Chlorine bleach is an effective mold killer for most surfaces. Mold can also be killed with distilled white vinegar, hydrogen ...

Discovering a dark patch in a corner or catching a whiff of a musty scent can be an alarming moment for any homeowner. It ...

Bacteria go to extremes to handle hard times: They hunker down, building a fortress-like shell around their DNA and turning off all signs of life. And yet, when times improve, these dormant spores can ...

The reproductive spores of many species of fungi have evolved remarkably drag-minimizing shapes, according to new research by mycologists and applied mathematicians at Harvard University. In many ...

Humans inhale somewhere between 1,000 and 10 billion mold spores on an average day—let alone on days after catastrophic flooding or a Category 5 hurricane hits, when fungal flare-ups can ensue. Each ...

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 ...

The Last of Us‘ video game fans were expecting to see the Cordyceps fungus spread through spores in the air when season on of the TV series hit our screens. After all, that’s how the virus ...

The Last of Us HBO series will not include spores from the video games. It could be assumed that the series would be making a few changes from the games, but the fact that spores won’t make any ...

Hard-to-kill anthrax spores may explain why the Department of Defense accidentally sent out “live” samples of the bacteria, experts say. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad ...