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 ...

Mireta’s software taps into slime mold’s natural ability for urban planning. In a classic experiment more than a decade ago, ...

The Slime Mold Torch is a lighting tool that provides an limited amount of light when used. It requires collecting some Slime Mold Stalks and Plant Fiber to craft. A torch-like stalk from a cluster of ...

An artist captures the electricity activity of a slime mold and converts it to music. If it starts a band with other slime molds, they better call themselves the Slime Mold Beatles. CNET freelancer ...

This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. Enter The Blob—a yellowish chunk of slime mold set to make its debut at the Paris Zoological Park on Saturday. With nearly 720 sexes, and the ability to ...

Despite not having brains, slime molds are able to remember where they’ve been. They avoid oozing back over paths that didn’t lead them to food by detecting “memories” in the trails of slime they ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Most ...

Watch Slime Mold Smarts on PBS. See more from NOVA scienceNOW. Gardeners sometime encounter them in their backyards—spongy yellow masses squatting in the dirt or slowly swallowing wood chips. Hikers ...

Slime molds may not have brains, but that isn't preventing some computer scientists from investigating them for their potential as novel, unconventional computers. A slime mold consists of a single ...

The yellow slime mold Physarum polycephalum exploring a petri dish. Slime deposits to the left of the image tell the slime mold where it has previously explored. Photo by: Audrey Dussutour. How do you ...

In 2016, CNRS scientists demonstrated that the slime mold Physarum polycephalum, a single-cell organism without a nervous system, could learn to no longer fear a harmless but aversive substance and ...