Researchers have created advanced humidity sensors with bacterial spores in a suit made of graphene.

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.

Wee spores now offer a renewable source of vroom, researchers report. A previous study found that bacterial spores, which rapidly shrivel in dry conditions and replump with hydration, are packed ...

Infections with C. difficile are a big problem for people in hospitals and nursing homes. An experimental treatment with spores from a harmless version of the bacterium prevented new infections.