Slime molds are yellow, oozing, amoeba-like organisms often found on decaying logs and in moist areas. They have no neurons ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sixteen years ago, a brainless, unicellular organism blew our human minds. And it continues to fascinate and surprise researchers ...

With all the recent wet weather, conspicuous, neon yellow masses have appeared on bark mulches and lawns. These brightly colored blobs, called plasmodia, are unique organisms called slime molds. The ...

During a time of year when most people look to the sky, tracking northern lights and smoky fires, many Inland Northwest residents will remember the summer of 2004 more for a rash of yellow blobs that ...

“Because slime molds are totally other, it means that they can potentially serve as outsiders, where they don’t have any inherent human biases, and we can all come around to observing their behavior ...

Early morning is a great time to observe many of the wonders of nature. Recently, one such wonder, a colorful slime mold, was observed in the mulch of an ornamental bed at a local business. Spring ...

Bees? Great. Ants? Hit or miss. Slime mold amoebas? Fail. Though nature offers excellent design inspirations in some information technology systems, in other systems, it can bomb. Known for his work ...

Research on memristors has become popular due to their potential application in logic and memory devices. There is, however, no such thing as a standard memristor -- different designs can implement ...

The Cheating Amoeba Scanning electron micrograph of spore towers of the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. David Scharf / Photo Researchers, Inc What genes contribute to social interactions such as ...