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 ...

Jonathon Keats likes hanging out with slime mould. The American experimental philosopher has spent much of the past year investigating some of the most pressing issues facing our planet – from climate ...

British computer scientists are taking inspiration from slime to help them find ways to calculate the shape of a polygon linking points on a surface. Such calculations are fundamental to creating ...