A Parisian zoo has opened an unusual new exhibit: a blob of slime mold with almost 720 sexes.

Slime Mold Smart Watch Interaction Graphic Photo: Jasmine Lu and Pedro Lopes “Throughout the project we got comparisons and kept going back to the idea of the Tamagotchi.

By Ellie Katz A few years ago, Jasmine Lu was just starting her PhD program in computer science at the University of Chicago.

They have no brain, no nervous system, and no limbs – yet slime molds can solve mazes, optimize networks, and adapt to ...

Humans are very good at anthropomorphising things. That is, giving them human characteristics, like ourselves. We do it with animals—see just about any cartoon—and we even do it with our own ...

When thriving, the slime mold grows and eventually bridges a gap to become a living wire that conducts power to the smartwatch’s heart rate sensor, enabling the device’s advanced health ...

Scientists who placed a piece of Physarum polycephalum, an amoeba-like organism, in a maze were astonished when the slime stretched out its entire body along the shortest possible route to reach ...

Is it an animal? A type of fungi? No, it's "the blob." The amorphous "slime mold" may not have a nervous system, but it's the star of a new exhibit at the Paris zoo.

The slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum, found in most warm parts of the world, has an unusual life cycle. Most of the time Dicytostelium cells are "happy" single cells that hang out and eat ...