researchers in France have discovered a strange new type of movement in plants - tiny spores ...

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Researchers in France have discovered a strange new type of movement in plants - tiny spores that walk and jump. The researchers used high speed cameras to find out how horsetail (Equisetum) spores ...