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 mould algorithms (SMAs) are population-based metaheuristic methods inspired by the foraging behaviour of the Physarum polycephalum, a true slime mould known for its ability to form efficient ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...