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 ...

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".

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 ...

Straddling the boundary between science and art, Fedorova – who works under the name Dasha Plesen – collects strains of bacteria, fungi, and slime molds and uses them to inoculate Petri dishes ...

It plotted routes from city to city, spreading from New York City to other urban centers, represented as clusters of rolled oats on a petri dish. Over and over, the slime mold retraced our steps: ...

The four dormant samples of slime mold were part of the 8,200 pounds of crew supplies and science ... A camera will observe the four Petri dishes of slime molds on the ISS to see how they will ...