This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Meet the amazing slime mold. It is not an ...

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Myxomycetes, or slime molds, are fungus-like organisms that have ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. While mold is generally looked on as the stuff of nightmares or, at best, a minor annoyance, one strain has made waves ...

In HBO's post-apocalyptic drama "The Last of Us," human civilization has fallen in the face of a fungal takeover triggered by climate change. The show's opening credits and creature designs are ...

Q. Every year about this time master gardeners start getting questions, like, “What’s the stuff that looks like dog vomit all over my lawn,” or “What is this patch of gel filled marbles on my mulch,” ...

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 ...

Can organisms without brains or neurons learn? You bet. A paper published April 27 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows that one species of slime mold—a primitive organism made up ...

The humble unicellular slime mold's amazing ability to learn and impart learning even with no brain has been highlighted in a new study. The organism Physarum polycephalum is no plant, animal, or a ...

You don’t need a brain to learn something new – not if you’re a slime mold, anyway. Scientists who watched Physarum polycephalum search for food found that the slime mold could learn to ignore certain ...

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