Graham Hancock

Whether Earth was deliberately terraformed, in other words, or whether it was seeded with the spores of life from crashed comets or whether, indeed, life arose here spontaneously and accidentally, it is reasonable to hope that we might find traces of the same kind of process on Mars.

British Writer

Paul Stamets

While reishi mushrooms have historically been prepared as teas or infusions, other modern preparations include capsules, tinctures, and fractionated extracts of mushrooms, mycelium, and spores.

American Scientist

Barton Gellman

If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.

American Journalist

A spore has the potential to develop into a complex organism like a plant or mushroom.

Growth Potential

Unlike flowering plants that use seeds, nonflowering plants and fungi mainly rely on spores to reproduce.

Nonflowering Spread

Spores can be spread by wind, water, or animals, reaching different locations for growth.

Spore Dispersal

Spores in the medical context can survive extreme environments and lack of nutrients.

Harsh Conditions

In medicine, spores from some bacteria or fungi can be involved in causing infections.

Infection Relevance

Medical spores are notoriously hard to destroy, which challenges sterilization processes.

Sterilization Challenge

 the anthropic principle, the origin of life. And so I'm going to show you a toy today that I've been working on, that I think of more as kind of a philosophy toy. Playing this toy will bring up philosophical questions in you. The game is "Spore." I've been working on it for several years. It's getting pretty close to finished now.

Will Wright: Spore,...

 The enzymes remanufactured the hydrocarbons into carbohydrates -- fungal sugars. Some of these mushrooms are very happy mushrooms. They're very large. They're showing how much nutrition that they could've obtained. But something else happened, which was an epiphany in my life. They sporulated, the spores attract insects,

6 ways mushrooms can...

 because they're still very active when they have this fungus erupting out of the back side of them they'll fly around and spores will flake off similar to a tipped salt shaker so they're basically flying salt shakers of death flying salt shakers of death reigning zombie destruction upon the insect world

How Cicadas Become...

 the tools to help itself. Scientists have discovered that some bacteria and fungi can produce minerals, including the calcium carbonate found in autogenous healing. Experimental blends of concrete include these bacterial or fungal spores alongside nutrients in their concrete mix,

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 and the fungus parasitizes its body to build a tall, thin stalk from its neck. Within several weeks, the stalk shoots off spores, which turn more ants into six-legged leaf-seeking zombies. One of humanity's most deadly assailants is a behavior-altering parasite,

How parasites change...

 it's thought the drugs released by the fungus into the cicada's brain make it more energetic in finding a mate thus maximizing spore dispersal for the parasitic massospora with over 400 species of cordyceps type fungi spread across the world

This Fungus Turns...

 Household dust also contains substances that blow in from the wider world. Depending on the local geology, finely ground quartz, coal, or volcanic ash might enter the air as atmospheric dust, along with pollen and fungal spores.

What is dust made of? -...

 which contains a world of possibilities. This small slice of air is composed of numerous small particles including pollen, fungal spores, and liquid droplets, alongside trace gases like methane and carbon dioxide.

What’s in the air you...

 An example of an organism or two that happens to be quite immortal would be plant seeds or bacterial spores. These creatures are some of the most immortal life forms on our planet,

Mark Roth: Suspended...

 to bear spores that foreshadowed seeds. Life flourished in swamps.