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 ...

SEATTLE – For Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax, nothing beats the inside of a warm human or animal host for triggering an intense spurt of rapid growth and reproductive activity.

Floating above your head, invisible to the eye, are billions of fungi spores drifting around on the wind. In fact, it’s estimated that at any one time, there are probably millions of tons of them ...