brown — and not all of their common names are as disgusting as the poor old dog vomit variety. In fact, some names sound almost appetizing, especially when it comes to such slime molds as chocolate ...

"Despite being primitive, single-celled organisms, slime moulds exhibit intelligence." 'When fruiting, this species takes on a distinctive pretzel-like shape. It’s mature-phase colour is brown ...

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 ...

They’re slime molds, a hodgepodge of different species across multiple groups, some only distantly related. And despite their name, these blobby creatures are not related to mold but are among ...

For the rest of you, here's a reminder that slime mold once figured out Britain's motorways system by itself. Forgive me for not blogging this sooner. It's one of those transportation facts that ...

The trees stop making the green chemical called chlorophyll that captures the sunlight, and the yellow, brown and red colours ... moving goo is called a slime mould. One sort is called the ...

They are slime molds: gelatinous amoebae that have little to do with the kinds of fungal mold that ruin sourdough and pumpernickel. Biologists currently classify slime molds as protists ...

This is Sarah Lloyd. She is hunting for slime moulds. These tiny organisms are only just visible to the naked eye, so they're best seen under a microscope or through a powerful camera lens.

Could have just asked a slime mold. When presented with oat flakes arranged in the pattern of Japanese cities around Tokyo, brainless, single-celled slime molds construct networks of nutrient ...

Meet the charismatic slime mold Physarum—which can learn, make decisions, and go through mazes without a brain—and the researchers studying it.