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Scientists just watched a single cell solve a maze and remember the way — a brainless slime mold that learns where it found food and never forgets
A bright yellow blob with no brain, no neurons, and no central nervous system has done something that sounds impossible: it ...
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 ...
Slime research may not be the sexiest science, but produces some truly wild results. So wild, in fact, a new study reconfigures our understanding of not only animal intelligence, but also the very ...
The winning photo from the 2022 Nikon Small World competition: the hand of a gecko embryo.Grigorii Timin & Dr. Michel Milinkovitch/Nikon Small World The Nikon Small World competition recognizes the ...
Even without a brain, a slime mold can essentially remember where it's been, helping it navigate past complex obstacles, much like modern robots, researchers say. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...
The Paris Zoological Park has added a brand-new blob to their collection. No, it's not a jellyfish. It's not even an animal, really — more like a living pile of old yellow silly string with a powerful ...
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.
Once you’ve seen a slime mold—its gooey, delicately branching structure oozing in a vaguely unsettling way along a log or leaf—you’re unlikely to forget it. They’re unmistakable because there’s ...
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