Prepare to have perspectives shattered by the extraordinary biology of slime mold, one of nature’s strangest and most ...

The species in question, a bright yellow "slime mold" called Physarum polycephalum, has officially rebranded itself as "the blob," and is currently headlining its own exhibit at the Paris Zoo.

I was confused, because the blob was not at all mysterious. The photo clearly showed a slime mold. In fact, the photo caption even said it was Physarum polycephalum. That’s not even a new slime ...

For three years and counting, in fact. Now, another gross yet fascinating sample of yuck has made its way to the ISS: a “blob” of slime mold that’s eerily good at basic forms of learning and ...

Oats, in particular, are a blob delicacy. It also boasts more than 700 different sexual types, a reproductive strategy to prevent the organisms from mating with each other. The slime mold ...

This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. Enter The Blob—a yellowish chunk of slime mold set to make its debut at the Paris Zoological Park on Saturday. With nearly 720 sexes, and the ability ...

“Le Blob,” to be exact. To survive the tests of all that time, slime molds have developed some specific, surprising abilities — like investigating their surroundings, reproducing when they ...

The Blob is heading to space: Nasa's sending a slime mould to the ISS to help study the effects of the environment on board Forget astronauts and rockets, Nasa's getting ready to send a brainless ...

The Paris Zoological Park has added a brand-new blob to their collection ... Technically, it's called a slime mold (aka, Physarum polycephalum) — a single-celled organism capable of growing ...

That movie, The Blob, involves a goo that crashes down to Earth, and McQueen as a tough teen who tries to warn others of the encroaching sentient slime. (And it features plenty of outdated gender ...