Occurred on January 16, 2022 / Dohr, Germany Info from Licensor: "The invasion of a slime mold on a mushroom: a fascinating ...

Slime molds are a natural marvel; as just a collection of single-celled organisms, they're no more than gelatinous blobs with no neurons and no brain. But somehow, these colonies are able to make ...

Slime molds have baffled scientists since their discovery. The single celled organism seems to possess an intelligence that guides it towards food in a way that almost purposeful, as it creeps across ...

Simon Garnier and the 'SwarmLab' at the New Jersey Institute of Technology deploy time-lapse macrophotography to study the surprisingly complex decision-making of single-celled slime molds. Check out ...

For organisms without brains, slime molds show an impressive array of problem-solving behaviors: they can solve mazes and even figure out the optimal layout for the railway system connecting cities ...

Strange organisms are thriving on the floors of Australia’s wet temperate forests…and they’re a lot smarter than they look. Slime moulds are primitive, single-celled organisms that live mostly in ...

Slime mold in a petri dish. New research finds that slime molds can store memories by changing the diameter of the branching tubes they use to explore their environment, allowing them to keep track of ...

A creepy video that's gotten new life as a GIF shows a slime mold on the hunt. The slime mold, a species called Physarum polycephalum, is not actually a mold at all; it's a single-celled protist.

Snails can hit a top speed of one metre an hour, travelling the length of an average garden in a night, researchers have found. Exeter University scientists also discovered they even move in convoy, ...