When Barry Webb is crawling around on the forest floor with a flashlight, passersby understandably give him strange looks. After all, the U.K.-based photographer is looking for something others might ...

In a study released last week, computer scientist Selim Akl of Queens University demonstrated that slime mold is fantastically efficient at finding the quickest route to food. When he placed rolled ...

Slime mold has one of the worst public images of any single-celled organism. For one thing, the Physarum polycephalum, as it's scientifically called, has a gross nickname evoking a drippy texture and ...

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Omer Gokcumen receives funding from National Science Foundation. But while slime is essential for all forms of complex life, its evolutionary origins have remained murky. Slime is made up of proteins ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Omer Gokcumen is an associate professor of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo. Slime is everywhere. It shapes the consistency of your ...

Slime, slime, slime, slime, slime. Fluffy slime, glossy slime, galaxy slime, pearl slime. Glitter slime, soft-serve slime, butter slime, floam. Are you the parent of a 9-year-old girl anywhere in the ...

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Scientists have created a moving magnetic slime capable of encircling smaller objects, self-healing and “very large deformation” to squeeze and travel through narrow spaces. The slime, which is ...

I devoted this month's (first Sunday) Food Matters column in the San Francisco Chronicle to the current hot-button issue, pink slime. I keep hearing about pink slime being fed to school kids. How ...