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 ...

THOUGH they may resemble something from another planet, these strange, mushroom-like structures are in fact the reproductive phase of Physarum album, a slime mould species that feeds on bacteria on ...

Even slime moulds have ‘brains’: a series of tubes that expand and contract to provide a memory of where food is located. Slime moulds (Physarum polycephalum) are single-celled organisms that can ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American As part of my series of interviews with ...

Picture a one celled creature navigating a complex maze quicker than some of the planet’s most powerful computers. It’s science fiction, but this is precisely the genius of a slime mold. Those stupid ...

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 ...

Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the wonders of the universe as she is. When she's not daydreaming about flying through space, she's daydreaming ...

Sticky trails of sugar and protein secreted by slime moulds help the single-celled organisms to find their way, by marking where they have previously travelled. Christopher Reid at the University of ...

A SLIMY road planner has rearranged the UK’s motorway network – and all in exchange for a hearty meal. A corrupt politician at work? No, it’s Physarum polycephalum, a yellow slime mould normally found ...

Can you have a memory if you don't have a brain? The question has been answered with the discovery that brainless slime moulds use excreted chemicals as a memory system. The finding by University of ...