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 ...
Despite lacking brains or nervous systems, slime molds are capable of making surprisingly sophisticated decisions: navigating ...
Physarum polycephalum. (Audrey Dussutour/CNRS) Slime molds are slippery, nebulous beings. They're not true molds. They're not ...
Slime molds are among the world’s strangest organisms. Long mistaken for fungi, they are now classed as a type of amoeba. As single-celled organisms, they have neither neurons nor brains. Yet for ...
In this video, we attempt to revive two-year-old dried slime that has become rubbery and unattractive. Our aim is to ...