Welcome to the world of slime mould. These images, captured by photographer Barry Webb, provide a close-up view of ...

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 ...

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The bare woods of late fall in Westborough harbor odd forms of life known as slime molds, including those with strange, descriptive names like wolf’s milk slime and pretzel slime. A glimpse of these ...

Several homeowners recently submitted photos of strange things occurring in their landscapes. The photos show frothy blobs of some alien creature on their plants or creeping over mulch. If you ...

An artist captures the electricity activity of a slime mold and converts it to music. If it starts a band with other slime molds, they better call themselves the Slime Mold Beatles. CNET freelancer ...

I probably shouldn’t get quite so excited about the life I find in my wood pile. I was all set to write about baby turtles this week when, while neatening up the debris from last year’s wood pile, I ...

Smarty-pants slime molds can solve mazes and produce diagrams similar to the Tokyo rail system—and now, scientists suggest, they may also be able to help treat cancer. Biophysicists in Germany and ...

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 ...

Q: After the recent rain showers which I am so happy to receive, there is a strange pinkish-orange slime in my garden which looks unsettlingly like my dog couldn’t keep his meal down. It’s pretty ...

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 ...

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