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 ...

What can slime molds tell us about the large-scale structure of the universe and the evolution of galaxies? These things might seem incongruous, yet both are part of nature, and Earthly slime molds ...

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 ...

Being compared to a blob-like, single-celled organism in terms of decision-making prowess might sound unflattering at first, but bear with me. Slime molds, unassuming blob-like entities that have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sixteen years ago, a brainless, unicellular organism blew our human minds. And it continues to fascinate and surprise researchers ...

They have no brain, no nervous system, and no limbs – yet slime molds can solve mazes, optimize networks, and adapt to changing environments better than most humans. In this episode, we dive into the ...

Humans are very good at anthropomorphising things. That is, giving them human characteristics, like ourselves. We do it with animals—see just about any cartoon—and we even do it with our own ...

There is nothing wrong with your tree that I can see from looking at the photo. The mass on the ground in the photo looks like dog vomit slime mold that is starting to dry up. Slime molds, of which ...