Scientists have long known that certain fungi can pressurize the fluid in their cells and use that ability to shoot spores as far out as possible. Some researchers have photographed the process, but ...

Old military air samples turned out to be a treasure trove of biological DNA, allowing scientists to track moss spores over ...

Anyone who’s ever done a bit of gardening or hiking is probably aware of sphagnum moss—it’s estimated to cover about one percent of the Earth’s surface, and is harvested for use as a potting material.

Patricia Wallace, one of the people behind a Web site that connects, informs, and helps mentor gifted math and science students, sees the online resource as a way to nurture this country's next ...

Bacterial spores store information about the individual growth history of their progenitor cells, thus retaining a "memory" that links the different stages of the bacterial life cycle. The spore ...

An online project that puts access to an extremely powerful electron microscope into the hands of students all over the country has been selected by the journal Science to win the Science Prize for ...

When Ken Hess was in ninth grade, he was lucky. His teacher wanted him to do a science project, and he knew exactly what it would be. He talked his dentist into letting him come to the dental office ...

The master chemists known as Streptomyces bacteria have turned a compound rich with the tangy odor of moist soil into a hitchhiking scam. This group of bacteria, the inspiration for streptomycin and ...

Thanks to Palerider for the word that Popular Science has a huge interview with Will Wright about Spore. How do you think the audience for Spore may be different from your other games? I think we're ...

Computer gamers around the world have been eagerly exploring the new game Spore, recently released by the team that created other hits including The Sims. In the new game, players watch life develop ...

To be crowned as "the fastest thing alive" has been a title long sought after by competitors across our planet. No, not the fastest man alive nor the fastest mammal alive - the fastest thing alive.