This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. Enter The Blob—a yellowish chunk of slime mold set to make its debut at the Paris Zoological Park on Saturday. With nearly 720 sexes, and the ability 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 ...

If you’re a mountain biker, then you are no doubt aware of the increasing popularity of tubeless tires. For the uninitiated, these are tires that have no inner tubes, but that are instead partially ...

You don’t need a brain to learn something new – not if you’re a slime mould, anyway. Scientists who watched Physarum polycephalum search for food found that the slime mould could learn to ignore ...

Slime molds don't have brains, but they're smarter than you think. If placed in a maze with a piece of food at the end, slime molds will find the shortest path to the food. Related Topics: Brain, ...