Not a day goes by that I do not think of the wonder and almost spiritual brilliance of mushrooms and other fungi, because I am an ant and an invasive fungus has taken control of my brain. For the rest ...

THOUGH they may resemble something from another planet, these strange, mushroom-like structures are in fact the reproductive phase of Physarum album, a slime mould species that feeds on bacteria on ...

British computer scientists are taking inspiration from slime to help them find ways to calculate the shape of a polygon linking points on a surface. Such calculations are fundamental to creating ...

Even slime moulds have ‘brains’: a series of tubes that expand and contract to provide a memory of where food is located. Slime moulds (Physarum polycephalum) are single-celled organisms that can ...

Slime mold, often called Dog's vomit slime mold, not a fungus but an amoeba-like organism that engulfs bacteria and other prey with its pseudopods. Getty Images Were you stuck in a jam on the way to ...

Sticky trails of sugar and protein secreted by slime moulds help the single-celled organisms to find their way, by marking where they have previously travelled. Christopher Reid at the University of ...

A SLIMY road planner has rearranged the UK’s motorway network – and all in exchange for a hearty meal. A corrupt politician at work? No, it’s Physarum polycephalum, a yellow slime mould normally found ...

Fungus-like slime mould could help engineers design computer and mobile communication networks, a new report says. Scientists drew this conclusion after observing a slime mould as it grew to form a ...

Once you’ve seen a slime mold—its gooey, delicately branching structure oozing in a vaguely unsettling way along a log or leaf—you’re unlikely to forget it. They’re unmistakable because there’s ...

Can you have a memory if you don't have a brain? The question has been answered with the discovery that brainless slime moulds use excreted chemicals as a memory system. The finding by University of ...