What a brainless slime mold can teach us about decision-making, intellectual curiosity, and thriving in an uncertain world.

As the researchers observed the slime mold’s tendrils, they noticed similarities to how fungi grow and explore, suggesting that the two share an evolutionary mechanism. Some scientists had ...

This is Sarah Lloyd. She is hunting for slime moulds. These tiny organisms are only just visible to the naked eye, so they're best seen under a microscope or through a powerful camera lens.

You can learn a lot from a little slime mold. For Nate Cira, assistant professor of biomedical engineering in Cornell Engineering, the tiny eukaryotic organism provided inspiration for modeling ...

Type specimen of the slime mould Badhimia foliicola. Collected by Arthur Lister, together with his daughter Guillerma. Arthur Lister is the author of the book: A monograph of the Mycetozoa: a ...

“Because slime molds are totally other, it means that they can potentially serve as outsiders, where they don’t have any inherent human biases, and we can all come around to observing their behavior ...

This is the third and slimiest member of our leaf demolition squad. This yellow moving goo is called a slime mould. One sort is called the scrambled egg slime mould, and another the dog's vomit.

Slime-mold amoebae are free-living microorganisms that periodically gather together to form macroscopic fruiting bodies. It now seems several that secreted gases play several important roles in ...

Inspired by how brainless lifeforms such as starfish and slime moulds move around, physicists at the University of Amsterdam ...

“If you do notice pink mould in your bathroom then give it a good clean by using a solution made up of water and white ...

In deep regional Queensland, a retired commercial photographer is finding new life in macrophotography, focusing on ancient ...