Winter has a way of turning small home problems into expensive emergencies, and a “deal with it later” drip is near the top ...

Mold rarely starts where you expect it. You scrub the shower, run the fan, and still end up with a musty smell that seems to ...

A study led by Tomomichi Fujita investigated the survivability of the extremophile moss *Physcomitrium patens* in space, a critical inquiry for establishing extraterrestrial human habitats. Pre-flight ...

A Clostridium botulinum spore is a tough, dormant form of the Clostridium botulinum bacterium that allows it to survive in harsh environmental conditions for long periods. These spores are widespread ...

WTF?! Remember Spore, the PC game that released in 2008 to rave reviews? Last month, just over 17 years since it launched, somebody in the US bought a physical copy of Maxis' genre-blending title. It ...

On 4 March 2022, astronauts locked 20,000 moss spores outside the International Space Station and left them exposed to the rigours of space for 283 days. They then rescued the spores and returned them ...

Mosses thrive in the most extreme environments on Earth, from the peaks of the Himalayas to the sands of Death Valley, the Antarctic tundra to the lava fields of active volcanoes. Inspired by moss's ...

Spore might be one of the highest-profile disappointments in all of PC gaming, but it's also a game I have a huge soft spot for. It was the first game I ever begged my parents to preorder for me (for ...

DURING the investigation of a spore-bearing organism isolated from heated milk, certain morphological changes prior to sporulation were observed. The observations recorded were made upon fixed ...

As shown in an exclusive interview with the show’s creators done by ComicBook, there are a couple of key reasons the spores were replaced with tendrils in The Last of Us HBO series. As it turns out, ...