Last August scientists confirmed clumps of bacteria have no problem surviving on the outside of the International Space Station. For three years and counting, in fact. Now, another gross yet ...
Designing autonomous robots that collectively solve complex tasks requires innovations in both hardware and software. Inspired by the behavior of slime mold (Physarum polycephalum), which demonstrates ...
You wouldn’t know it just by gazing at its yellowish veins of matter, but the blob is perhaps the most cunning brainless organism on the planet. The single-cell slime mold, which lacks a nervous ...
The Paris Zoological Park has added a brand-new blob to their collection. No, it's not a jellyfish. It's not even an animal, really — more like a living pile of old yellow silly string with a powerful ...
You wouldn’t know it just by gazing at its yellowish veins of matter, but the blob is perhaps the most cunning brainless organism on the planet. The single-cell slime mold, which lacks a nervous ...
The slime mold Physarum polycephalum growing in a petri dish. (Photo by Nirosha Murugan, Levin lab, Tufts University and Wyss Institute at Harvard University via Courthouse News) (CN) — Researchers ...
Sixty-five years ago this month, an iconic horror movie made a star out of Steve McQueen and showed disappointingly little of its titular character. That movie, The Blob, involves a goo that crashes ...