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 ...

Can you identify this nasty yellow stuff that is growing on the base of my Japanese yew and on the mulch in the garden? How do I prevent this from growing? Kim Minor This rather gross-looking mass is ...

A computational approach inspired by the growth patterns of a bright yellow slime mold has enabled a team of astronomers and computer scientists at UC Santa Cruz to trace the filaments of the cosmic ...

Home gardeners are often distressed by the appearance of slime molds during extended periods of overcast, warm and wet weather, which is common in Louisiana, according to the LSU AgCenter. LSU ...

That isn’t scrambled eggs pulsating on a tree in a national park in Alaska — but it does look like it. Screenshot from Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve video on Facebook If you’re hiking in a ...

The behavior of one of nature's humblest creatures is helping astronomers probe the largest structures in the universe. The single-cell organism, known as slime mold (Physarum polycephalum), builds ...

A computational approach inspired by the growth patterns of a bright yellow slime mold has enabled a team of astronomers and computer scientists to trace the filaments of the cosmic web that connects ...

I was on my regular Duluth dog walk last week when I spotted this in a neighbor’s mulch. I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure this is a slime mold – specifically, “dog vomit” slime mold: Fuligo septica.

Astronomers have gotten creative in trying to trace the elusive cosmic web, the large-scale backbone of the cosmos. Researchers turned to slime mold, a single-cell organism found on Earth, to help ...

Diemut Strebe, an artist who’s worked at MIT since 2010, recently in an MIT residency program, has a lot to say about the United States’ failure to contain or even meaningfully slow down the ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...