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 ...

Starting in Beijing, the slime mold Physarum polycephalum developed a well-organized network for global domination that mimicked historic trade routes like Asia’s Silk Road. The work, carried out by ...

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 ...

A slime mold algorithm helped map the universe's cosmic web. This algorithm mimics how slime molds find food, connecting galaxies like "food sources." The map reveals how galaxies connect within the ...

100 million-year-old amber piece with lizard leg and mycomycete. Alexander Schmidt, University of Researchers have discovered a 100-million-year-old slime mold and a lizard leg perfectly preserved in ...

In HBO’s post-apocalyptic drama The Last of Us, human civilisation has fallen in the face of a fungal takeover triggered by climate change. The show’s opening credits and creature designs are inspired ...

Slime molds are delightfully odd creatures. Though they look like the fungi that spreads over old bread and fallen logs, they aren’t molds at all. They’re amoebae, and their oozing, often colorful, ...

Single celled organisms are not famed for their intelligence – but a new study suggests that, even without a brain, slime mould can actually "learn". In a study published in *Proceedings of the Royal ...

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