Imagine a creature that can solve puzzles without thinking, remember paths without neurons, and learn from experience without ...

These are slime molds, or myxomycetes (myxos), of the kingdom Protoctista, the least understood of the five kingdoms of life, the others being animals, plants, fungi and bacteria (Smithsonian ...

Your cleaning schedule is on track, yet icky slime, in shades of pink, still lurks in your shower. What is it—pink mold, ...

Slime molds have lived on Earth since long before the emergence of the human species. As single-celled organisms, slime molds do not have brains or nerves. And yet, they have ways of processing ...

Slime-mold amoebae are free-living microorganisms that periodically gather together to form macroscopic fruiting bodies. It now seems several that secreted gases play several important roles in ...

Aggregation in slime molds has long fascinated scientists who study the origins of multicellularity—that is, how our single-celled ancestors came together to form tissues, eventually enabling the ...

A form of spatial memory helps a brainless slime mold navigate complex environments, hinting at the possible origins of memory in higher organisms. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with ...

Slime molds, unassuming blob-like entities that have spent hundreds of millions of years on our planet, defy everything we think we know about intelligence and curiosity. These single-celled ...

"You have the potential for growth, so you have to maintain cleanliness." How to prevent slime and mold buildup in ice machines? Preventing the buildup of biofilms and mold in ice machines comes ...

Inspired by the behavior of slime mold (Physarum polycephalum), which demonstrates intelligence through physical and chemical interactions, this project focuses on creating small robots capable of ...