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 ...

Do you get slimy patches of something resembling dog vomit growing in your yard after heavy rain? Here's what it is and what ...

The yellow slime mold Physarum polycephalum exploring a petri dish. Slime deposits to the left of the image tell the slime mold where it has previously explored. Photo by: Audrey Dussutour. How do you ...

“I found an odd-looking substance in my mulched beds next to a boxwood last week. This garden bed was replanted a few weeks ago and mulched with shredded bark. At first, I thought my dog had been sick ...

It may seem a stretch to lay higher life’s most essential mental faculty at the feet, figuratively speaking, of an amoeboid that’s not even an animal. Yet though they have but a single cell, slime ...

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 ...

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Most of the time when we hear about AI, they're taking our jobs or putting us in jail or inflicting some other autonomic horror upon humans. But there's a second side to that AI coin. One in which ...

Let’s hear it for slime molds. Researchers in Japan have shown that a slime mold can design a network that is as efficient as one developed by humans over many years: the Tokyo rail system.

Occurred on January 16, 2022 / Dohr, Germany Info from Licensor: "The invasion of a slime mold on a mushroom: a fascinating ...

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In 1996, the folks at Bandai presented the world with one of their most beloved and nostalgia-inducing creations: the Tamagotchi. If you were a kid in the ‘90s it’s incredibly likely you had a ...