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 ...

Mireta wants to translate slime mold’s superpowers into algorithms that might help improve transit times, alleviate congestion, and more.

July 15 (UPI) --Can you think without a brain? According to a new study, slime molds can. Slime molds are without central nervous systems, but they are able sense tactile, chemical, and optical ...

In 1996 Spanish physicist Juan Parrondo made an incredible discovery: sometimes two games that each end in loss individually ...

Slime molds have been popping up in the news quite a bit lately. A few weeks ago, they made headlines by mimicking the Japanese rail system. Now, a paper published in the Proceedings of the National ...

A brainless slime mold known as Physarum polycephalum uses its body to sense mechanical cues in its environment. Then, in a process similar to what we consider 'thinking', they decide on the best ...

Made up of just a single cell and lacking any brain, or even any neurons and connections for that matter, you wouldn’t think much of the humble slime mold. But these creatures seem to display quite ...

The cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum is a soil microbe that produces diverse natural products with potential ...

I was on my regular Duluth dog walk last week when I spotted this in a neighbor’s mulch. I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure this is a slime mold – specifically, “dog vomit” slime mold: Fuligo septica.

There is nothing wrong with your tree that I can see from looking at the photo. The mass on the ground in the photo looks like dog vomit slime mold that is starting to dry up. Slime molds, of which ...

Root-knot nematodes (RKNs) are worm-like parasites of the genus Meloidogyne that are found in many parts of the world. They attack the roots of plants, causing them to wilt and eventually die. It is ...

“I found an odd-looking substance in my mulched beds next to a boxwood last week. This garden bed was replanted a few weeks ago and mulched with shredded bark. At first, I thought my dog had been sick ...