HONG KONG - Imagine a piece of slime slithering through your body, making its way through your small intestine to give surgeons "an extra hand." That's exactly what Professor Li Zhang and his team of ...

Scientists working at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have created something that looks horrifying, and only gets more upsetting when you learn it's designed to crawl around inside your body. The ...

Last Saturday, the Paris Zoological Park unveiled a new specimen, and even though it’s at the zoo, it’s not an animal. It’s called a slime mold, and it’s probably the coolest organism you’ve never ...

Researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong have created a ‘magnetic slime robot’ which they hope one day will be used to retrieve objects accidentally swallowed by humans. It can be ...

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From movement to mating signals, slug slime plays a vital role in survival and explains those silvery garden trails.

I was on my regular Duluth dog walk last week when I spotted this in a neighbor’s mulch. I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure this is a slime mold – specifically, “dog vomit” slime mold: Fuligo septica.

In HBO’s post-apocalyptic drama The Last of Us, human civilisation has fallen in the face of a fungal takeover triggered by climate change. The show’s opening credits and creature designs are inspired ...