Meet the charismatic slime mold Physarum—which can learn, make decisions, and go through mazes without a brain—and the researchers studying it.

Like all slime molds, Physarum polycephalum has no brain or nervous system—yet it somehow “remembers” food sites for future reference. In a new paper, biophysicists Mirna Kramar and Karen Alim of the ...

NEW YORK — A single-celled, amoebalike creature called a slime mold is capable of navigating through a maze to food, despite lacking a brain. The slime mold leaves behind a trail of goo as it oozes ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) just launched brainless bits of slime mold to the International Space Station to study how the single-celled organism’s behavior is affected by microgravity. The ...

A neon-yellow slime mold can store memories, even though it lacks a nervous system. Now, scientists have found a new clue as to how the brainless blob manages this impressive feat. When fused, the ...

Slime research may not be the sexiest science, but produces some truly wild results. So wild, in fact, a new study reconfigures our understanding of not only animal intelligence, but also the very ...

What could human engineers possibly learn from the lowly slime mold? Reliable, cost-efficient network construction, apparently: a recent experiment suggests that Physarum polycephalum, a gelatinous ...