What is slime mold and what should you do about it? originally appeared on Dengarden. If you’ve recently made the (mildly horrifying) discovery of a slimy growth in your mulch that looks like ...

This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. Enter The Blob—a yellowish chunk of slime mold set to make its debut at the Paris Zoological Park on Saturday. With nearly 720 sexes, and the ability to ...

Even without a brain, a slime mold can essentially remember where it's been, helping it navigate past complex obstacles, much like modern robots, researchers say. These findings reveal how ancient ...

Once you’ve seen a slime mold—its gooey, delicately branching structure oozing in a vaguely unsettling way along a log or leaf—you’re unlikely to forget it. They’re unmistakable because there’s ...

Physarum polycephalum is a complex single-cell organism that has no nervous system. It can learn and transfer its knowledge to its fellow slime moulds via fusion. How it did so was a mystery.

Slime research may not be the sexiest science, but produces some truly wild results. So wild, in fact, a new study reconfigures our understanding of not only animal intelligence, but also the very ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Myxomycetes, or slime molds, are fungus-like organisms that have ...

I was on my regular Duluth dog walk last week when I spotted this in a neighbor’s mulch. I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure this is a slime mold – specifically, “dog vomit” slime mold: Fuligo septica.

Anyone who has hiked in the Northwest has seen a slime mold, but likely didn’t know it. Some appear like tiny balls of fungus on rotting logs, or strange patches of gooey orange globs. Some look like ...

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