These images, captured by photographer Barry Webb, provide a close-up view of single-celled slime mould organisms. A view ...

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 ...

THOUGH they may resemble something from another planet, these strange, mushroom-like structures are in fact the reproductive phase of Physarum album, a slime mould species that feeds on bacteria on ...

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 ...

Even slime moulds have ‘brains’: a series of tubes that expand and contract to provide a memory of where food is located. Slime moulds (Physarum polycephalum) are single-celled organisms that can ...

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 ...

The amoeba form of a slime mould can be engineered to produce a range of natural, medically useful compounds, including several that are used to treat nerve damage and pain 1. By contrast, the slime ...

Once you’ve seen a slime mold—its gooey, delicately branching structure oozing in a vaguely unsettling way along a log or leaf—you’re unlikely to forget it. They’re unmistakable because there’s ...

A SLIMY road planner has rearranged the UK’s motorway network – and all in exchange for a hearty meal. A corrupt politician at work? No, it’s Physarum polycephalum, a yellow slime mould normally found ...

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 ...

Can you have a memory if you don't have a brain? The question has been answered with the discovery that brainless slime moulds use excreted chemicals as a memory system. The finding by University of ...

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