Imagine a creature that can solve puzzles without thinking, remember paths without neurons, and learn from experience without ...

These are slime molds, or myxomycetes (myxos), of the kingdom Protoctista, the least understood of the five kingdoms of life, the others being animals, plants, fungi and bacteria (Smithsonian ...

There are thousands of species of fungus in the city, with names like American dyeball, dingy twiglet and devil’s dipstick.

A form of spatial memory helps a brainless slime mold navigate complex environments, hinting at the possible origins of memory in higher organisms. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with ...

Slime molds have lived on Earth since long before the emergence of the human species. As single-celled organisms, slime molds do not have brains or nerves. And yet, they have ways of processing ...

Type specimen of the slime mould Badhimia foliicola. Collected by Arthur Lister, together with his daughter Guillerma. Arthur Lister is the author of the book: A monograph of the Mycetozoa: a ...

Slime-mold amoebae are free-living microorganisms that periodically gather together to form macroscopic fruiting bodies. It now seems several that secreted gases play several important roles in ...

Slime molds, unassuming blob-like entities that have spent hundreds of millions of years on our planet, defy everything we think we know about intelligence and curiosity. These single-celled ...

Features of both plants and animals are present in slime molds. Minakata became an expert on these mysterious organisms. Peter Barakan searches for slime molds in the Kumano forest. Conserving the ...