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 ...

Researchers capture microscopic fungal feat with high-tech cameras. Sept. 22, 2008 — -- Imagine launching an astronaut into space at 5,000 times the speed of sound. That's the acceleration at ...

Many fungi, including the destructive Sclerotinia, spew thousands of spores at once to give the spores an extra boost into their host plants. Researchers now show how this works. The near-simultaneous ...

Microscopic coprophilous (dung-loving fungi) make our planet habitable by degrading the billions of tons of feces produced by herbivores. But the fungi have a problem: survival depends upon the ...

Go for launch. Some fungi shoot out their spores at surprisingly high speed in order to disperse them some way away, but exactly how they accomplish this has remained a mystery until now. “Spore ...

As you read this, forceful explosions are rocking the planet, covering it in mushroom clouds. Thankfully, nuclear winter isn’t going to befall us quite yet. These explosions are caused by biological ...

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 ...