Throwing dust, or the tiny dustlike spores produced by the moss, any meaningful distance is hard. A lot of punch just leads to poof. Yet the round capsules of sphagnum moss blow their lids and ...

A paper in Thursday's Science indicates that the moss has evolved an explosive spore release that uses a phenomenon called a vortex ring to ensure that its offspring are spread far and wide.

They are the means by which peat mosses disperse their spores. There are over 285 species of peat moss, all belonging ... 250,000 spores loaded into a round capsule at its tip.

A primitive, bog-dwelling moss isn't as simple ... The plant's reproductive capsules start out about the size and shape of a very small peppercorn, packed with spores and air.

Keep scrolling to browse the 20 best microscope images of 2015 ... showing a glioblastoma tumor (yellow/green) Spore capsule of a moss Juvenile starfish Nerves and blood vessels in a mouse's ...

For more than a century, scientists have known that moss grows small, high-pressure capsules that explode to propel the spores upward. But the spores are so small that air resistance stops their ...

Sphagnum moss uses the power of vortices ... for more than a century that sphagnum mosses have exploding capsules that shoot spores centimetres into the air, the physics never made sense.

No, it's a picture of tiny moss capsules by Martin Oeggerli. Using a highly sophisticated microscope ... open after a dry period to release their spores. “I tried to design the picture such ...

Moss clumps, then, may contain two types of plants at the same time. Eventually, the spore capsules dry out and release their contents. Spores that land on moist sites will germinate and grow into ...

Sphagnum moss uses the power of vortices ... for more than a century that sphagnum mosses have exploding capsules that shoot spores centimetres into the air, the physics never made sense.