It may look a bit like dog sick, but slime mould is a strange cross between an animal and a fungus that feeds on dead grass or leaves TAKE a walk in the garden or woods in early summer or autumn and ...

Scientists are battling over whether supposedly simple organisms should be considered ‘intelligent’. The outcome could reshape our understanding of the natural world – and our own place within it ...

A bright yellow blob with no brain, no neurons, and no central nervous system has done something that sounds impossible: it solved a maze, then kept a physical record of where it found food. The ...

Pity the poor slime mold. As if that name itself wasn’t bad enough, some species have even worse monikers, like dog vomit or scrambled egg slime. And despite the fact that they come in many striking ...

A garish yellow slime that grows on rotten leaves and logs could one day form the brains behind living computers. The feeding fronds of the slime mould Physarum polycephalum turn out to have memory ...

If a patch of your lawn has been coated overnight in something that looks like grey ash, yellow scrambled egg, or a frothy beige crust climbing up the grass blades, the short answer is this: it is ...

The yellow blob that you see in the picture at left is a slime mold, a strange one-cell organism that lives in damp, shadowy areas on the forest floor where it slowly navigates its environment, ...

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 ...