No, it’s not a Rorschach inkblot: This image captures two single-celled organisms having a chat. Individual members of Physarum polycephalum, which in nature clump together by the thousands to form a ...

Researchers have sent a problem-solving slime mold to the International Space Station so students can study its behavior in microgravity. The post Problem-Solving Slime Mold Blob Has Arrived on ...

An artist captures the electricity activity of a slime mold and converts it ... Lab. Garcia told Wired Magazine he hooked electrodes up to the slime mold in a petri dish and recorded the ...

The slime mold Physarum polycephalum consists of a single biological cell. Because of his ingenious ability to adapt his tubular network to a changing environment, he has been called "intelligent".

In the lab, scientists placed slime molds in the center of gel-coated Petri dishes. Researchers also placed wither one or three small glass discs next to each other on opposite sides of each dish.

The yellow slime mold Physarum polycephalum exploring a petri dish. Slime deposits to the left of the image tell the slime mold where it has previously explored. Photo by: Audrey Dussutour. How do ...

Keats and Dobro laid out two scenarios in different Petri dishes. Each dish was divided in half, with a slime mold on either side, ...

As soon as you videotape it, and you record its behavior it suddenly looks super interesting. When it’s running around the petri dish, when the experiment is finished, sometimes you project yourself ...

Slime Molds Are Picky About Where to Eat, ... In the recent study, scientists placed 11 different foods around the outside of a Petri dish, each with a different protein-to-carbohydrate ratio. They ...

Gardeners sometimes encounter them in their backyards—spongy yellow masses squatting in the dirt or slowly swallowing wood chips. Hikers often spot them clinging to the sides of rotting logs ...