Bacterial cells shut down and become spores to survive harsh environments. An internal countdown signals when it’s safe for bacteria to revive.

The Last of Us season two brings the return of spores to the franchise. Spores existed in the games but had not yet come to the series.

We inhale up to 10 billion mold spores daily; here’s why you haven’t died yet Hint: It’s not because our immune systems carry out mass fungi-cide.

Do sleeping spores dream of electric sheep?Sometimes procrastination pays off. When their environment gets too stressful, many bacteria stuff some of their innards into ultratough packets called ...

The Last of Us Season 2 showrunners Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin have confirmed “spores are back” following their omission from Season 1.

The Pentagon's disclosure about anthrax deliveries begs the question why the Department of Defense lab technicians' gamma rays didn't kill the spores.

The orange goo that took over the shore of a remote Alaskan village is actually a mass of fungal spores — not microscopic eggs, as scientists at the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration ...

Season 1 ditched spores, but Season 2 brings them back as a way for the outbreak to spread.

Turn Up the Heat: Bacterial Spores Can Take Temperatures in the Hundreds of Degrees New research makes panspermia—the spreading of life from one planet to another—more likely.