There are a lot of super-engaging, ultra-cool diversions in this world, from video games to board games to artistic pursuits. But let's be perfectly honest: few of them truly gloop or glop when you ...

NEW YORK — A single-celled, amoebalike creature called a slime mold is capable of navigating through a maze to food, despite lacking a brain. The slime mold leaves behind a trail of goo as it oozes ...

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 ...

In Slime: A Natural History, science journalist Susanne Wedlich preempts her readers’ repulsion. Although “we are all creatures of slime,” she writes on page 2, the mere mention of the name connotes ...

Susanne Wedlich, trans. from the German by Ayça Türkoglu. Melville House, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-68589-020-9 Journalist and biologist Wedlich debuts with a slick dive into the “secret world” of ...

Most people have a natural aversion to slime, said Simon Ings in The Times. Yet according to the German biologist Susanne Wedlich, this wondrous substance deserves closer attention. Slime, she tells ...

Green slime is practically synonymous with Nickelodeon: The icky substance is the ultimate symbol of the kids’ television network. It can found anywhere that carries the studio’s logo, from ...