NEW YORK — A single-celled, amoebalike creature called a slime mold is capable of navigating through a maze to food, despite lacking a brain. The slime mold leaves behind a trail of goo as it oozes ...

Slime mold, often called Dog's vomit slime mold, not a fungus but an amoeba-like organism that engulfs bacteria and other prey with its pseudopods. Getty Images Were you stuck in a jam on the way to ...

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Sloomoo Institute Atlanta is exploring the weird and wonderful world of slime mold through its latest exhibit, "LooMoosh's Magnificent Mold." Slime molds are primitive organisms often found in damp ...

Not a day goes by that I do not think of the wonder and almost spiritual brilliance of mushrooms and other fungi, because I am an ant and an invasive fungus has taken control of my brain. For the rest ...

A slime mold algorithm helped map the universe's cosmic web. This algorithm mimics how slime molds find food, connecting galaxies like "food sources." The map reveals how galaxies connect within the ...

Slime molds can find food in a maze and react to stimuli like light. In some, the many individual cells can exist independently and signal each other at the right time to come together and behave like ...