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 ...

Slime molds may not have brains, but that isn't preventing some computer scientists from investigating them for their potential as novel, unconventional computers. A slime mold consists of a single ...

The yellow slime mold Physarum polycephalum exploring a petri dish. Slime deposits to the left of the image tell the slime mold where it has previously explored. Photo by: Audrey Dussutour. How do you ...

I probably shouldn’t get quite so excited about the life I find in my wood pile. I was all set to write about baby turtles this week when, while neatening up the debris from last year’s wood pile, I ...

Slime mold has one of the worst public images of any single-celled organism. For one thing, the Physarum polycephalum, as it's scientifically called, has a gross nickname evoking a drippy texture and ...

Watch Slime Mold Smarts on PBS. See more from NOVA scienceNOW. Gardeners sometime encounter them in their backyards—spongy yellow masses squatting in the dirt or slowly swallowing wood chips. Hikers ...

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Smarty-pants slime molds can solve mazes and produce diagrams similar to the Tokyo rail system—and now, scientists suggest, they may also be able to help treat cancer. Biophysicists in Germany and ...

A computational approach inspired by the growth patterns of a bright yellow slime mold has enabled a team of astronomers and computer scientists at UC Santa Cruz to trace the filaments of the cosmic ...

“I found an odd-looking substance in my mulched beds next to a boxwood last week. This garden bed was replanted a few weeks ago and mulched with shredded bark. At first, I thought my dog had been sick ...