While mold is generally looked on as the stuff of nightmares or, at best, a minor annoyance, one strain has made waves around the world this year for its amazing feats of intelligence and athleticism.

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Myxomycetes, or slime molds, are fungus-like organisms that have ...

Earthly slime mold models have helped astronomers map the cosmic web that connects galaxies throughout the universe. Slime mold, or Physarum polycephalum, is a single-cell organism that builds complex ...

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 ...

Slime molds are among the world’s strangest organisms. Long mistaken for fungi, they are now classed as a type of amoeba. As single-celled organisms, they have neither neurons nor brains. Yet for ...

A few years ago, Matt came across a curious creature resembling a mushroom. It was red, gross, and spectacular. But when he searched for more information, he discovered it wasn't a fungus. Nor was it ...

Can organisms without brains or neurons learn? You bet. A paper published April 27 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows that one species of slime mold—a primitive organism made up ...

There is something odd growing on my lawn grass. There are small patches where the grass blades turn ashy gray. When I touch it there is a black residue on my fingers. I'm not sure if it is hurting ...

Fuligo septica, shown here on a tree stump, is known as scrambled egg slime or dog vomit slime mold. Source: (c) ibogdan/fotosearch For sure, the COVID-19 illness, if you get it, can be painful, scary ...