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Astronomers have gotten creative in trying to trace the elusive cosmic web, the large-scale backbone of the cosmos. Researchers turned to slime mold, a single-cell organism found on Earth, to help ...

Karina Garcia rose to YouTube stardom for her creative homemade slime videos. — -- Do-it-yourself YouTube star Karina Garcia, who rose to fame for her creative homemade slime-making videos, ...

A slime mold algorithm helped map the universe's cosmic web. This algorithm mimics how slime molds find food, connecting galaxies like "food sources." The map reveals how galaxies connect within the ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

Consider the cosmos: There are around 100 billion galaxies in the vast universe, all teeming with stars, planets, and dust. The myriad galaxies are connected together through a giant cosmic web made ...

The food-seeking behavior of a simple organism is helping astronomers trace the universe’s vast cosmic web, dark matter and all. A brainless, single-celled organism with a knack for finding food is ...